Breaking the Rules of Composition

Removing the subject from centre immediately renders this image as an abstract which is indeed its success, portraying contrast in shade, texture and shape as an artistic whole. It's not about the chair! The image also thrives on its perfect exposure in shadows and highlights.

This image thrives on the unusual positioning of the eye. Firstly, it renders the real-life image into an abstract and art-form. Secondly, it allows the texture and shade of the horse's jowl and neck to feature centre in a fine-art sense. Thirdly, it attributes a sense of movement to the horse, galloping through the frame. Technically beautiful - exposure, triangular composition, sharpness and colour balance. Wow.

Having to busk on the street at a young age must indeed make the subject feel that he is 'on the edge' - his positioning in the frame lends weight to that story. His eyes lead us to his partner who's 'broken' story is related by his half-appearance. They play to each other and for each other - their music dances across the frame. A clever composition. I would have appreciated a slightly sharper image.

Thank you for submitting your dreamy, painting-like image. Technically sublime - catching movement with tasteful blur. Matching the shades of the figure with the background adds to the flow of the image's movement. The clever positioning of the figure relegates its importance to just a 'passer-by in an artist's palette' - which is how I would rename the image.

Now that the eye can't rationalise the symmetry of the composition - because the sky-gap has been knocked off-centre - the stress of living in this crowded arrangement is conveyed most effectively. The image is vibrant and the drop-off of exposure towards the centre adds to the remoteness of living all the way up there.