Interesting Robert Capa photo composition article

Great article. At the end of the day, at least for me the composition is the most important aspect of the image.
 
The analysis just looked like random straight lines to me, no real relation to the actual construction of the pictures themselves ...
 
Sparrow said:
The analysis just looked like random straight lines to me, no real relation to the actual construction of the pictures themselves ...
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I agree completely. One or two of the lines sometimes match up with something, but it's meaningless. When I first saw the article, I thought it was a satire or something.
 
Sparrow said:
The analysis just looked like random straight lines to me, no real relation to the actual construction of the pictures themselves ...
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I agree. Those two sleeping train travellers: I'd have put the lines converging towards the top of the image, except I'd never draw any lines of the sort. Whenever I see lines superimposed on a picture, I reach for my revolver.
 
It was a good read and interesting site in general, but the question is how much of the realisation happens in camera and how much happens during editing. I think an awful lot happens intuitively in camera and then during editing the actual name for the spacial relationships might be apparent. Certainly a great deal of knowledge and awareness helps, but I also suspect a lot of images work because that's where the elements were at the time and the photographer got lucky in fulfilling certain compositional forms. When images neither fall into place nor are worked into place, they do not pass editing and are forgotten about. When a photographer produces a shot with masterful composition, the tendency is to assume that the photographer intended it that way and was fully conscious of those qualities at the time of capture. In many cases, the contact sheets also make an interesting contribution to the discussion.
 
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