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What makes a good composition? The answer is the assembly of elements in and artful arrangement that guides the viewer’s eye and unifies the work. When composing an image we need to think about what ties the elements together. If they are not linked the photograph becomes a collection of elements not a unified illustration.
The photograph of a portion of this classic automobile (Fiat Spider?) is intended to show some of the interesting detail of the design. The photographer has concentrated on just a portion of the head light and bumper with a turning light as the center of our attention. I like the way they have canted the angle of the image giving a feeling of movement to the composition.
The photographer may want to consider the elements and their relationship to each other. There are three subjects in this image; chrome bar, orange light and head light. They appear to be disjointed; they each stand alone without a graphic connection. Perhaps they could be tied together by cropping tighter and using the frame as the unifying element.
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May 29th, 2008 at 6:24 am
The photographer intended the chrome “line” would lead the eye to the yellow light, a contrasting color in the field of red” and then to the headlight. Thus a “circle” of interest would be created.