Wire chairs

lovely Mr. Sly!

Gosh I like this. It looks like a pair of eyes looking back at me from under a furrowed brow.

Very nice. Makes me think of Kertesz.

Excellent patterns! Great white on black!

Excellent B&W photo...belongs on the front of an Ilford box

As you have posted this on the critique gallery, can I say that I like the shapes and contrast, but not the composition.

Thanks to all. Peter - your assumptions are showing! Clive, I wouldn't post to the critique gallery, if I was thin skinned. Can you make a suggestion for improvement? The thing that bothers me the most is the table leg on the far left, but can't crop it without loosing the chair. I could always go back and reshoot, if they haven't been put away.

sly said:

Can you make a suggestion for improvement? The thing that bothers me the most is the table leg on the far left, but can't crop it without loosing the chair. I could always go back and reshoot, if they haven't been put away.

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It is very difficult, if not impossible to suggest improvement, without seeing the original scene. I would have thought that tilting the camera up would give more sweeping arcs within the frame, allowing for the bottom left seat circle to form a tangent to the left and bottom frame edge. Although it's not the leg of the chair bottom left that bothers me, but the imbalance of black (bottom right). However, for all I know there could have been a teapot an inch into shot above the top of the frame (if you see what I mean). In general circles and arcs in rectangular and square frames make great compositions and I love the contrast you achieved in this shot. Does that help?

Like the composition!