Gold Marc Adamus - Artistic Philosophy

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Someone watched the Course and can explain the 45° Rule to me? I don`t understand what he means, because sometimes he doesn`t express himself right :/

 

Here my explanation, HTH.
If you use a wide angle lens, you can create a pull-in effect, if you put elements to the most distorted parts (close to the frame edges). F.e. a vertical line will be distorted by the lens, pointing towards the center of the frame, directing the viewer's eye into the scene.
The same distortion works for you to fill the foreground, if you choose your shooting position carefully. If you set your lens in a way that is looks 45° to the foreground subject, it's going to be larger, filling the space. F.e. if you have a 7 cm tall flower, you should set your camera so that it's 7 cm from the ground and the front lens is 7 cm far from the flower (see figure below: the left vertical is the flower, the 45° corner on the right is your camera's front lens). If you however choose a tighter angle like 10-20°, the flowers won't appear "blown up", don't stand out, so you loose foreground interest.


Some examples from his gallery:
https://www.marcadamus.com/images/xl/Mystic-Park-2015.jpg
https://www.marcadamus.com/images/xl/Before-Us-Minus-Final-i.jpg

 

Thank you for your effort, really appreciate your help
I tryed this myself some weeks ago and watched the video again.

The Distance (in your example 7cm) is not correct when you go from the Ground? It should be more like: 7cm Flower High? = Get your Lens 7cm high from the Top of your Flower. Logically if your flower is 7cm high and you go from the Ground 7cm high, it will be on eye-level with the flower In some part of the Video he also says "Stream xy cm wide? = Get your camera xy high + far away to get the angle.

In the first example from his Website, the Angle really don`t look like a 45° angle. When i understood it right - like he mentioned in the Video 20° and 65° - The Angle of your Lens from the 45° Position should be pointed 20-25° down to get the 65° Angle.

Hope you understand my text and i will mention that i`m yet not sure if it`s right. In the Field i tried the 45° and the 65° angle with my 12mm FF Lens and it looks much more appealing and logical when i pointed the Lens just for 20° down to my foreground.

 

Yeah, of course 45° you can measure from the bottom of the flower, or from the top - or actually we could also figure if the bottom or the center of the lens is the point one should align (in case if a 77mm diameter lens this would be a 50% error for our 7cm flower ) .

But I think not the precisely 45° is what actually matters - it's just an aid to explain the concept. That is if you shoot wide, by choosing a viewangle (camera position) matched to your foreground element's size you can create a prominent foreground even from the tiniest rock, creek, flower which helps to pull your viewer into the scene.
[in the video he shows 45° to the top of the mentioned wildflower, then he tilts down his arm by +20ˇ - this in the field, if you have the flower at to bottom edge of the frame, means a kind of "blow-up" of the flower, thanks to the wide-angle's distortion.]

F.e. the linked example [Before Us Minus] shows this size-exaggeration on the bottom-right corner (to get that he must have been quite low and close to the flower). So he achieves the transition already in the foreground: your eye follows the purple color and you get the feeling because the flowers' size appear to change a lot as your view wanders.

I do enjoy having a conversation on this subject, hope I could explain how I got his concept.

p.s.: if you pm me, I can sum up also in German, I have a hunch that it would help in the comm

 

Sorry Guys.. I got little confused with the " 7cm flower".
is the below illustration on the Lens Orientation correct? @takitm @ariel
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... I don't get your idea from the pic, sorry, my bad
But here's what's meant in my opinion (see figure). So you should try to shoot somewhere in between those camera positions.

All in all it's easy: if you go for wide-angle and have a tiny element to work with and you want to turn it into a nice foreground, get on your knees, get close and the distortion helps you. This is exactly what's happening in the scene you attached (notice the skewed flowerheads in the bottom-right corner)
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Thank You.. Got your point

 

Thanks buddy, i spent you a Gold Membership for your help

 

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