Hi Boris -
I suppose the critic meant "split composition" in that the image can be seen
as having to competing centers of interest in the form of the two lamps.
Personally I like a lot of what is going on here in terms of placing the
main elements of the shot along the diagonal and in terms of the repetitions
of light and pattern
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Mark Cassino Photography
Kalamazoo, MI
www.markcassino.com
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Boris Liberman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, May 24, 2005 5:08 AM
Subject: PAW and a Question
Hi!
http://www.photoforum.ru/rate/photo.php?photo_id=190899
I've been told that this photo has broken composition. It is as if
there are two separates shots inside one - one with lower lamp and the
other one with the lamp above.
I think that the shadows and lights work together so that this image
is actually a whole.
Here is the question: is this composition really broken into two
halves? What defines a composition that is whole?
I mean not in a sense of rules or examples, but rather in a sense of
viewer's perspective...
Thanks.
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Boris
