Luminous Landscape Forum
The Art of Photography => User Critiques => Topic started by: dreed on March 11, 2013, 06:21:41 am
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This is another attempt at something that's a bit abstract. Sometimes when I look at this, it makes my brain hurt because there is no way that putting something up vertically seems to work for a "looking down" view - at least not one that implies motion such as that from the water.
What do others think?
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This is another attempt at something that's a bit abstract. Sometimes when I look at this, it makes my brain hurt because there is no way that putting something up vertically seems to work for a "looking down" view - at least not one that implies motion such as that from the water.
What do others think?
That's just the problem of knowing too much.
Had I not read your post, I would have thought myself looking at an interesting piece of marble. You have got to be able to divorce your mind from your eye sometimes. Take nature, life, a wall, whatever as your raw material and from it, fashion an independent image.
I think that without explanation, you shot works perfectly all right.
Rob C
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Right-hand side seems OK.
Would a higher vantage point (http://www.corbisimages.com/stock-photo/rights-managed/AD001207/surf-sequence-san-mateo-county-coast-california) help?
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This is an excellent capture, well seen.
Now, if one is after a more abstract interpretation (similar to Rob seeing it as marble), then an 8x10 crop, or even a square, of the leftmost side would work better.
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Thanks all for the feedback! I'll go away and have a play with editing to see if there is a better way to crop it.