In other words, you were shooting from the hip and missed :-)). Paul -------------- Original message ---------------------- From: Godfrey DiGiorgi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Aug 27, 2007, at 10:44 PM, Bruce Dayton wrote: > > This one doesn't seem to work too well for me. I would really love > > your thoughts on this shot and what attracted you to it. I know that > > each of us sees things differently, but we can learn from each other > > and perhaps broaden our horizons. > > > >> http://homepage.mac.com/ramarren/photo/PAW7/36a.htm > > Hi Bruce, > > I like its off-angle asymmetries ... There are a lot of contrasting > dualities in it to my eye: > > - straight lines and smooth curves of the bench against the > randomized shapes of the trees in the background. > - tension drawn by that diagonal cut of the bench with its emptiness > balanced by the woman leaning hard the other way. > - contrast between his smile and her more romantic look. > - delicacy of her touch on his knee and the claw-like look of the > gnarled trees in the background. > - a big field of empty space against the crowded busyness of their > intimacy. > - harshness of the sunlight on her chest and the books in her lap > against the softness of her expression. > > All of these tensions give it a dynamism that drew my eye to it but > the oblong vertical format it started with made the movement die. > Cropping it tightly square locked all that movement and energy up > into a static frame: closed yet pulsating, alive. > > best, > Godfrey > > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
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