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In this picture, the two objects don't seem to work together the way they were placed. 

In this picture, there are also two objects that are more to one side with empty space on the other side.

This is where I started to try to make things unbalanced. the objects are mostly all in one area to one side while the other has nothing to balance it out. 

The stapler is centered again in this picture with the water bottles evenly placed behind it. This photograph is almost symmetrical. 

In this one I turned the stapler sideways and placed it on my windowsill for the landscape kind of background behind it. I chose a smaller aperture for less depth of field so the focus would be on the object. It also isn't centered, but the buildings in the background and the part of the windowsill on the bottom help to balance the picture. 

Here I added more objects into the picture. The stapler is on the right of the photograph, but the other objects balance out the rest of the space. 

This is one of the first photographs I took. The stapler in centered and entire picture is divided evenly into thirds. 

VIsual Language Photos: Balance

For this assignment, I chose to photograph my stapler. I wanted to use a normal, everyday kind of object as opposed to something that might be considered cliche. I chose balance to be my principle. I started off as basic as I could, placing my subject exactly in the middle of my photograph. Then I started creating slightly more complicated compositions using other objects. For most of the time I had the camera set to manual so I could play around with the settings. The second half of the assignment was harder for me. I'm so used to automatically trying to make things look good that making them deliberately bad is difficult. I tried to photograph my stapler in situations that were more off-balance, and only succeeded half the time. It was hard for me to visualize off-balance compositions.