{"id":42214,"date":"2017-03-05T21:39:52","date_gmt":"2017-03-06T05:39:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/?page_id=42214"},"modified":"2017-03-06T00:01:12","modified_gmt":"2017-03-06T08:01:12","slug":"leonardo-composition","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/leonardo-composition\/","title":{"rendered":"Leonardo Composition"},"content":{"rendered":"

Great compositions from Leonardo da Vinci<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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John the Baptist<\/h2>\n

Great dynamism in this portrait of John the Baptist by Leonardo– I love the gesture of the finger in the air, and the coy look of John the Baptist:<\/p>\n

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Let’s break down what makes this portrait great:<\/p>\n

Let’s crop it in first, and examine the hand gestures:<\/p>\n

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Looking in different directions:<\/h2>\n

Dynamic directions with faces, moves your eyes around the frame:<\/p>\n

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What makes a great portrait? Lessons from Leonardo da Vinci:<\/h2>\n

I’m trying to understand what makes a great portrait. Or how to capture someone’s soul in an image.<\/p>\n

I came across this drawing by Leonardo da Vinci, and was compelled. It looks like she is staring into my soul. I can also feel her soul, through her gaze.<\/p>\n

But what makes the image so compelling? Is it her eyes, her nose, her lips, or something else?<\/p>\n

Let me break down some ideas:<\/p>\n

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Head of a girl<\/h2>\n

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What makes the look of the girl so intriguing? To figure it out, I cropped out certain details.<\/p>\n

For example, is it her eye that is intriguing?<\/p>\n

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Not really, the eye by itself doesn’t say much.<\/p>\n

Is it both eyes?<\/p>\n

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Not really.<\/p>\n

Is it her eyes, and her lips?<\/p>\n

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I don’t think either — it can either belong to a man or a woman.<\/p>\n

Honestly, I think beauty is a combination of everything. You cannot call someone beautiful, just based on their eyes, their lips, or other details.<\/p>\n

Capturing the soul of someone then must include all<\/em> their attributes of their face:<\/p>\n

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How to look coy<\/h2>\n

How do you make someone look coy? Have them look down:<\/p>\n

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Composition<\/h2>\n

Check out this study for the Last Supper; how he created his composition based on a circle.<\/p>\n

Perhaps this has something to do with the ‘Golden Rule’ — or the ‘Divine Proportion.’<\/p>\n

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Great compositions from Leonardo da Vinci: John the Baptist Great dynamism in this portrait of John the Baptist by Leonardo– I love the gesture of the finger in the air, and the coy look of John the Baptist: Let’s break down what makes this portrait great: Let’s crop it in first, and examine the hand […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":42300,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-42214","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/42214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/42214\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}