This photo, titled Dropping Ball, was done by one of my favorite fashion photographers, Juergen Teller. The allied colors calm the eye, and yet they are playfully contradicted by the anticipation of the ball that is about to fall in the water. The eye is first drawn to the ball since it is dead center, (also the only complimentary relationship in the photograph) and illuminated by the flash. The composition continues to move the eye around the picture, to the hand which reaches for the ball, the highlights on the water, and back up to the ball's shadow. Lastly my eye notices the the diagonal lines in the wall paper, leading me back to the center of the frame. Interestingly enough the ball is the only thing in the picture which is entirely in the frame, and yet its obvious path of travel unites it with the other objects which (although they travel in an out of the frame) are also frozen in their movement- the water and hand. The composition of the picture magically ties together the movement of objects, color, and lines to glamorize an otherwise 'ordinary' situation.
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