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Thanks to Tatjana for sharing this nice image with us. The composition arranged here is as simple as it can get. The limitation to a few effective elements has brought more focus to the viewer who doesn't have to mentally go through an ordeal

to digest the elements presented here.

Tatjana's aim here has most probably been to present us with what we often take for granted: The beauty of the sky above, but in doing so he has employed exaggeration of the effects to bring forth a particular response in the viewer what is away from reality. He seems to be playing with our visual experience, for he has created a very suffocating atmosphere, so that the focal point is inevitably placed on the sun which is in perfect radial symmetry but placed off center to cause more gravity and to unsettle the viewer. The perfect mathematical geometry of the sun is contrasting with the irregular shape of the clouds, making us alternate between these two competing focal points. The frame is very dark in value, causing the details stand out immaculately. The sun is the brightest point in the frame; as a result it adsorbs the lion's share of the compositional weight.

Emphasis is achieved through shape of the sun, its being the brightest primary point of interest, The eye direction it guides, and its placement in the frame, the very last can be argued in terms of what Kurt Koffka calls the principle of ' sharpening ' and 'leveling' in the placements of the objects in the frame.

Since having employed as asymmetrical balance, Tatjana could perfect the task of the placement by ' sharpening ' the main figure more if he placed the sun and the associating clouds a little away from the center to achieve a sharper, more attractive composition. The sun and the nearby hovering clouds are every thing in terms of balance and emphasis, but leaving the sun indeterministically between the sharpening and leveling is visually unpleasant and unsettling unless this violation is purposefully exploited.

There is too much of blackness aroun4 the sun, which can be cropped out not only to reduce the pressure on the eyes but to move the sun further away from the center to uplift the gravity of visual importance, to sharpen the subject more to be precise.

The peeping cloud from the lower edge is also a non-contributing element which

should be subsequently removed to tidy up the frame. Tonal gradation having ruined the neatness of the image can also be removed by the circular motion of the cloning tool in PS.