Making his own style from some the basics of art theory is really impressive. Eric Fredine is a landscape photography, who in his work uses a format which really works well for his photography. Some may say that all of his pictures are kinda all the same. But for a trained eye, a person who takes more time to look at Eric Fredine’s work and has some knowledge of the basics of art theory, you can see a lot of little elements used that will make you busy for a while.
The first noticed thing is, that he isn’t using a usual photographic format as in landscape, portrait, golden cut or any other. He’s using the polaroid like one which is 1:1. Today photographers usually use the basic landscape one, or the even bigger panorama format so that that can get as much as possible into a photo with a wide lens. Eric Fredine is different and his main focus is in my opinion on photographing the figure and composition of a landscape. His goal is to take a picture, that is in harmony with the rules of art theory so it becomes pleasant to the eye.
Let me try to explain it on one of Eric Fredine photos. The picture number 19 below is a perfect example of a harmonic diagonal. Try to look at the picture by “erasing the sky” in your mind and looking just the land/sea. They are split and make a diagonal that starts from bottom left and goes right and up making the sea push the land down becoming a harmonic diagonal. That means it’s in balance if it was made opposite we would feel that the sea is falling down on the right. But now, it isn’t going anywhere, just down.
Another art theory basic is the well known rule of thirds, but breaking it makes the image more dynamic since there are other elements like composition and proportions involved. So in the end, everything is in perfect balance.
…By the way, i may have used some words wrong since i’m don’t know the right terms - english is my second language 
but i promise i’ll work on it 
More of Eric Fredine’s work can be found at his website.
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