One of the cardinal rules of photography is to not place your main subject in the middle of your frame. It’s all part of that asymmetry stuff that you learned in high school art classes. If you’ve found a photo with a dead-centered subject that you love, but it doesn’t look quite right, try cropping it with your subject off-centered and see if you like it more. The beauty with digital is that you can try several different ways to see what looks the best and even ask family, friends, or perfect strangers which they like the most.
IN A NEW POST CREATED FOR THIS CHALLENGE, SHARE A PHOTO OR TWO WITH THE SUBJECT OFF-CENTER.
Everyone is welcome to participate, even if your blog isn’t about photography.
Here’s how it works:
- Each week, I’ll come up with a theme and post a photo that I think fits. You take photographs based on your interpretation of the theme, and post them on your blog (a new post!) anytime before the following Thursday, when the next photo theme will be announced.
- To make it easy for others to check out your photos, title your blog post “A Photo a Week Challenge: (theme of the week)” and be sure to use the “postaday″ tag.
- Follow nancy merrill photography so that you don’t miss out on weekly challenge announcements.
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I like this, Nancy. If I were this young man or his family, I’d love this portrait.
janet
Thanks. He’s my nephew and a graduating senior.
It will be up right after midnight. We should make up a list of “rules” and why they aren’t really rules. More like “good advice, sometimes.”
That’s true. When I was taking music theory classes in college, my professor told us that we were learning all of the counterpoint rules so that when we broke them, we knew why and how.
I’m with Marylin here. Off-centre can work. But dead-centre can work, too. But you’re right – digital photography allows for experimentation. I have a friend who insists on analog photography if she takes “serious” photos (whatever that is supposed to mean, in her case, I think, it’s shots she thinks about first) – which is ok I guess, if you do photos of non-moving subjects. But I prefer the freedom that editing gives me. Who says that the after-processing is less creative than the actual taking of a photo?
And your portrait in landscape format looks great!
Thanks. I agree that centering subjects have their place, too. 😊
A small selection from recent months:
https://davidmsphotoblog.com/2021/02/23/off-centre/
I enrolled in a photography class, after using a camera for a LONG time, so I haven’t posted much here. This week’s challenge fit the class assignment, so… I’m Baaaaack lol
https://joeslens.wordpress.com/2021/02/23/a-photo-a-week-challenge-off-center/
There is a smile in his eyes 🙂
https://mukhamani.wordpress.com/2021/02/24/a-photo-a-week-challenge-off-center/
He’s a super happy person. 🙂
Placement, such as off-center, can make all the difference. I really like your example with the portrait shot.
My contribution:
https://oneletterup.com/2021/02/24/wordless-wednesday-100/
Thanks!
You’re welcome.
You have a wonderful photo for your topic. 😀 😀
Here is my entry. Enjoy!
https://ceenphotography.com/2021/02/24/a-photo-a-week-challenge-off-center-2/
Thanks, Cee!
Fantastic portrait, Nancy 👏 You can take a real guess at his character from your pic 😃 Here’s mine: https://jezbraithwaite.blog/2021/02/25/a-photo-a-week-challenge-off-center/
Great theme and photo Nancy 🙂 :)_
Lovely portrait!
My late link, it’s because I start my week on Thursday:) My off center is the last tree in my post. Have a great weekend! Jesh https://wp.me/p9EWyp-2Ki
Great portrait!
Here is my first entry to you challenges:
https://wanderlustig2019.wordpress.com/2021/02/26/a-photo-a-week-challenge-off-center/
Thank you for the inspiration 😊.