How to Achieve Compositional Balance in Photography
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Loading... - Lucas Wilson
- 30 Jan 2023
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I was born in early October, under the seventh astrological zodiac sign of Libra, which has a symbol of balancing scales.
I don’t follow my daily horoscope because I don’t believe that my birth month and year can be used to predict things that will happen to me in the future. I do however display some of the character traits shared by most Librans. The greatest strength of Librans is our quest for balance, fairness, peace, and harmony, and we tend to live by the principles of democracy and compromise.
The symbol for Libra is balancing scales.
It is not surprising then, that I regard balance and harmony as the backbone of composition in photography. To me, a perfectly balanced composition is much more important than the “rule of thirds”, or ensuring a straight horizon, or any of the other (supposedly unbreakable) rules of composition.
So what is the definition of a perfectly balanced composition?
If we divide a photograph into two horizontal halves with an imaginary fulcrum in the middle, then a perfectly balanced composition is one where the sum of the visual weights of all the objects (compositional elements) in the left half of the image is exactly equal to the sum of the visual weights of the elements in the right half of the image. Read More…
