Breaking with Convention

Traditional western photography teaches us to appeal to our cultures left to right sensitivities in our composition. We do this by encouraging the eye into the photo where it is captured by something pleasing. We then work to keep the viewer in the photo, moving around it, pondering it.

I do love breaking with convention. Here our model is instantly blocking our eyes journey into the photo. Not only that she’s looking back off out to our left, encouraging us to go back to where we came from. Does the negative space somehow balance this out, forcing us to get lost in her gaze?

I’ll let you be the judge, and see if you like it as much as I do.

More photos please

I’m such a perfectionist. Waiting so long to publish my photos. The weight of processing builds up and with an active job, life and family something so ‘big’ can be a daunting task.

So I decided to break it up. I’ll still reserve what I consider to be my best work for my portfolio over on www.fluidpixel.com however in the mean time I plan on publishing more regularly on Facebook right over here.

Here’s something nice to get us started….