I think there is way too much going on in the scene, too many
elements that don't relate to one another.
Distracting sidewalk and bedding material, parking lot, red curb,
cars and trucks, rocky green hillside... Oh yeah, then you have those
two big ugly red and yellow things in the foreground with no obvious
relationship to any of the other elements.
I tried a few crops, couldn't make anything much better out of the
scene angles you have.
I assume you don't care whether the hydrant and pipes look like what
they are or not - you just like the nice rich colors and the
contrast, right? In that case what I would do (and what I tried to do
in my cropping exercises) is to get a low angle tight shot of the
yellow hydrant, with that filling 2/3 of the left side of the frame,
and the remainder of the frame an out-of-focus red blur which is the
pipes in the background. Try to avoid everything else - sky,
hillside, ground, sidewalk, etc. Just go for your two basic picture
elements.
To paraphrase another's comment: sometimes a scene like this is like
an attractive woman; once you strike up a conversation, you find that
she really has nothing to say.
stan
On Feb 22, 2009, at 12:28 AM, Larry Colen wrote:
Yesterday, I took a few minutes off to wander about outside the office
with my K100 + DA40. I thought I'd get some shots of some recently
painted fire plumbing that was a very pretty shade of red. I tried
juxtaposing it with the bright yellow fire hydrant and the green hills
with a rock outcropping nearby.
I don't feel that the shot quite worked. One thing I may try is a
longer lens to flatten the perspective and bring the outcropping in
more. I'd greatly appreciate other suggestions of what to try to make
this shot work.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/sets/72157614202014625/
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