Dave, Amazingly the additional information you supplied went a long way to resolving the visual anomaly. Once I knew that the downpipe was actually higher than the leak the laws of nature were restored. Objects that were unfamiliar to me had been isolated to the extent that they lacked contextual information from their surroundings. But thanks to your correction I can see that what I took to be the lowest object, the downpipe outlet, is actually the highest object. However, picturing it from above has made it appear lower, while picturing the leaky tank from below has made it appear higher.
Yours is a good concept well worth the telling. What I'm getting at is that when you put images into sequences you should maintain a stylistic and relational consistency throughout. If you look at photo sequences you'll often find an element from one shot is carried over to the next to link the series, Godfrey's triptych that you reference <http://homepage.mac.com/godders/59-focusing.jpg> is very tight in this respect. And if the jump from one shot to the next is great, then there shouldn't be other big changes such as viewing angles and perspectives. But here you have a close shot with wide FOV, deep DOF and a downward POV followed by a long shot with narrow FOV, shallow DOF and upward POV. Added to the fact that no part of one shot is visible in the other and the relationship between the two shots is substantially broken. Hell, even the metal of the tank is rendered so differently that it isn't obviously the same tank. Perhaps the second shot should include the downpipe. Of course rules are made to be broken, I hear my critics shout. And it's true that a diptych, triptych or whatever isn't necessarily a photo-series/sequence, it may simply be a grouping of abstractly connected images. True, but Dave's diptych is definitely a sequence, and would work better if scene-building rules such as cinematic or theatrical rules were used as a guide. If you think I'm being harsh, it's because I've seen such excellent work from you on other occasions. Regards, Anthony Farr > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > David Savage > Sent: Sunday, 6 April 2008 12:50 AM > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List > Subject: Re: PESO: The rains are here > > I can see how it could be confusing. > > The leaking tank in the right most frame is for rain water collection. > It's about 4' high on a 1' plinth. > > The shot on the left is the downpipe from the roof guttering over the > top of the tank which supplies the rain water. > > :-) > > So the sequence is correct, rain filling a tank, tank leaking the rain. :-) > > 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.
