Hi Lasse, it is really enjoying to read your thoughts about the photograph. I just nod in agreement with them. I took just one frame of this scene since it was there only for 20 secs or so. I just framed it like it seemed to me the best at the time. Interesting idea about the empty space on the left as well. I might use it if the opportunity comes. Recently, I sold one photograph exactly for marketing reason. Maybe there will be another. :) Many thanks for writing your thoughts, Matjaz
> "The Sea", by Matjaz Osojnik, Slovenia > > I seem to recall someone suggesting another crop and symmetry to this > picture. I like it fine just as it is. The assymetrical character sort of > gives my mind more "space", and allows it to wander a bit, than had it > been perfectly symmetrically arranged. However, I do think that a motif > like this, very simple (not sure of the connotations of this word in > English, no pejorative intended) and clean, can be cropped and arrranged > in many different ways without necessarily being compromised quality wise. > To me they may simply end up as being different pictures, not necessarily > better or worse (although you could spoil it too of course...). I must > admit too, that one of my initial impressions of it was like: "Fine, the > great empty space to the left can be used for (any type of) commercial or > information messages. Not sure whether the artist would like any such > heresy be done to his picture though :). Concerning the rendition of the > water surface, there are two opposite wishes in my mind. On the one hand I > wouldn't mind getting a clearer, "closer", rendition of the water surface > - I don't know whether the original allows for this; on the other hand I > don't mind the the water being just a blue surface, since there is a > general formalistic(?) touch to the whole picture. (By this I mean that I > haven't perceived Matjaz wanting to really depict a subjective experience > of any dramarical boat ride, but rather using the elements for a more > formal depiction of elements.) It is simply what I'd call "a nice > picture", however trivial it may sound. - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
