Rule of 3rd's & languages

[aam1234]

Some languages read from left to right, others from right to left. Yet some others from top to bottom.

And assuming the hypothesis that one's eyes approach a photo according to the way the person reads (i.e accustomed to), do you think the placement of an object in a frame is influenced by the language of that person.

What do you think.

[Ikinaa]

I don't know the answer to your question but I have an additional question : People that can't read and perhaps don't know which way to read, do they understand photographs or the composition of the photograph?

[ChrisN]

I have heard that the direction that you read, does influence where you start to look into a picture.

But with everything you shoot, the eye is naturally drawn to certain areas. The well taken photo will take the eye on a journey around the photograph, not make it bounce around and ultimately out of it.

I know people that have no eye for what is good composition, state what they like about an image and it is normally the same as what I would have said (could be saying something about me? I hope not LOL )

I think that attraction is part our our physical chemistry and it is not so much whether you can read, but whether you can see.