{"id":64830,"date":"2017-09-01T20:15:11","date_gmt":"2017-09-02T03:15:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/?p=64830"},"modified":"2017-09-01T20:22:51","modified_gmt":"2017-09-02T03:22:51","slug":"the-art-of-reading-pictures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2017\/09\/01\/the-art-of-reading-pictures\/","title":{"rendered":"The Art of Reading Pictures"},"content":{"rendered":"
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KUROSAWA<\/a> x KIM \/ Seven Samurai<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

There is an ‘art’ to reading pictures– not just looking at pictures.<\/p>\n

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Images traced of AKIRA KUROSAWA<\/a>, one of the masters of photography<\/a>, film, and cinema<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Reading a picture vs looking at picture.<\/h2>\n
\"Kurosawa
Kurosawa Seven Samurai<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

If you ‘read’ a picture– you analyze the picture, and try to figure out why<\/em> it works. You try to analyze the composition, see if there are any diagonals, spirals, etc.<\/p>\n

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Note the spacing of the subjects. KUROSAWA x KIM \/ Seven Samurai<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

You read a picture by trying to analyze how you look around the frame. You ask yourself questions like:<\/p>\n

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  • Who is the main subject in this picture?<\/li>\n
  • Is this picture interesting to me, or boring?<\/li>\n
  • If this picture is boring to me, why does the photographer like it? Does the photographer see something that I don’t see?<\/li>\n
  • What is happening in the foreground, middle-ground, and background?<\/li>\n
  • Are the elements in this picture overlapping, or not?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

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