From the Critique Club:
This is a clever diagonal composition. You have cup with spoon at upper corner, the pot and its handle. You threw the extra weight on the pot handle with the watch and so the eye travels up and down on the diagonal. Notice how the spoon reinforces the top and note how it blends in with the green line of the cup. I am sorry if I overreach to recompose, but I would have rotated the spoon handle opposite the cup handle. This would give me a T compostion to break the straight diagonal line and bringing the other burner into play. Another flight of fancy would be to move the cup a little to the left and place the spoon with the handle just over the lonely unused burner. The bulb on the spoon would have filled just a bit more of real estate.
The watch is well placed. It keeps the eye from slipping off the bottom right. Pictures like these depend on delicate placement, because you are composing an image. It often helps to squint your eyes as you compose because it helps to find the universally accepted modes of design. Nothing is really new. It is mostly old wines in new bottles.
I think you did nicely here because many decisions must be made to make a simple composition and sometimes, the simpler it is, the harder to execute. By the way, creating these types of scenes will certainly sharpen your design and compositional sense. Good work. dan
Message edited by author 2004-06-22 22:20:03. |
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