The compositional rule that is used in the first photograph is viewpoint. I chose the compositional rule of viewpoint because this compositional rule had made important affect to my photograph and makes the photograph more related to my topic by making the people smaller (also by comparing to the tree). I have taken the photograph from my house which is in the 3rd floor. I felt like if people looks smaller, it could also mean that the person has lesser confidence for facing other people so he is staying alone. And the tree with no leaves could add that expression.

The second photo used leading lines, balancing elements. But one big compositional rule that I have chose overall is leading lines. The leading lines are used to lead our eyesight to the white building at the end. And as it leads our eyesight to the white building, we can see the big empty road without any cars or people passing by. To the fact that there is nobody passing this place by, I feel like, that place is going to be quiet and no people inside working.

The third photograph had used viewpoint, and rule of thirds. But the overall compositional rule that I have chosen is viewpoint. I have taken the photo from the third floor up so it makes the affect of making the objects more smaller. First thing that I saw in this photograph is old house where I think that there can’t be anyone living there (but there is actually people living there. As there aren’t any leaves on the tree, and the open space adds me the thinking of that fact. And the compositional rule of viewpoint had vitalized my thinking the most.

I think the forth photograph is using composition of leading lines and depth. The one composition rule that I have chosen overall is leading lines even though depth used in this photograph is similar to leading lines. Leading lines in this photographs are used to lead our eyes to the end of the empty road and the empty orange sky. Also as they were leading my eyes to the end of the road, my eyes also automatically went to the buildings on the side. These type of buildings are common to see in Vientiane roads (houses that aren’t splendid, especially the house that looks like it is going to fall in front) . Without any people in front, and only houses where people live in added my thinking to lead to my topic.

There are lots of compositional rules used in this photograph and all of them are important so I can’t choose one. First of all, compositional rule used was depth. It is because the sand in the bottom is the object that is in the front and river, is at the back/ under the sand. Same with the trees on the back of the river, and lastly, sun is farthest out even though it is the biggest. The last compositional rule that this photograph could be using is symmetry. The reason is, if there wasn’t any sun, the photograph would be symmetry but because there is the sun on the left, it breaks off the compositional rule of symmetry and make the sun more stand out.

The compositional rule that was used in this photographs are, rule of thirds. The rule of thirds is used with the building and the bed and the building that looks empty. Those two objects is caught in the grids of third in this photograph. This element could make people think about poorness about Laos but I chose this photograph because when you look at the photograph carefully, in the photograph there is a bed looking object in front of the door. As the bed is not big, I think there couldn’t be more than 1 or 2 people on it. This could also lead to the idea that there aren’t lot of people living in this house. And the building behind the bed looked empty. So I thought my guess could match with the main idea that I wanted to express.