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Post by sekhmet on Mar 18, 2008 10:29:12 GMT -5
While on a stroll in Ingonish, Nova Scotia, I was struck by the shadows of the birches on the lichen covered rock. I took a bunch of photos and I've messed with them quite a bit. Which one do you prefer? Is it a worthwhile photo? I've lost my perspective.   |
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Post by millring on Mar 18, 2008 11:24:18 GMT -5
I like things about both. I think I like the top better. The bottom looks like something that's been filtered to look like a painting.
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Post by Cornflake on Mar 18, 2008 11:32:19 GMT -5
I agree with Millring. I usually like lots of contrast but in this case I think it eliminates too much of what makes the picture. Good one.
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Post by sekhmet on Mar 18, 2008 15:05:41 GMT -5
thanks guys. I was trying to decide if the thing needed the context of the top one, as Flake pointed out. John, it does, doesn't it? No crappy two-bit filters for me. I made that mess all on my own!
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Post by sekhmet on Mar 18, 2008 15:07:32 GMT -5
the abstract stuff is my attempt to hit a line between reality and abstraction - so that there is a sort of gestalt - now you see it now you don't. So that is what the bottom one is about.
My question initially was to see what people thought. Sounds like the more literal one is more pleasing.
But I wonder if it would have been if I hadn't shown it to you....
oh the agony!
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Post by Dan McLaughlin on Mar 18, 2008 20:37:19 GMT -5
Kate, I like them both, for different reasons. The top one is very natural and makes me feel that I am actually there. The bottom one is does the same thing. What I feel is, the top one makes me feel like Summer, while the bottom one feels more like Spring.
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Post by Marshall on Mar 19, 2008 12:30:32 GMT -5
Gesundheit !
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Post by Cornflake on Mar 19, 2008 18:01:12 GMT -5
Sekh, the "right" answer obviously depends on what you want to emphasize in the photograph and where you want the eye to go.
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Post by sekhmet on Mar 19, 2008 18:39:51 GMT -5
Well Don, I tend toward the top one simply for pleasing forms .. but I am attempting to approach the line between the recognizable and the abstract, and cut it really close, so that the object is not recognizable immediately and then suddenly it is. I want that tension in the viewer.
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Post by Cornflake on Mar 19, 2008 21:19:37 GMT -5
I like the idea. It's a worthwhile goal.
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Post by John B on Mar 22, 2008 17:09:23 GMT -5
I like the first one; but if I had seen the second in isolation, I know I would like it.
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Post by sekhmet on Mar 25, 2008 22:50:13 GMT -5
Because of all that stuff I said above, I think I've decided I like the darker, more abstract, one on the bottom.
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