One small change:
If you are you, you’ll TRY TO follow a rigid rule as cited above hoping to make the photo stronger.
Sometimes it works, sometimes I simply can’t make it work.
If it doesn’t work, my second choice is to try to use the technique Joanna showed in two photos she posted. I’m editing a photo right now, which I will post later today or tomorrow, of some brightly colored boats in Cambodia. The best I know how to do, is to get all the other “stuff” to wrap around these boats, trying to emulate Joanna’s technique. I haven’t given up, or stopped, yet.
Oh well, I just posted the other image:
Cambodian Work Boats
I can’t always do what I’d like to do. So I need to “cheat” I guess.
I suspect people will eventually figure out what I’m trying to say, and why. But everyone is different, with their own ideas on how to do things.
Not exactly - I learned it from “composition” in art school, and from many articles in the old photography magazines I used to read. Obviously, sometimes I can’t do things that way, all the time, or even “most of the time”.
I assume most people just look at an image, ignore any caption, and “see” what their own imagionation (sp) wants to see. To me, the photo has to stand on its own, with no help from written explanations. I learned that from photojournalism, where an accurate and descriptive caption is required, but many people just look at the picture.