Composition Question

[Asher Kelman]

I haven't had much time to post here, but when I saw the photograph it made me think of a teacher I studied privately with about 10-12 years ago. When we'd show him a slide in critique he's always first tell us to answer first "What is it an image of?" We have to know the subject first. We can discover we are wong about it as we study it, but Ken was very eloquent in his post above.

Kathy,

Good point! When shooting people or flowers, Rachel already does know what her subject is, and very well, and that's why she is so much more successful "right off the bat"! Also, for people and flower pictures, there are accepted ways in which we approach the subjects whereas discovered stuff on the beach like this is utterly new and there's no library in Rachel's mind to draw on so readily as in he other work.

Asher

 

[Prateek Dubey]

Hello Rachel,
The image is missing a fundamental quality, that of relationships. perhaps the spiky form against the hazy out of focus sea in the backdrop would have stood out like a rubicon and created a sense of authority. Here, I think in the second crop there is a hint of an effort to breach the wave emotion captured.

 

[Rachel Foster]

Prateek. relationships...yes! That's what captured my eye. I just have not yet figured out how to compose images to show those. Thanks!