An ordinary enough scenario that is repeated hundreds of times a day but I liked the dynamic tension in this that holds the frame together despite the position of the protagonists.
This is for my PLAY project - you can read more about it in my profile - where I'll be using a different prime lens for each month of the year: for May it's the Sony 16mm f/2.8 on an APS-C sensor camera (today the Sony Nex-7) - the equivalent of a 24mm lens on a full-frame camera.
It does hold together...and I'm trying to see why? I'm not great at composition. I'm thinking it's the two dark figures balancing each other with ceiling beam as divider and television as a midpoint, and the countertop across the bottom framing the whole? Very nice for an everyday scene.
@houser934 Thanks Kathryn - I think you've put your finger on it... the frame is closed by the elements within it and, as you say, the figures are in equilibrium.
I think it's that the two figures are both quite proximate to each other, but both completely doing their own things. And the TV is like a portal.
I have a 20 (which just about bends your toes into the shot), and a 28 (which I really like). But 24 only on my mid-range zooms, so only on the camera when it has to be. 24 looks like it has just that bit of stretch without being completely gonzo.
I have a 20 (which just about bends your toes into the shot), and a 28 (which I really like). But 24 only on my mid-range zooms, so only on the camera when it has to be. 24 looks like it has just that bit of stretch without being completely gonzo.