New Orleans Square, Disneyland, California

This guy made for a great picture. The way he dressed, his happy expression, the texture of his face, and what he was doing really came together as a dramatic photo. To get the length of the guitar in the photo plus the upper body of the subject (who was at a perpendicular angle to the guitar), I used the longest lengths of the frame. Often times, people will just use a wide angle lens and use the curvature of the lens to get more into the photo. While this works, it also distorts the image greatly. Things in the distance will appear much smaller. Objects on the edges of the frames will bend because of the curve of the lens. You lose things like straight lines. The longest lengths of the frame are the diagonal corners. So, from top left to bottom right and top right to bottom left. I lined up the guitar to be at one corner and the man's head at another corner. This also helps to create a triangle using the right side of the frame. The viewer's mind will get a sense of stability from the triangles it perceived from the man's hand to face to guitar head and from the man's head to the guitar to the right side of the frame. But the diagonal lines drawn from the man's bodyline and the guitar's bodyline create a sense of excitement.