Do you know what juxtaposition in photography is?
May 20th 2008 09:36
Nicely positioned swans in relation to the water and to each other, it makes the point, doesn't it?
Juxtaposition is the placing of elements within a photo for the purpose of comparing or contrasting them.
Elements can be compared by placing side by side, on top or below each other, or layering them in the foreground, background or middleground.
It can also be achieved naturally, by catching the right images in landscape or any other type of photography.
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I had a wonderful photo of the white navy ensign, caught full blown in a spinnaker against the old sandstone walls of the curved Fort Denison on Sydney Harbour.
To catch these you need to be experienced, alert, prepared, positioned and generally fully automated to allow the camera to do the hard work for you, especially if you are on a moving object attempting to capture a moving object as if it and you are really still.
I doubt whether I'll find anything of that calibre on the web here, as no photographer worth his salt would willingly give such a photo away, they are usually rare events and many hours of photography and knowing one's subject needs to precede the successful image.
But skills, with application and the right composition capabilities and a sound knowledge of your camera, which in itself must be suitable and more likely to be in the high end of the camera range, can be achieved reasonably quickly, with a lot of work, and you do not have to have been taking photographs for years to achieve this, thanks to the automatic settings, computer controlled on your camera.
I've found some images on the web which will start you off in the right direction with respect to juxtaposition in photography.
A lot of these lack something in the photography skills, but you should be able to get a better idea of what I mean by juxtaposition, and it is demonstrated quite regularly in the photos I put up.
Next time I shall point some out to you, the more obvious ones, as often it is not only juxtaposition that is the sole feature of the photo.
That one was quite bizarre, wasn't it? But , it was effective.
That one was fairly obvious, wasn't it?
Poor imagery, or meant to be spooky, and they say the camera does not lie, not much.
Not brilliant photography but they serve well to illustrate a point, and they are effective.
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