Compositional Shots ... OR ... The Rule Of Thirds.

Compositional Practice #2

Here's another picture of trees (you might be noticing a recurring theme by now!). I chose this image because the artist in my liked the trees next to the lampposts - I suppose it evoked memories of the lamppost-tree in Narnia (!) as well as placing the man-made next to the natural. Here the trees are once again right in the middle of the picture, and the lampposts are slightly off to the side. You can also see a little building on the right hand side, as well as a car.

Here's the new and improved picture:

For this second picture, I left the idea of the trees as the main focus, and put the focus on the man-made things, whilst keeping much of the top two-thirds as sky, just to maintain some sort of balance. The left third is roughly where the trees are, and the right third includes the two nearest lampposts.

Admittedly, one flaw of the use of the Rule Of Thirds for this picture is that the points of intersection don't instantly leap out as being over anything particularly interesting. However, I liked the use of the different thirds to much to pass up on using this photograph.