To butt in here - The inclusion of the people totally changes the image, making some sort of statement about people in nature. While the surf & rocks are simply a nice image of nature in the wild.
Either way the two images could (with the noted criticism incorporated) stand by their own, it really depends on what Bruce intended to capture. Kenneth Waller http://www.tinyurl.com/272u2f ----- Original Message ----- From: "William Robb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: PESO - Untitled > > ----- 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. -- 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.
