>>2587101Just to reinforce what
>>2587109 said.
I'm going to take this photo of yours and
>>2587087 this one and explain why one works and the other doesn't.
As
>>2587109 said, storytelling and context are massively important. Your shot, whilst making some quite good, brave choices on negative space and framing, the only story there is to tell is "Fairly well to do middle aged, married man looks at train timetable in sunny, but brisk weather in the greater anglia area" Lots of information, but holy fuck, none of it is interesting and the only questions that can be asked are; "did he catch his train", "did the weather take a turn for the worse", "where did he get that dashing leather satchel". It's all pedestrian, boring moments, similar to the moments that 95% of us experience. And this is where the photo stops, there is very little open to interpretation.
In the above picture we have an old chair and sleeping bag in what I presume to be a scruffy part of Bristol. This opens up lots of questions; "Why are they still there", "what happened here last night". The positioning, lighting, shape and colour all suggest the sleeping bag is the focus of the shot, not only does it have narrative but there is also a vaguely human shape formed by the bag that adds a comedic narrative as it mimics the shapes and behaviour of a drunk slumped against a chair with the only thing keeping it upright being the back of the chair.
If we get right down to the nitty gritty, this is an almost perfect example of subject isolation without resorting to bokeh or flash. The sleeping bag is the only instance of blue, it's placed on the 2/3, it's the only example of curved lines in the entire shot (whilst the rest is very heavily based on square shapes), the V shape give it weight and purpose in place and on a more aesthetic level "it pops" without looking unnatural.
Find narrative, simplify it, make all the components work.
