The final exercise of this project makes use of the viewfinder grid display of a digital camera. This function projects a grid onto the viewfinder screen to help align vertical and horizontal lines, such as the horizon or the edge of a building, with the edge of the frame. Please check your camera manual (or Google search) for how to display the grid in your viewfinder. If your camera doesn’t have a grid display, just imagine a simple division of the viewfinder into four sections.
Take a good number of shots, composing each shot within a single section of the viewfinder grid. Don’t bother about the rest of the frame! Use any combination of grid section, subject and viewpoint you choose.
When you review the shots evaluate the whole frame not just the part you’ve composed. Looking at a frame calmly and without hurry may eventually reveal a visual coalescence, a ‘gestalt’.
Gestalt: an organised whole perceived as more than a sum of its parts. (Google Search using the define: operator)
Select six or eight images that you feel work both individually and as a set and present them as a single composite image. Add to your learning log together with technical information such as camera settings and two or three lines containing your thoughts and observations.
Gesalt
Images used
Reflection
So this exercise helped me to understand how important it is not to stick in the rules, but to experiment, to try new positions for the subject, to put it in different parts of the frame, sometimes to imbalance the picture, to achieve certain result cohesive result.
For this exercise I just went out and photographed a number of trivial and maybe stupid things without thinking too much about the subject(harder than you think!!). The form of the objects was more important in the majority of the images and these seemed to be the stronger images than the more generic ones.
Keeping the images all monochrome helps form a relationship between the images and adds to the coherence of what individually seem like random images.
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