Harmony? A sense of order? Predictability?
It’s hard to say why photographs with patterns are so pleasing. But they are. And that makes them a powerful compositional tool.
You have to train your eye to spot them.
Students in News Photography recently went on a photographic scavenger hunt to snap pictures of pleasing patterns.
They were required to find three. They returned with more. Some photos feature patterns with spacing. Others are more about color or texture.
Here’s what they discovered.
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