CENTERED
Elephant’s eye, Thailand, 1998
Off-center is certainly the most popular idea for placing a subject, and tends to come naturally to practiced photographers, but don’t let the accompanying criticism of dead-centered, bull’s-eye positioning make you believe it has no use. Far from it, there are any number of situations in which centering the main subject makes a firm and strong statement. Here is one: the unusually bright orange eye of a Thai elephant; and this makes a difference—a more normal elephant eye is not so insistent. Eyes attract attention more strongly than probably any other kind of subject, and this one is both colorful and ...
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