Exercise: Positioning the horizon
This exercise requires a few photographs in which the horizon is placed in different parts of the frame: central, high and low.
First photo, with the horizon placed centrally, looks nice with the white clouds and beautiful blue and green colors of the sky and water, but it just gives the impression that it is cut in half by the horizon line.
Photo 1
Second photograph, with the horizon placed low in the frame, emphasizes the sky color and clouds formations. Unfortunately, the clouds are very low and there is a little too much sky...
Photo 2
In the third photo, the horizon placed high, gives more perspective, but I think the body of water between the horizon line and the shore looks too empty and dull. It needs some more detail. And the sky looks like it needs a little more space above.
Photo 3
In the fourth photo the horizon is still placed centrally, but I added some clear foreground detail, as it is shown in the course. And indeed the impression of a static image changed.
Photo 4
It was another useful exercise, which helped me become more aware of the arrangement of the objects in the frame. And although I had the same feeling, that a centrally placed horizon would make the image static, I learned that placing foreground detail changes everything.
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