Forum: Photography


Subject: Composition - what does it mean to you?

ABodensohn opened this issue on Nov 08, 2007 ยท 14 posts


girsempa posted Thu, 08 November 2007 at 2:16 PM

What if the 'composition' itself is the focal point..?
I'm asking this because that is the case in many of my images.
I don't see a subject as a subject; subjects as a focal point don't interest me that much. Instead I see lines, shapes, color planes and accents in every scene that catches my eye, be it a landscape, a streak of light on a wall, a group of people, a tiny insect between branches or an object on my desk... my starting point will always be 'composition', never subject.
Composition as the main focal point, and the so-called subjects as mere 'transmitters'... does that make sense...?


We do not see things as they are. ǝɹɐ ǝʍ sɐ sƃuıɥʇ ǝǝs ǝʍ