Minor Composition in Relaxation -- Twenty-Four Hours In Spring

Resident, Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine, finds a place of repose one Spring

day, chosen for photography. This is a very minor study in

composition. Your ratings and critiques are invited and very

welcome. If you rate harshly or very negatively, please submit a

helpful and constructive critique/Please share your superior

knowledge to help improve my photography.) Thanks! Enjoy! John

This is a study in a 'Z' figure which figures in my photography, and in particular, this is a reverse 'Z', slanted slightly. I figure that there are certain photographic devices which help elevate very mundane photos somewhat by drawing the viewers' eyes into the photo and an 'S' curve does just that, sometimes a 'C' curve, and a 'Z' figure performs almost the same function as a 'S' curve.

John (thinking compositionally)

Idiocy, I think.

Maybe I just reversed it in my mind.

There's a name for that, and I'll insert it when I think of it.

Thanks for pointing that out.

;-))

John

Adult onset dyslexia!

John

What i like about this photo, is that it is moment out of "normal"life. (or is it common life) Did this man knew you were taking his photo? He looks with his mind somewhere else, so probably he didnt noticed you .(?)

Ellen.

Ellen, either way 'normal' or 'common' -- this man had no idea his photo was being taken, and it only took one or one and one-half seconds to frame/compose and press the shutter, then move on. I was attracted to the 'Z' figure and the figure of the man interrupting it, and he was a very ordinary looking man, a 'working man'.

It's a good example of how to 'find' a photo where otherwise there is none. It's far from anybody's best, but nevertheless an example of how to 'create' when the pickin's otherwise poor.

John