pharmakon
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I decided to focus the nut and leave the squirrel out of focus... like or don't like?
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Generally when we view a photograph, we look from left to right....it's sort of a natural progression and what the "Golden Spiral", "rule of thirds", etc., basic art rules ...are based on..
I think that what may help this photo, from a viewers perspective, is to reverse it so your eye picks up the nut first as the focal point on the left, then let our eye wander up to the slightly out-of-focus squirrel..
You might crop in a bit closer too........
Give it a try.........:thumbup:
Left to right? Since when? That's a HUGE generalization. The eye can be led from bottom to top, right to left, diagonally or in spirals depending on composition and the lines in the frame. Not to mention that while such a generalization may appear true for the general population of people whom read and write in languages read from left to right, I highly doubt—in the absence of evidence to the contrary—that such a generalization would hold true for the vast populations of persons whom converse in languages read from right-to-left (e.g. Arabic) or vertically (e.g. Asian languages).
Left to right? Since when? That's a HUGE generalization. The eye can be led from bottom to top, right to left, diagonally or in spirals depending on composition and the lines in the frame. Not to mention that while such a generalization may appear true for the general population of people whom read and write in languages read from left to right, I highly doubt—in the absence of evidence to the contrary—that such a generalization would hold true for the vast populations of persons whom converse in languages read from right-to-left (e.g. Arabic) or vertically (e.g. Asian languages).
I do agree it does sound like a huge generalization, but its something that I have had experienced photographers (Hertz on here, though he is not around much these days) tell me the same. Certainly for the western based nations it sounds like a sound viewing plan - as for nations where they read right to left you have to factor in that photography itself came from the west to start with. Thus the convention of viewing images left to right was also imparted with that and I belive that that has (possibly) lead to a similar viewing pattern in those nations as well.
It's something that I don't know much more about than that.