Sunday, February 8, 2009

Composition assignment

The good: Here (Jan 22.-29, photo 8). I like the placement of the man in the frame and the position the photographer managed to make this photo from (i.e. looking down on the subject). The caption adds a lot of vital information; however, I think it's a well-composed image.


The bad: I'm not sure what the subject is of this photograph, and even with the caption, I think there may have been a better way to present this. Caption reads: "Drought: sand covers the head of a dead cow in Stroeder, Argentina."

A question: There are some rules that James Nachtwey is breaking here, intentionally, and my question is what is the benefit of cropping the child's face and placing him so prominently in the center?

3 comments:

Meghan Pittman said...

I really liked the first picture you commented on. The rows of tables create an awesome leading line and the placement is perfect.

Katherine said...

I really liked the first photo. It had great leading lines and a very intersting composition. The bad photo was very strange. I didn't know what I was looking at even though there was a caption with it.

Leila Mattimore said...

is the second picture intended to look like an animal head?