Composition: Rule of Space
Your subject should be facing the frame, walking into the frame, this keeps your subject "in" the frame and engaging with it. Give your subject room to move.
I have been struggling with this all week. Spent many minutes in various places waiting for my subject to appear and oblige. In the end, this is the only shot that came close to meeting the brief. I didn't really want to use selective colour, but what do you know, for a long time the bridge was completely empty, and then as soon as my subject comes into the frame, there appear to be many other people appearing at the back and obscuring him from behind.
While I love the long leading line in this picture, a tighter crop would have helped him too. I did a 52 week challenge last year and they can be frustrating at times but I think you're doing rather well with it!
Oh I love the little batman. It reminds me of when I was about the same age and my auntie made a batman suit for my brother. I got to be robin with a duster for a cape!
you got the brief perfectly! i like that your two subjects are moving towards the camera, one through the straight shadow/lines and the other seemingly guided by the curved shadow, both heading for the same point in the frame. if my comment doesn't make sense, ignore me. i'm just babbling.
@summerfield makes perfect sense. I wanted my subjects to be bound by the shadow from the bridge, but for some odd reason, everyone that came along moved across to the other side. Cant think why me standing there with a camera would put them off! If I had waited any longer they would have started to steer a course around me.
@domenicododaro cheers @fbailey to be honest - the shadows are why I wanted the photograph - thanks @suzanne234 weren't you the lucky one! strange how these childhood grievances stay with us @overalvandaan thank you - I was hoping they might @stephanies I spotted that you had done a similar thing. Tricky challenge. @olivetreeann thank you very much Ann. I can see you are right - but I really wanted the shadows. Perhaps not loyal enough to the theme. @flowerfairyann thanks for the encouragement
@fbailey to be honest - the shadows are why I wanted the photograph - thanks
@suzanne234 weren't you the lucky one! strange how these childhood grievances stay with us
@overalvandaan thank you - I was hoping they might
@stephanies I spotted that you had done a similar thing. Tricky challenge.
@olivetreeann thank you very much Ann. I can see you are right - but I really wanted the shadows. Perhaps not loyal enough to the theme.
@flowerfairyann thanks for the encouragement