Example 6: Spring

BEFORE SHOT:

This image is again centralised around the main object, the flower. It's blossom is straight in the centre of the image, while it cuts the horinzontal meadow/street line. It does put the flower in a rather weak position towards the rather detailed background.

AFTER SHOT:

In this image, the flower was moved to the lower left intersection point. Furthermore the image is in much closer proximity to the object, increasing the relative distance of object and background to the lense, resulting in blur of the latter. By this the flower dominates the background unlike in the first image.

Example 5: Churchtower

BEFORE SHOT:

In this example, the church was photographed against the sun to have a contrast between the sky and the shade of the church. This first image again has the horizont line centralised, still leaving enough light in the picture to see some details of the building in front of the church. Furthermore some sunrays shine into the picture, leaving a few blurry parts and not proviving the wanted contrast.

AFTER SHOT 1:

By moving the building to the lower sections of the image, there is now much light coming towards the lense so that sensitivity decreased. This 'darkening' of the picture allows the sunrays as well as the building details to dissappear, so that the shade is now in sharp contrast to the brighter sky. Furthermore the small tower is at on of the intersection point.

AFTER SHOT 2:

Here again the layout was changed and adopted vertically. The image features similar characteristics than the one above (darkening, contrast). This perspective however changes the image in two further ways. First of all, the sky bit is even more dominant, by having a large share even above the tower and the cloud formation makes the scene seem almost dramatic. Second, the main tower has now been moved away from the centralised vertical line towards the right end and is now positioned along a compositional one. This shifts attention to the tower, emphasising it as the principal object in this image.

Example 4: Lonely Tree

BEFORE SHOT:

In this image, the tree is centralised in the picture as well as the horizontal line between ground and sky. Again the main object (the tree) looks rather static and as being an insignificant part of a smaller meadow. Furthmore the thin branches seem to almost blur into the brighter sky backdround.

AFTER SHOT1:

In this image the tree has moved towards the left section of the image, making the meadows seem much greater and as a consequence showing this tree as being rather an exception on this ground, which raises its significance.

AFTER SHOT2:

Finally, when the image is recorded vertically, the tree can even be more emphasised. This time not so much in relation to the flat grass land, but rather as an obstacle under the sky. This was accomplished by also lowering the horizontal line, leaving a much greater window for the sky to appear. The contrast from the branches appease also sharper. Eventually, the lower perspective of taking the image also make it appear bigger, as does the 'vertical' layout, which shifts significance away from the horizontal aspects (the ground/sky line) toward vertical ones.

Example 3: Backstreet by Night

BEFORE SHOT:

This image is centralised, as the main source of light (it's a theatre) combines the centre of the image with the vanishing point of the houses and street. It makes the street appear very narrow and static. Furthermore the block of houses on the right side stretches into the vertical centre of the image, making it a main object in the picture by great detail especially for the closer sections.

AFTER SHOT:

In this shot, the central point (the theatre lights) have been moved to one of the intersection points (the lower right one) and also shifted the vanishing point there. According to the Rule of Thirds, now the street (including the cars) occupies only the bottom part of the picture, while also leaving the upper part for the sky. The change of perspective makes the street appear to be much wider and furthermore takes away the unecessary detail of the block that was present above. Therefore this image looks much more dynamic.

Example 2: Raindrops

BEFORE SHOT:

The raindrops on the roof of the car appear blurred, because the image is divided into two seperate part that are equal in size, divided by a centralised horizontal line (the roof). Due to that it it is not clear as to where the focus is on in this image. Since the roof was in very close proximity to the lense and the background houses in a relatively much greater distance, the lense could not adjust to one distance and depict it sharply.

AFTER SHOT:

Using compositional rules, the foreground (the car roof) now occupies a much larger part of the image, therefore putting an emphasis on the raindrops while neglecting the background. Because of that emphasis the drops are much much more sharply represented. Additonally, the two big drops are not centralised in the picture but positioned along a horizontal line of the bottom third, with one of them even being close to the lower-left intersection point. Due to the great relative increase in distance of the other raindrops, they still seem blurry, but the focus of this image is clearly concentrated on the foreground drops.

Example 1: Castle on the Rocks

BEFORE SHOT:

The castle and the rock it was built on are centralised on the picture. It does not look as a the fortress it used to be but rather like a couple of building ruins. Additionally the perspective leaves little cues as for the actual size. Since there are hardly any visible orientation lines that lead up to it (apart from the partial but insufficient fence) distance and thus size are hard to imagine.

AFTER SHOT:

By a change in perspective, the rock now occupies the two bottom parts of the picture making it appear much more gigantic. The 'main building' of the castle is now also in one of the intersection points, putting it in a much more dominant position. This is also enhanced by choosing a lower point of taking the image, putting the building in an almost 'superior' position to the viewer. Furthermore the path leading up to the castle is now visible, so that distance and size of the rock can be much more realistically imagined and ultimatively the advantages of such a site during medival battles (because that is what castle were built for).