20/20 Photo Challenge : Composition

A new challenge from my “blogging buddy” Jude has rekindled my interest in photography. Here is how Jude describes the challenge…

20/20 Photo Challenge

“I decided to challenge myself (and possibly you) by trying out various photographic techniques, skills or concepts. If you would like to join in then I have a 2020 Photo Challenge page set up to explain the simple guidelines and proposed monthly assignments.”

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This month's final assignment - Simplify your image. 
What is it that you want the viewer to focus on?

(Jude gives tips and hints each week to help with the assignment.)

Trying to include too much in an image often spoils it. An image that is cluttered causes the eye of the viewer to dart around the image trying to make sense of it.

• • Less is more as the old saying goes.
  • Eliminate anything that would distract the eye or is unnecessary to the memory you are attempting to create.
  • Sometimes a photo becomes great because of what we choose to leave out.

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I have chosen the garden to focus on this month. It is a huge challenge to eliminate the photo bombing plants and leaves. So this time I scrolled through the hundreds of garden photos from 2019. This is what I found…It was the early morning light that caught my eye and made me rush inside for the camera. I did crop it slightly but decided to leave in the bromeliads cheekily hanging over the rocks and pointing toward the agave. Do you think the photo bombing geraniums take the focus away?This is definitely “less is more”. This family of Magpies regularly sing their hearts out from the highest point of the tv aerial. I can almost hear them when I look at this photo. They inspired me to put them in my art journal…

Next month there will be a new theme “being creative with patterns”

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Jude’s final photo for this month is a stunning shot of the Godrevy lighthouse slowly emerging from the mist.Go over and have a look and maybe you would like to join in the challenge next month.