Portfolio Entry Three

The first thing you see in the image is the contrast between the dark and light sections. The dark surrounds and pulls focus into the centre of the image, then the focus moves to the small cylinder. Despite being small the cylinder becomes a focal point due to a combination of lying on a rule of thirds intersection and being the only 3D shape not obscured by another shape, it’s also being extruded away from the rest of the table thus contrasting with the surrounding dark background. The eye always seems to return to the cylinder but another area of interest is the triangular cone shape, (that appears as a pyramid due to its shadow) is also a focal point, especially at its point where it extrudes and the darkness frames it.

 There is a stronger sense of thirds in the image; the shadow on the cone, the edge of the cube and the drapery fold fall on one of the vertical axis. The other vertical axis for a third is also followed but not so accurately by the edge of the cylinder and the fold. Horizontally it is clear that the ground takes up one third of the image, with the bulk of the table’s chaos in the central third and the top third kept fairly simple.