While repetition in the humdrum of daily life can at times be a little boring – capturing it in your photography can create an image with real impact.
Life is filled with patterns – many of which we overlook due to the business of our days – however once you get an eye for spotting them (and it takes being intentional and some practice) you’ll be amazed by what you see and you’ll wonder why you didn’t incorporate them into your photography before.
When it comes to capturing repetition in photography a couple of techniques come to mind – you can either emphasize it or break it.
Emphasize the Patterns:
Filling your frame with a repetitive pattern can give the impression of size and large numbers. The key to this is to attempt to zoom in close enough to the pattern that it fills the frame and makes the repetition seem as though it’s bursting out (even if the repetition stops just outside of your framing).
Some examples of this technique might include faces in a crowd, bricks on a wall, a line of bicycle wheels all on the same angle etc. Almost any repeated appearance of objects could work.
The picture of bottles (left) gives the sense that there could be hundreds or thousands of them – even though there could be as few as 20-30.
Read more: http://digital-photography-school.com/using-repetition-and-patterns-in-photography#ixzz1tcXklz6J
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