On Feb 20, 2011, at 9:51 PM, William Robb wrote: > On 20/02/2011 7:44 PM, Larry Colen wrote: >> I've been thinking about how I compose shots, and I've realized that I often >> go to more effort to hide things that I think will detract from the shot, >> than I do trying to make everything that I might want is visible. I'd often >> rather do two "detail" photos, each with a clean background, rather than one >> photo with everything in it, if the background has something I don't like. >> >> However, I often spend a lot of time trying to compose my photos with two >> thematically contrasting objects, so I don't only think about hiding things, >> but what I'm showing as well. >> >> When you compose shots, do you think that your style is more about showing >> things, or hiding things? >> >> c > > Wow! > You probably have no idea what a big question that it.
Yes I do. That's why I wanted to hear the thoughts of photographers that I respect. (insert obligatory smartass comment about asking the PDML instead) > Mostly I try to show what I want to show and not show what I don't want to > show. I expect that this is something everyone does to some extent or other. Some people, however, tend to lean more one direction, some the other. I've noticed that I tend to do a lot more towards isolating my subject, which is why I tend to shoot longer lenses. Other people would rather put up with clutter to get the full context, and would probably shoot closer, with wider lenses. > > > -- > > William Robb > > -- > 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. -- Larry Colen [email protected] sent from i4est -- 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.
