Window Light

Thank you for your constructive comments on this photo. I will upload

another photo in this page; please let me know if you consider the bit of

furniture on the right, cropped in this photo, is necessarily a distraction.

This is the other photo referred to above. Sometimes, looking at both photos, I feel I should have gone a bit to the left and included a bit more of the right side in the photo. The window would have come a bit towards the centre then and a bit of the dark areas on the left would have been cropped off. Thanks for looking. 

This shot works very well, in my opinion - I really like the light fade from black to light.  The brightest/focal point is not aligned with the primary visual element ( the window ) but I think that it works.  thanks for sharing!

Samrat, I prefer the first photo. There is a fairly noticeable tube (chimney? downspout?) that effectively splits the photo in two sections. In the first one, it is more off the centre and less distracting. It would be interesting to see the photo of this very same room in, say, 3-4 months when the sun would be lower in the sky, illuminating much deeper into the room's intricate pattern on the floor. Great light and shadow, perspective and tones. Thanks for posting!

Thank you for your comments on the photo. It is indeed heartening to see that my first choice echoed with both of you.

The explanation of the effectiveness of the off-centre position of the pipe has been helpful. With regard to Chris's comment, I did not see the window as a primary visual element nor did really consider aligning it with the brightest point in the frame while shooting, but wanted to present an atmosphere of the whole room. Maybe I am missing a basic rule of composition there. Could you please explain further? Regards.

I still prefer the second! Stronger and sharper looking! But it's only for this shiny background, pictures should be viewed in ACDSee browser full screen!

Best regards Samrat!

PDE

Many thanks, Pierre. I wonder why the second photo looks sharper to you. The only difference between the two was that I had retained the cropped bit in the second one. But I'm glad you like the overall composition. Regards.

I prefer the second variation, it brings better composition and didn´t lose the atmosphere of the room. It doesn´t mean that on first photo the composition is "wrong" or "out of rules" (there are no "wrong" compositions or rules for composition), but to me the second version works better. I even think that would be nice to step a bit to the left and with wider angle to focus on window. Just my opinion.