Luminous Landscape Forum
The Art of Photography => User Critiques => Topic started by: Heinz on April 04, 2011, 01:08:01 am
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I took this image in the Khalahari desert.
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The light is lovely. I think I see your goal in framing it the way you did but for me it's just a bit overdone. The pussycat looks too cramped: I'd like to see just a little more of him.
Jeremy
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No, Felix looks cool, it's just that for it to work better for me, it requires even more space on the right: a panoramic camera (with rapid af, of course) would have made the feeling of danger intruding just that little bit stronger. Alternatively, if it's a crop, try forming the pic by using more background but cropping down and upwards.
There's a painting by one of the now-defunct Scottish artists (whose name escapes me right now) of a little person herding a family of ducks out of the left side of the frame. One duck is similarly cut, and it marked a whole new direction for the accepted face of composition within certain schools of artistic thought. However, they may have been geese, but I suppose that wouldn't alter the dynamic...
If you are willing to leap sideways a little bit, there's a similar concept at work in a beautiful shot from Francis Giacobetti in the 1970 Pirelli of, I think, Alexandra Bastedo wearing a string bikini whilst sitting on the sand at the extreme left of the frame, except that she's looking out, as were the feathered friends in the earlier example: magnifique! So yes, unusual sometimes works very well indeed.
( Thought I'd give examples just to keep feppe happy... ;-) )
Rob C
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Thank you for looking and commenting guy's. This chap was on mission and i tried get get that feeling into the pic. I have other images of him where i have zoomed out and he fills the frame, but this comp, i think, conveys that feeling a little better. Heinz.
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The light is lovely. I think I see your goal in framing it the way you did but for me it's just a bit overdone. The pussycat looks too cramped: I'd like to see just a little more of him.
Jeremy
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I think if you wanted to go that tight on the lion he needs to fill the frame a bit more. Otherwise, if you're going for the lion's activity we need more of the landscape he's in. But on the whole it's a fine portrait. The old boy certainly has his share of battle scars.
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I think if you wanted to go that tight on the lion he needs to fill the frame a bit more. Otherwise, if you're going for the lion's activity we need more of the landscape he's in. But on the whole it's a fine portrait. The old boy certainly has his share of battle scars.
Just the wrath of earwigs; they breed them for the tourists.
Rob C
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I think if you wanted to go that tight on the lion he needs to fill the frame a bit more. Otherwise, if you're going for the lion's activity we need more of the landscape he's in. But on the whole it's a fine portrait. The old boy certainly has his share of battle scars.
My thoughts exactly.
Mike.
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Thanx guy's. It's always an awesome feeling when you are so close to these animals. Cheers Heinz