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The Art of Photography => User Critiques => Topic started by: cjogo on February 27, 2014, 04:38:35 pm

Title: Latvia Walking
Post by: cjogo on February 27, 2014, 04:38:35 pm
Just one of my visits to Riga
Title: Re: Latvia Walking
Post by: Bruce Cox on February 27, 2014, 05:15:36 pm
For me, the composition gets tangled up with the white matte.
Title: Re: Latvia Walking
Post by: cjogo on February 27, 2014, 08:26:07 pm
Sorry -- when I send work to galleries -- it always has the matte around the image ...  
Title: Re: Latvia Walking
Post by: Bruce Cox on February 27, 2014, 09:48:16 pm
I worry about the windows.  They seem sad or worse, though the facade and tree are graceful enough.
Title: Re: Latvia Walking
Post by: cjogo on February 28, 2014, 01:44:38 am
I thought every thing lined up pretty well -- A fixed ~ 150mm lens ~ from the middle of the street... Just geo shapes -- not sure if I even thought of them as windows :-)
Title: Re: Latvia Walking
Post by: wolfnowl on February 28, 2014, 01:54:44 am
I actually like the mat - it extends the separation between the upper and lower windows and gives a sense of a white wall.

Mike.
Title: Re: Latvia Walking
Post by: cjogo on February 28, 2014, 02:08:35 am
I actually like the mat - it extends the separation between the upper and lower windows and gives a sense of a white wall.

Mike.

Thanks -- when I submit images -- I always place a mat around  the image -- when it is delivered to a gallery >> that's the presentation...
Title: Re: Latvia Walking
Post by: Bruce Cox on February 28, 2014, 09:39:16 am
I actually like the mat - it extends the separation between the upper and lower windows and gives a sense of a white wall.

Mike.

Yes, making the mat part of the image seems the better choice.  A beveled overlapping mat, however will show its interior edge and not integrate as fully as the one on the screen.
Title: Re: Latvia Walking
Post by: francois on February 28, 2014, 09:59:20 am
I'm not bothered at all by the matte and I like the two windows -  two shapes concept.
Title: Re: Latvia Walking
Post by: PeterAit on February 28, 2014, 10:55:23 am
I love your photo! It's just the sort of thing that would catch my eye, although I probably would not have executed it so well. Lovely tonalities. I might consider a slight crop at the top to remove the dark horizontal line.
Title: Re: Latvia Walking
Post by: cjogo on February 28, 2014, 02:16:51 pm
I love your photo! It's just the sort of thing that would catch my eye, although I probably would not have executed it so well. Lovely tonalities. I might consider a slight crop at the top to remove the dark horizontal line.

I guess I dissect each image vertically and horizontally> when framing my image  ... I can completely remove the top half of the image because of the thin black line.... there are four strong horizontal lines.