Luminous Landscape Forum
The Art of Photography => User Critiques => Topic started by: RSL on June 02, 2013, 01:21:21 pm
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That represents one of those difficult photographic situations: does one strive to get the dominant vertical or, alternatvely, the boss horizontal to look correct?
I think the answer generally tends to favour the central vertical element. But not always; probably not here, where the personal comfort of the pedestrian's sense of balance must come into play.
Balconies tend to look good in France, which makes me think that the Big Easy must offer much the same - Vieux Carré etc. Never been to that city, but loved the music from the age of sixteen when I first heard it.
Having written that, I have to confess to having looked for, and failed to find, much of value in that style during road trips through France; mostly, if one looked upwards, one was met by restaurant signs or the threat of a pigeon with loose bowels.
Rob C
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That represents one of those difficult photographic situations: does one strive to get the dominant vertical or, alternatvely, the boss horizontal to look correct?
On that matter I think I favour the vertical, always.
I am looking for more sign of life up there. A person might be too much, but perhaps a cup and saucer, or a wine glass, or (God forbid) and ashtray with a smouldering gasper.
But we can but take what we are given and Russ had been most adroit in that regard.
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...I have the strange sensation that I could somehow pedal it away into some future or other world... :)
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What struck me about it was the fact that I couldn't quite determine whether the chairs were vertical, held against a floor by normal gravity, or arranged horizontally, held against a wall by some abnormal force. This is a shot from below, but it almost looks as if I shot it from above and that instead of a table, that circular object in the middle is a decoration attached to the vertical bars of the railing. The other thing that caught my eye was the fact that I can't explain how that dark halo is suspended above the rest of the scene. All in all, it's almost a living example of the Penrose triangle or an Escher lithograph.
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Once you mentioned Escher, it all came together for me. Now I can flip it in my mind between above and below. Brilliant!
Eric M.
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What struck me about it was the fact that I couldn't quite determine whether the chairs were vertical, held against a floor by normal gravity, or arranged horizontally, held against a wall by some abnormal force. This is a shot from below, but it almost looks as if I shot it from above and that instead of a table, that circular object in the middle is a decoration attached to the vertical bars of the railing. The other thing that caught my eye was the fact that I can't explain how that dark halo is suspended above the rest of the scene. All in all, it's almost a living example of the Penrose triangle or an Escher lithograph.
Yes, that's what struck me about the image as I looked at it. Our son is a big Escher fan, and this had a similar feel to it.
Mike.
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...I have the strange sensation that I could somehow pedal it away into some future or other world... :)
It's nice when images take you beyond the surface, not of themselves, but of your own mind.
Catalytic Photography?
Rob C
P.S.
http://youtu.be/3uSLLd8eHy4
does it all the time.