Just to make things more complicated, could it also depend on which one you see first?

Or even, how recently you read a book on composition?

As I said, I'm right-handed and prefer #2.

Also, I'm right eye dominant, if that makes a difference.

Depends what mood you want. As JohnR said, #1 is wistful, whereas #2 has a slight air of menace. Which one do you want?

I prefer #2, but the image set me thinking along more general lines, so I've started a thread.

I’ve just been looking at womble’s ‘Two takes on the same image’ images/thread and it set me to thinking. I like the image, but…

Something about it niggled. Then I realised what - in my opinion, the image looks better flipped. That way the lead-in lines seem to flow better. This in turn set me thinking about composition and learned behaviour.

I am English and English is my native language. In English we learn to read left-to-right, which presumably feeds into the concepts of composition we learn. However, I’m also right-handed and I’ve also noticed that some younger children who are left handed try to write right-to-left.

So, a couple of questions:

1. Are there any members of the board whose native language reads right-to-left (or bottom-to-top)? And does it affect how the leading lines in an image work best for them?
2. Any left-handers who feel something/anything similar?

Or is it just me?

Oh, and I'm not dissing womble or his image/composition, just using it as an example.

They weren't always...



from 1979

I think the 'No returns accepted' isn't a good sign either.

My LF1 is always in my jacket pocket.

Yeah, I know, not Pentax. Unfortunately, there is no Pentax equivalent. C'est la vie.

Can't help thinking Pentax missed a bit off a chance there with the KP.

Make it more symmetrical and have a larger (optional extra) grip, with built in shutter release ( and maybe a control wheel) available in left or right-hand options, connection sockets on the front of the body and there you go - the option of a left-handed camera!

That would have caused a bit of a stir.

It always struck me as odd that they were gloss black and not matt.

Presumably the point of black bodies was to make them less conspicuous, but the gloss black still reflected enough light to produce tell-tale flashes; though possibly not as much as silver bodies.