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AuntiPode wrote:
For some reason, in the last decade so, there seems to a trend for folks to compose by taking the visual nexus and plopping in squarely in the center of the frame. Some cinematographers are quite explicit about their intent. Traditionally, landscape photographers have usually found compositions to be stronger when the center of visual interest was not dead center on either axis and especially not both. Traditionally, center placement has been perceived as creating a static composition and a more dynamic one is preferable. Perhaps more folks placing the nexus in the center is simply boredom with the conventional. But perhaps the conventional was conventional for good reason. What was your intent? Did you intentionally choose a center static composition as an artistic choice?
For example, a more traditional composition may have been something like this:...Show more →
AntiPode - thank you for taking the time to share your thoughts, they are well stated. I really did not think about the rule of thirds or subject placement, except of course when originally composing in camera.
The main reason I kept my image without a crop is the feel it gave me of scale and grandeur - which tells the tale of Monument Valley. I hope this makes sense.
WTS - you have me wondering what a top down crop would achieve in terms of composition strength?
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