I think it´s a great question, and why not ask it here, as well as
any other place...
My answer is: Use the composition!
Remember that most "rules" are aimed at obtaining harmonic, in many
ways static, pictures. Rules telling us that a person should be
looking/moving into the frame, you should avoid things breaking the
frame or being cut in two by the frame, place the subject according
to the golden section (I can´t remember the English term), the
horizon should be horizontal etc.
So, to get more dynamics you should start breaking these rules.
Leave objects half outside the frame to show the viewer that there is
a world outside the picture, let people show restlessness by looking
out or moving out of the picture, focus in unexpected parts of the
picture. Leave something slightly irritating in the picture.
I´ve been playing with these things for some time. It takes time,
because I don´t have the exact knowledge of how to control the
reaction, but sometimes I get pictures that seam to tell a story of
something more than harmony .-)
DagT
Den 28. mar. 2006 kl. 20.31 skrev Boris Liberman:
Hi!
Ladies and Gentlemen, perhaps it is time we spent some time talking
about photography and photographs rather than processes, work flows
and what not.
Recently my attention was brought to a fact that most of my
photographs are very static... They seem to be some kind of
documentation of the process/moment/event/scene or just a frozen
moment in time, static and disconnected from previous and next
moments...
I wonder what kind of advise I would get from my fellow PDMLers if
I were to ask you - how could I make my photography slightly more
dynamic...
Thanks.
Boris
