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Understanding when to use image review

Understanding when to use image review

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Understanding when to use image review

- It occurs to me that after three movies there's no way that the image that I've been building here could live up to the hype. I mean, this is so, I just want to prepare you, this is not some great photographic feat that I've pulled off here. Here's the picture that I took, very basic picture of a flower. What's important here is to notice the way that I balanced the frame. I found this flower way in the background and put it in the opposite corner. So I'm balancing these two corners against each other, and what's interesting about that is that when I'm standing here in the real world, I don't think of those two flowers as being related to each other in any way because one's farther away than this one. This is part of the power of photographic composition, we take the three dimensional world and we squish it flat, down to a two dimensional plane. So I can make things graphically equal that in the real world are in completely different planes of existence. This is an important thing…

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