----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: PESO - Untitled
>I disagree. Without the people it's just another shot of waves breaking on >the shore. the people on the bench give it reason to live. A bit of >juxtaposition. Nah, the people are a distracton from the real subject, which is the interplay of the waves and rocks. I understand where you are coming from, but including the people weakens the composition. In the first example, the people caused the composition to exclude the tips of the rocks, thereby weakening the picture, in much the same way that cutting the subject's head off weakens a portriat, and in the second example, including the top of the rocks, while insisting on keeping the people in the picture causes everything to be too distant, and weakens the picture by not having a real subject to key on. One could equally say that pictures of people sitting on park benches are a dime a dozen, but a powerful composition of nature at it's best are few and far between. This could have been the latter, or it could have been a dime a dozen picture of people on a park bench, but as both, it is an abject failure. Sorry Bruce, for picking apart your picture so brutally, and sorry Marnie, for making a critique, rather than slavering over the nonexistent wonderfulness of this picture. And sorry Paul, for disagreeing with you, but I am so obviously right, and you, so obviously wrong, that I am certain that with sober second thought, you will surely see the error of your thought process and bring yourself around to my way of thinking. EB (but in a nice way). -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
