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Posted: 06 Aug 2013

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17 comments - The latest ones
 Howard Somerville
Howard Somerville club
The value of a long lens, which I'd failed to appreciate for so long.
11 years ago.
 Isisbridge
Isisbridge club
Exciting black stonework before the clean-up.
10 years ago.
 Isisbridge
Isisbridge club
misplaced phone box
5 years ago. Edited 4 years ago.
 Howard Somerville
Howard Somerville club
Shows great promise, but Roy would have included more road to the south to bring the telephone box to a more prominent position. It is currently just an irritation in the corner of the eye.
2 years ago. Edited 2 years ago.
Isisbridge club has replied to Howard Somerville club
You have missed the point, as usual. The effect is to make it look like a toy phone box against the grandeur of the old black stone.
2 years ago.
Howard Somerville club has replied to Isisbridge club
And you have missed mine, as usual. The intended effect (or what the picture is "saying") is irrelevant. To my eye, the telephone box is well placed in the frame, but it would cause Roy to reach for his Optrex drops.
2 years ago.
Isisbridge club has replied to Howard Somerville club
I don't see why it should. The eye is being led upwards to the grandeur of this slightly formidable old black building, whilst the 'miniature' phone box is dropped there incongruously, like the landing of the Tardis.
2 years ago.
Howard Somerville club has replied to Isisbridge club
As I say, to me the composition looks right, and the picture works. Ditto my picture.

It's just that in mine, Roy finds the red-coloured point of foreground interest (which is similarly positioned in the frame, with a similar amount of lead-in) an eye irritation, and I'd assumed he'd have the same problem with your telephone box. Perhaps we should let him speak for himself.
2 years ago. Edited 2 years ago.
Isisbridge club has replied to Howard Somerville club
There is no divergence here. The phone box sits comfortably within the line of sight.
2 years ago.
Howard Somerville club has replied to Isisbridge club
Correct; there isn't, and it does. As I say, I find nothing wrong with this picture; the 'phone box is in the right place and it has the right amount of foreground lead-in.

My point was that if they are judged in the same way, what is right in this picture is equally right in mine, their compositionally being very similar.
2 years ago. Edited 2 years ago.
Isisbridge club has replied to Howard Somerville club
I think there must be something fundamentally wrong with your sense of composition, as your picture is compositionally quite unlike mine.
2 years ago.
Howard Somerville club has replied to Isisbridge club
1. There's little evidence for this.
2. The pictures are of different subjects, and hence cannot be composed identically, but in respect of the placement of the foreground interest vis a vis the lead-in (which in my picture has been criticised) they are nearly identical.
2 years ago.
Isisbridge club has replied to Howard Somerville club
The evidence is provided in your own reply.
2 years ago.
Howard Somerville club has replied to Isisbridge club
So there IS in fact something fundamentally wrong with my sense of composition. Fair enough. But that being the case, my positive comments about your picture and its composition have no validity.
2 years ago. Edited 2 years ago.
Isisbridge club has replied to Howard Somerville club
If that is your rule, then so be it.
2 years ago.
Howard Somerville club has replied to Isisbridge club
Good composition, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder, and amen to that.

As a very young teenager, I had a wooden, 6" rule. It was kept on my bedside table.
2 years ago. Edited 2 years ago.
Isisbridge club has replied to Howard Somerville club
Rule, Britannia! Here's another example where there's very little road, as the eye is deliberately drawn upward to the flag, with the pub being the 'lead in'.

Kings Arms & St Marys Church
2 years ago. Edited 2 years ago.

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