Show Us Your Greatest Composition

[jimcon11]

Hello RFFers,

I am interested in the formal possibilities of photography. There is something uncanny about the well-composed photograph, a beauty that is hard to express logically, yet instantly understood.

I am interested in how others here regard composition. This is a chance to show off that photo you are most proud of, because its composition is unique, clever, revealing, beautiful, or all of the above.

Please post only one photo, and say why you think it is your best. All formats welcome. Let's see the most rational image you have won away from the unordered clutter of space and time!

 

[jimcon11]

I will start.

It is simply a cylindrical fuel tank of some kind held up by brick supports, but something about it is just mesmerizing. There is a triangular rhythm running all about it, between the stairway, the wall, and the shadows on the tank. The three primary tones reinforce this: dark bricks, greyish stairway/sky, and almost blinding white of the tank. The blending of tone is disorienting and gives the whole image a plastic feel.

That's my best shot at describing it-- like I said, these things are uncanny!

 

[FrozenInTime]

It's an old one from 1997 of the comet Hale-Bopp.
The flare from the lens, a 35 summilux ASPH, added the element that makes it stand out in my mind. Taken with a filmM camera, so no way of predicting or previewing the result, I remember bracketing the camera position to try to avoid flare; I ended up picking the shot with the most flare.
These days movie film directors like JJ Abrams are adding post production lens flare.

 

[hepcat]

This remains one of my favorites. I have a 20x24 canvas wrap print on my wall.


illuminated_wm by chief1120, on Flickr

 

[thegman]

It's an old one from 1997 of the comet Hale-Bopp.
The flare from the lens, a 35 summilux ASPH, added the element that makes it stand out in my mind. Taken with a filmM camera, so no way of predicting or previewing the result, I remember bracketing the camera position to try to avoid flare; I ended up picking the shot with the most flare.
These days movie film directors like JJ Abrams are adding post production lens flare.

That is a superb shot, might I ask what film? Pushed?

 

[daveleo]

I'll change my mind in a few minutes, but at the moment, here is my favorite composition . . .

EDIT (days later): I am very pleased with this composition, and have been
since I shot it, because it reminds me of the fabulous images of Joan Miro,
particularly the image on the cover of Dave Brubeck's album "Time Further
Out". That music and Miro's imagery opened my mind to stuff that I had
never experienced before.

I was very happy to make this image on my work bench with just an auger
bit and a light box (just to the left of the frame).

 

[Ko.Fe.]

Reading. by Ko.Fe., on Flickr

 

[hepcat]

I'll change my mide in a few minutes, but at the moment, here is my favorite composition . . .

I really like this one... it's a little bit Jackson Pollock and a little bit Maggie Bourke-White. 😀

 

[mfogiel]

201211419 by mfogiel, on Flickr

There is no such thing as "greatest composition", but I like the combination of "swirl" in the gesture of the arms, and the stillness dictated by the dominant eye being in the center of the frame.

 

[FrozenInTime]

That is a superb shot, might I ask what film? Pushed?

As I recall it was Provia 1600 push 2 ( i.e. at ISO 1600 ) exposure using the 60/focal-length seconds rule to avoid star trails @ f/1.4.

 

[peterm1]

In pure compositional terms this one would go close as its all about composition........................


Remembrance by yoyomaoz, on Flickr

 

[p.giannakis]

I think that it was pure luck in my case.

 

[d__b]

One of my current faborites from the island of St. Helena. I just really like how all the elements in the picture are balanced.


image by TheManWhoWasn'tThere, on Flickr

 

[ChrisN]

This one worked well, with the leading lines terminated by the surfer (to stop the eye leaving the page).

 

[daveleo]

I really like this one... it's a little bit Jackson Pollock and a little bit Maggie Bourke-White. 😀

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[taskoni]

I have a bunch of great compositions…

Today this one is my favorite 🙂

Regards,

Boris

 

[daveleo]

In pure compositional terms this one would go close as its all about composition........................


Remembrance by yoyomaoz, on Flickr

Peter . . . not to minimize your beautiful shot here, but are you familiar with "The Weeping Angels" ? . . . one of the scariest Dr. Who stories ever !!

 

[jippiejee]

girl vs cosmos...

girl vs cosmos...

Man vs Machine always supplies great compositional possibilities for play with sizes...

 

[j_sebastian]

I like this


. por foto.graficamente, en Flickr

 

[DSB]

Man vs Machine always supplies great compositional possibilities for play with sizes...

Very nice. The play of the shadows and light really emphasize the elements. And create a very pleasing overall composition. A truly excellent shot.