As for the white space, - I think once I "cropped" the way I explained, it became fine. Either I indeed "got used" to it, or the change in the amount of "dark" part played the role.
Brian, - I actually like the darkness of the clouds. - I second what Ann said about the clouds. Igor Thu Oct 20 20:54:46 EDT 2011 Stan Halpin wrote: I looked at Igor's comments, went back and looked at the image again a couple of times. I like it as it is. For me the large "blank" space in the middle is a very effective compositional element. In the first couple of seconds my gaze falls past that empty space to focus on the ship, then goes back to check the emptiness again, then the clouds, then back down to the ship. At which point I realize I need to step back, as it were, and look at the whole scene. There is tension because of the empty space, but the whole scene holds together nicely. On a related but different compositional matter, I was just reading a discussion of works by Canaletto, a Venetian painter back when. A great deal is made of his use of unnatural perspective by which the critics seem to mean that the scene must have been composed as though with a wide angle lens, there is no way the human eye could take in everything he presents. I've stood in the spot where one of his paintings was done, and I know it would take a 10-15mm lens to capture that scene. But for me his paintings work, maybe because I sometimes think in wide-angle terms, and the critics are maybe expecting him to stand with eyes front and capture just what he can see without turning his head. Which may be what is going on with your image as well. stan On Oct 20, 2011, at 6:44 PM, Brian Walters wrote: > 'Morning all... > > Thanks Bob, Larry, Ken, Tim, Ann, Dave, Chris, Igor - and all who took > a > look. > > A couple of responses.... > > > Igor - thanks for the detailed critique. I tried your cropping > suggestion and it works well although I like the uncropped image as > well. This seems to be one of those images that 'grows' on you (well, > me anyway). I was unsure about the darkness of the clouds, but the > more > often I came back to it the better I liked it. > > The black background and white border are both set by the current > JAlbum > settings and apply to all of the images in that PESO gallery. I don't > like the absolute black background either and I've been meaning to > tweak > the JAlbum style sheet to change that. I've tried a light to mid grey > but the background colour also applies to the index page and a light > grey doesn't seem to work well there. I'm leaning towards a dark > grey. > I'm less concerned about the white border but I'll play around with > that > as well. > > > Dave - Thanks. I don't know what you Kiwis have done to deserve the > year you've had but you should have a bit to cheer about tomorrow > night. > > > Cheers > > Brian -- 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.
