Notice the horizon line is just below the top of her shoulders.īreaking a horizontal line is easily achieved with vertical lines, other shapes or objects in the scene, or even placing a person in the scene. Rebecca stands under a SUN-SWATTER and is illuminated with a SUNBOUNCE MINI fitted with the SPARKLING SUN fabric. We’re just used to the predominance of horizontal in our everyday life, perhaps this is why photographers often overlook the importance of horizontal placements in their photos and why most non-professional photographers tend to shoot more horizontals than verticals.
Think of geometric shapes that surround us, a loaf of bread, a car, a couch, the television set, even calendars meant to view over a long period of time and our world is filled with horizontal rectangles all around us. This is one reason, besides shelf-space, that magazines and books tend to take on a more powerful vertical perspective-vertical is not only phallic, but not the norm for things around us in our daily lives. This repetitive perspective, especially since our human view through our eyes is horizontal and things like a television or computer monitor are traditionally horizontal too, horizontal basically becomes boring. Our brains are traditionally programmed to the horizontal perspective as every day the sun rises from the horizon and sets in the horizon and because of that, this photo could pass as a sunrise or sunset photo.
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