BLC

I pay particular attention to the BLC (bottom left corner) of my photographs. The BLC matters. It has the power to urge the viewer’s eye into the image. So I always try to put something there: a bush, a tree, a clump of grass, a road, a shadow, something. 

Here, the bush in the BLC is doing fine work pointing us to the leading line of Boise Ridge Road, which walks us right across the scene. Textbook.

But the menacing bush in the lower middle is not helping. It’s just sitting there like it owns the place, pulling  the viewer’s eye down just when things were going so well. I tried moving the camera up, down, left, right, up again. I could not get around that bush. I tried. The bush won.

And the tall trees beside the road. They’re too short. If the taller one could just clear the horizon line, it would be perfect. I tried to lower the camera to give it height, but then I lost the road. I need the road. 

And don’t even get me started on the TLC.