I only took this because it was a challenge and I was trying out a new lens. Strong direct sunlight, lighter reflections from a white tiled floor, strong interior pendant lights, very indistinct artificial background lighting, tinted glass and no tripod! So many light sources made it difficult to polarise everything, but it kind of works as a candid so all is not lost.
Yeah, blown out arm, I actually experimented with putting a 1 pixel line across between it and the counter but thats cheating! I bracketed the shot and the one 2 stops down has better definition in that area but you loose his face, I might clip it out and matt it onto this image and re-post.
Thirds, yep, if you take that lower black line I guess it does run across the central horizontal third, I think my agro about thirds is everyones obsession with off centre composition, in the 50' and 60's it would have been plain odd to do it, now its the norm.
I think I'll give up and get a pop 3 at clones.com (calvers@clones.com?).
Andrew, your right, im bored of the rule of 3'rds and stuff, but you did this nicely, and by the way, you do have thirds, for your horizons, and the centre man, i think is set perfectly. rules are just guide lines, but if we all followed them, who would we be! CLONES!!!! "yes you can reach me at CLONE@CLONES.COM, " yes i can join!, not! great work! and keep fighting these guys who read the propreties of photography in books and not by there eye! S-7"s again my only con is that his arm..is blown out to the bar or table, you cant see the line between, but im reaching for that one, awsome image
Okay, off centre is cool, but I'm getting bored with rule of thirds and no centraalised framing. I'm shooting a lot of stuff at the moment with centred framing and it only looks bad because its 'old fashioned' and 'not creative'. Lifes one big experiment!
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