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Left Handed Composition Question


 
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I know that generally when you compose a photo, you want your negative space on the left and your subject to the right..Being left handed, for some reason my brain has trouble with that concept. I force myself to do it that way a lot of the time, but sometimes it just doesn't look right to me..is it just me, or do you other lefties have the same problem? The shot I uploaded today is a good example. I suppose the rabbit should be on the right, but I couldn't bring myself to flip the shot. What do you guys think?


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May 30, 2008

 

John P. Sandstedt 		  It has nothing to do with being left handed. The fact is that most of [folks that read Hebrew excluded] read from left to right. Our eyes generally move in that manner even when we view a photo.

In your rabbit picture, the eye STOPS at the animal. In this image, this may be less important since there's nothing earth-shaking in the background. Nonetheless, rotating the image horizontally will produce a superior version in which the eye will be
forced" to traval across the fields to the subject.


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Ok, I'll upload the flipped version and if the first one doesn't do anything, I'll resubmit it. I was just curious if other lefties see things the way I sometimes do.


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