Balance [People] {Week 5}

This week begins a new month of compositional study : Balance. We will be tackling first the use of people within the frame. Quite simply, balance is an issue of weight distribution and as a photographer you never want too much "people weight" on one side. Instead you want the viewer's eye to move about the photo with the visual weight evenly apportioned.

Below is an image I captured at the opening of the Museum of Natural History. The figure in the foreground and the sign are the counterweight to the line of people ascending the stairs. The staircase railings also cut the image into two balanced triangles.

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