When might we break the rules? A statistical analysis of aesthetics in photographs.

ABSTRACT: High-quality photographs often follow certain high-level rules well known to photographers, but some photographs intentionally break these rules. Doing so is usually a matter of artistry and intuition, and the conditions and patterns that allow for rule-breaks are often not well articulated by photographers. This article first applies statistical techniques to help find and evaluate rule-breaking photographs, and then from these photographs discover those patterns that justify their rule-breaking. With this approach, this article discovered some significant patterns that explain why some high-quality photographs successfully break the common photographic rules by positioning the subject in the center or the horizon in the vertical center. These patterns included reflections, leading lines,

SUBMITTER: Wang J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9249203 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature