Ray12
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Hi all,
Trying to collect some advice, tips, studies, and ideas on how to guide or drive your viewer to look at certain parts of your images. How do you create a visually powerful or captivating image? What do you notice first in an image...and why? What elements make it that way? Can you intelligently guide your viewers attention to better emphasize your story?
I can start off with some typical ideas:
1. The viewers eyes and brain are usually drawn to the brighter parts of the image first. So, make sure your central point of focus is well lit... or visually highlighted... to draw attention and create a strong focus. Make your central viewpoint be ever so slightly brighter than its surround for visual impact.
2. The viewer usually looks at the eyes of your subject first. So, make sure the eyes are not in deep shadow, and have a catch light, and are easy to look into.
3. The viewer is usually attracted to lines and angles in an image most easily. So, Use leading lines to capture the viewers interest in an image when possible. In posing... make sure your model has her elbows out, her shoulders at an angle, the head slightly tilted, and the body not pointed straight at the camera etc. Ive heard the catch phrase..."If you want a captivating pose... slightly bend every joint that can be bent...love those Angles". Look at magazines...which poses are most powerful...and why???
4. Viewers brains and eyes are attracted to sharper parts of the image...rather than areas that are deeply out of focus. So, sharpen up areas of the image that you want viewers to concentrate on...and slightly blur areas in an image that you dont want the eyes dwelling on. So, use longer lenses, wider f-stops, or selective focus to blur a distracting background.
5. The eye/brain likes to look at areas that have contrast in them...so it can differentiate detail easier. So, add some contrast to certain areas of your shot... to draw attention to that particular area.
6. People usually feel that warmer colors are more attractive and more advancing than cooler colors. So, slightly warm up areas in a portrait or other kind or part of the shot... that you want your viewers to warm up to. Add an imperceptibly cool cast to parts of your image to force the eye into warmer areas of your image. Warm advances...cool recedes.
QUESTIONS FOR YOU TO ANSWER:
- Do you have some studies or references that you can point us to...on how to make images more captivating?
- Have you found techniques in your work that your customers just LOVE, LOVE, LOVE? What is it? What do people love to look at...and why?
- What do you do to make an image interesting, powerful, captivating, noteworthy, or sellable? What makes Your images or other Photographers images Powerful??
Thanks for adding your own unique piece or part of the story...
Ray
Trying to collect some advice, tips, studies, and ideas on how to guide or drive your viewer to look at certain parts of your images. How do you create a visually powerful or captivating image? What do you notice first in an image...and why? What elements make it that way? Can you intelligently guide your viewers attention to better emphasize your story?
I can start off with some typical ideas:
1. The viewers eyes and brain are usually drawn to the brighter parts of the image first. So, make sure your central point of focus is well lit... or visually highlighted... to draw attention and create a strong focus. Make your central viewpoint be ever so slightly brighter than its surround for visual impact.
2. The viewer usually looks at the eyes of your subject first. So, make sure the eyes are not in deep shadow, and have a catch light, and are easy to look into.
3. The viewer is usually attracted to lines and angles in an image most easily. So, Use leading lines to capture the viewers interest in an image when possible. In posing... make sure your model has her elbows out, her shoulders at an angle, the head slightly tilted, and the body not pointed straight at the camera etc. Ive heard the catch phrase..."If you want a captivating pose... slightly bend every joint that can be bent...love those Angles". Look at magazines...which poses are most powerful...and why???
4. Viewers brains and eyes are attracted to sharper parts of the image...rather than areas that are deeply out of focus. So, sharpen up areas of the image that you want viewers to concentrate on...and slightly blur areas in an image that you dont want the eyes dwelling on. So, use longer lenses, wider f-stops, or selective focus to blur a distracting background.
5. The eye/brain likes to look at areas that have contrast in them...so it can differentiate detail easier. So, add some contrast to certain areas of your shot... to draw attention to that particular area.
6. People usually feel that warmer colors are more attractive and more advancing than cooler colors. So, slightly warm up areas in a portrait or other kind or part of the shot... that you want your viewers to warm up to. Add an imperceptibly cool cast to parts of your image to force the eye into warmer areas of your image. Warm advances...cool recedes.
QUESTIONS FOR YOU TO ANSWER:
- Do you have some studies or references that you can point us to...on how to make images more captivating?
- Have you found techniques in your work that your customers just LOVE, LOVE, LOVE? What is it? What do people love to look at...and why?
- What do you do to make an image interesting, powerful, captivating, noteworthy, or sellable? What makes Your images or other Photographers images Powerful??
Thanks for adding your own unique piece or part of the story...
Ray
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