![]() You get a choice as to how much of the particular available colors and tones are in the composition and where they are positioned in the composition. As a photographer, you get to choose what elements are in your composition. What instruments are playing the notes to give a particular sound. ![]() How you choose to frame up your composition is like a musical conductor writing a piece of music and directing it with an orchestra. ![]() However, setting aside those thoughts, the simplest answer to create harmony in photographs is to work at creating your composition. So as an artist, how do I/you create harmony in photographs? Well, it depends □ It depends on the scene you’re shooting, the mood you are trying to capture, the weather conditions and the focal lengths you have available to you. It is a non-harmonious event that detracts from the harmony of the whole group. Have you ever been to a children’s concert and one of the kids plays a not horribly out of tune? It stands out and can draw your attention away from the beautiful harmony being created by the other kids. There is a sense of visual calm, even if it is a complex image, and there is no unsettledness when viewing it. In my experience, harmony in photographs is something that when you see the image, everything just looks “right” and it “feels” right. There is no element (tone, texture, shape) that stands as incongruous with the others. There is no one element that stands above the rest. So, a quick distillation of this concept is that some of the best compositions are when all of the colors, shapes, visual weight and points of interest in a photograph are in harmony. the simultaneous combination of shapes, tones or textures, especially when blended into a composition pleasing to the eye. any simultaneous combination of shapes, tones or textures. Now, replace some of the words with ones that are applicable to photography and the visual arts….a consistent, orderly, or pleasing arrangement of parts congruity. the simultaneous combination of tones, especially when blended into chords pleasing to the ear chordal structure, as distinguished from melody and rhythm. One definition of harmony is…a consistent, orderly, or pleasing arrangement of parts congruity. Harmony is a word that came up recently when I was reading an article about one of the great musical pieces and it got me thinking about how this concept applies to photography. What does it mean to have harmony in photographs? This is something I’ve been thinking about lately as I work to verbalize some of my thoughts around the art of composition.
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