Dave, The teacher of photographic composition in my third year of photography school told a story that is apt for your diptych. He took a locally successful exhibition to China in the '70s, but at its first showing it got a disappointing reception. Upon investigation he found that the pictures didn't "flow" to Chinese eyes. What he realized was that principles of movement in composition are highly connected to the written language of the viewer. So occidental eyes prefer top to bottom and left to right movement (or sequence) in pictures. Oriental eyes want movement (or sequence)that goes right to left and bottom to top. He reprinted the show with the negatives flipped and got a better response.
The sequence of your pic seems to put the ground level drain on the left before the higher leaky barrel? pipe? or whatever which is on the right, therefore later in the narrative. But that object was placed higher in space, leading to the discomforting conclusion that water has flowed upwards. Flip the picture yourself and see what you think. There will still be the disparity of a high level object and a ground level object being placed side-by-side on the same viewing level, but at least the narrative will flow (pardon the pun) in a natural sequence to Western eyes. Regards, Anthony Farr > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > David Savage > Sent: Saturday, 5 April 2008 3:59 PM > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List > Subject: PESO: The rains are here > > G'day All, > > Earlier Godfrey posted his triptych, it just so happens I've recently > put together a diptych (~170kb) > > <http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2155/2388391017_c0979d55ce_o.jpg> > > Left image K20D, DA 10-17mm f3.5-4.5 FE @ 17mm, 1/180 @ f4.5, ISO 1600 > (-w- built in flash) > Right image K20D, FA* 300mm f4, 1/320 @ f4.5, ISO 1600 > > Cheers, > > Dave > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > 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 PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
