Photography is a two dimensional medium. With creativity at play in the composition, however, an image can look vibrant in rhythm and motions. Photographers can train themselves to be observant about the lines, shapes, points and colour patches of similar quality in a scene. At the right shooting angle, these similar elements can accumulate into a rhythmic factor to guide the viewers' eyesight to the primary subject of the image. If done handsomely, the image in the limited space can succeed in revealing the idea only in the end, much as the effect of an ending climax in a movie which is however in the space of hours.
Here, an attempt is made to create a visual guidance in the photo by way of the seemingly reducing size of the masonry rocks. Hopefully, this leads the viewers to focus on the homeless man who is the primary subject. The busy street in the background serves to accentuate the sorrowful situation of the man and his companions not far away from him lying on worn mattresses. The diagonal lines radiating from the left bottom counters the right-to-left reading habit, giving a sense of force or hardship to befit the theme.
I left the scene with a saddened feeling for the poor men deep down in me.
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