Hey Corrina...I'll try and give the moves the eye through the shot vs. too busy comment...
What I meant was that there seems to be too many focal points to me in this shot.
-the bucket
-the recycling bin
-the wire cage thingy
-the two other metal storage containers...
However if the bucket were dominant, and the rest blurred it would give more of a focal point...Now if we took this same shot and the bucket were prominant, and then the last container on the far right was, and everything else blurred or darker or was distinctly different, then that would help in moving the eye from one point to the other, and thus leading your eye through the shot, (but there being more than one focal point is a bit of a problem.)
I tried to find two of my own images to btter illustrate, here's what I came up with:
In this shot of the hay bales, there is no real focal point IMO. You eye does move from hay bale to hay bale, but just can't find a place to land. But in the shot below (excuse poor quality it was taken through a car window)...a similiar shot, there is the one hay bale in the bottom left...the focal point...it's larger than the rest and stands out as more prominant...however the other bales lead your eye through the shot
Don't know if that makes any more sense or not, or if I rambled on w/o a point But whatever the case I prefer the first image of my hay bales where there isn't really a dominant point, because objects are fighting for attention...they're all relatively the same size and are spread throughout the page...in your shot you posted the bucket is small, and the other objects are all different sizes so they fight for the eyes attention...
Just my opinion Corrina...not saying these ideas are facts, but they're something I've been taught and am still learning about...
What I meant was that there seems to be too many focal points to me in this shot.
-the bucket
-the recycling bin
-the wire cage thingy
-the two other metal storage containers...
However if the bucket were dominant, and the rest blurred it would give more of a focal point...Now if we took this same shot and the bucket were prominant, and then the last container on the far right was, and everything else blurred or darker or was distinctly different, then that would help in moving the eye from one point to the other, and thus leading your eye through the shot, (but there being more than one focal point is a bit of a problem.)
I tried to find two of my own images to btter illustrate, here's what I came up with:
In this shot of the hay bales, there is no real focal point IMO. You eye does move from hay bale to hay bale, but just can't find a place to land. But in the shot below (excuse poor quality it was taken through a car window)...a similiar shot, there is the one hay bale in the bottom left...the focal point...it's larger than the rest and stands out as more prominant...however the other bales lead your eye through the shot
Don't know if that makes any more sense or not, or if I rambled on w/o a point But whatever the case I prefer the first image of my hay bales where there isn't really a dominant point, because objects are fighting for attention...they're all relatively the same size and are spread throughout the page...in your shot you posted the bucket is small, and the other objects are all different sizes so they fight for the eyes attention...
Just my opinion Corrina...not saying these ideas are facts, but they're something I've been taught and am still learning about...