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The last post. Woman with flowery face mask and handbag. Guy sat with a sign. It’s not important, just that someone commented that it was a “good triangular composition” on FB, right after I commented here. Coincidence.

Don’t know if we’re talking avout the same post. Is it the last one ? Or the one with the two ladies and the bottle of water. Anyway, in both of them I see triangles. As you said, sometimes it’s done unconsciously because it’s something anchored in our minds and we do it without thinking. It happened to me most of the time : a mechanical thing done unconsciously

Perhaps we use it unconsciously. Take a look at the last post 3 or 4 days ago) I uploaded to Instagram. I know you’re not officially on Social Media. See if there’s a triangle in that composition.

Triangles or any other geometry shapes are important in painting, photography. The eye knows these shapes and are attracted by them. Triangles won’t make a good photo for sure but they can add some interest to the overall composition. Street photography is one of the very few genre where rules have to be broken. You can do street photography according to certain rules of composition but most of the time these rules have to be broken just to go your own way.

My eyes are constanly scanning for connections in the streets. Sometimes I see something interesting (urban art, wall, any urban element) or some interesting character and I try to link it with someone or something else, then come the triangle thing. There has to be something else . It doesn’t work every time. But I keep trying to add something else. Of course the result is a subjective thing as I made the photo according to my rules. Besides this, I follow very litlle rules in Street Photography now, but the one I always keep in mind is that Triangle thing. As I said it could be real geometry shapes or just invisble ones linking points of interest.. In this last case, triangles are juste here to emphasize on the fact that one should’nt focus on only single subjects in the frame. I did that a lot when I started SP. Close-up just to mask the emptiness of my compositions … In more complex with more points of interest, the image comes alive and your eyes travels in the frame to get all the information. About real triangles in photos, I like them pretty much. My eye are attracted by triangles. I like that shape and I find them dynamic. When I try to make a photo with real triangles, it’s like a geometry homework I need to do
Have a great week end John !