Luminous Landscape Forum
The Art of Photography => User Critiques => Topic started by: Dale Villeponteaux on January 24, 2016, 06:50:00 pm
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I like this, but am not sure it works.
Thanks,
Dale
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I like it too, a lot in fact, however I would say this needs some of the cluttered top removed/cropped, for me it's too tall now, a lower height would allow one's attention to end up and stay at the bottom half, where the 'action' is.
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I like it as well...this shot leans toward the surreal. For it to be successful, it needs to be perfectly straight, vertical and symmetrical. in other words not leaning toward the right.
Peter
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It's interesting in some respects - I would crop all the top off down to just above the black horizontal "architrave" just so a little glass(?) is showing. That arch and the reflection in it doesn't support any thing below...only distracts. /B
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I like it as well...this shot leans toward the surreal. For it to be successful, it needs to be perfectly straight, vertical and symmetrical. in other words not leaning toward the right.
Peter
+1
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Thank you for your comments. I straightened the verticals but did not notice the asymmetrical
horizontal at the top.
Again, thank you
Dale
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BTW, a real PITA to straighten the top horizontal,
I had to go back to the RAW file and rework the
entire image.
Regards,
Dale
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I had to go back to the RAW file and rework the
entire image.
Often that's how we learn ;)
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At first glance, I wasn't sure what you saw in the image. With cord in front and the sign to the right of the stall, it appears to be a document photo of a museum exhibit.
Of course, that's perhaps the point of the image - this great breed of horse being reduced to a museum exhibit for tourists to gawk at. The life of the horse doesn't exist beyond the museum-like life it leads. Sad, really and the photograph portrays this. Well seen (I think, but I'm not sure that was your original intention with this photo).
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This is a severe crop of what was a simple tourist shot for a memento only.
I was attracted to the crop because of the contrast between the geometry of the building
and the more organic form of the horse. The contrast has implications, of course, but they
were not in the forefront of my thinking.
I also reversed the horse so that it looked into the picture rather than out. But then no one
cares how hard you worked. I believe a got that phrase from one of Ctein's articles on TOP but
my memory is not now what it ever was.
I've appended the current final version, slightly sharpened.
Thanks for looking and thinking,
Dale