Why I do like this photograph so much? Because it has a great balance of composition that is not so easily anticipated at a first glance.
The man in the foreground is the reference figure on a line of perspective "telling a story" with the other two figures on the same line in the background. But there is also another plane crossing this perspective where the second man in the line is "telling a different story". There are two figures. An observer, his body implying that he is watching and trying to guess what the others in the far background are telling and a "reporter" talking on his mobile on the move. All those are framed along, and on imaginable lines, cutting the frame in almost golden ratio proportions, while the pile of sacks provides the "central weight" of balance making the whole picture stable. A moment captured in a fraction of a second. An ordinary scene transformed into a masterful composition on three consecutive planes ; one of the perspective, one in the middleground and the third in the far background. This is something quite exceptional!!
I am deeply impressed.
Dimitris V. Georgopoulos
Athens, Greece.
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Dimitris:
Thanks for the analysis of the image! His words are very appreciated by me and always welcome! ;-)
The man in the foreground is the reference figure on a line of perspective "telling a story" with the other two figures on the same line in the background. But there is also another plane crossing this perspective where the second man in the line is "telling a different story". There are two figures. An observer, his body implying that he is watching and trying to guess what the others in the far background are telling and a "reporter" talking on his mobile on the move. All those are framed along, and on imaginable lines, cutting the frame in almost golden ratio proportions, while the pile of sacks provides the "central weight" of balance making the whole picture stable. A moment captured in a fraction of a second. An ordinary scene transformed into a masterful composition on three consecutive planes ; one of the perspective, one in the middleground and the third in the far background. This is something quite exceptional!!
I am deeply impressed.
Dimitris V. Georgopoulos
Athens, Greece.