Thanks, Darren, Your thoughts are most appreciated! And I agree with everything you said.
Bottom line (if I might be immodest for a moment) I think the photo works as is, tilt or no. Thanks again! Cheers, frank On 11 July, 2015 7:00:40 PM EDT, Darren Addy <[email protected]> wrote: >Frank, I *love* this image and the inclusion of the person in the >frame really makes it more than it would have been without him. Love >the colors and the mix of light, the odd round reflections in the >alleyway shadows. Just a lot for the eye to move around with. > >As for the tilt, you know me... it is normally one of my pet peeves >but I don't think this image has much of a tilt to it at all. I think >what is playing with our eye is that you were not standing directly on >the center line of the alley when you took it AND that there are lots >of off-kilter parts to the houses in the background. Your vertical >lines are very close to perfectly vertical -and since you were off >center, the middle line of the alley is not going to be perfectly >centered. I tend to think that some of the problems are that you've >got aged houses in the background that may be deviating from square >over time. > >As to Bob W's quotes... I agree with them. But the question is: Was is >a conscious choice... made either at the time the exposure was made or >when the image was cropped? Or was one going for "square/level" but >missed it? Big difference (to me). Bottom line is... the image either >"works" or it doesn't. This image works Big Time, for me. > >On Sat, Jul 11, 2015 at 8:53 AM, Bob W-PDML <[email protected]> >wrote: >> Garry Winogrand, when asked why he didn't keep the horizon level, >replied something to them effect that it was because it's not level in >the real world. >> >> Claude Chabrol, and indeed other film directors, often tilt it quite >subtly to instil a sense of unease and a feeling that something is out >of whack, as if you're suddenly adrift. >> >> B >> >> >> >>> On 11 Jul 2015, at 13:16, Knarf <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Thanks, Paul! >>> >>> I did notice the slight tilt when I was processing but I decided to >leave it. Most of the buildings in Kensington are old (by Toronto >standards) and the neighbourhood is populated by non-conformists, >punks, neo-hippies and the like. Some of buildings are actually a bit >tilted. >>> >>> The tilt was purposely left alone in this photo. Whether it would be >better straightened or not is up to the viewer but it's there quite >purposely. >>> >>> Thanks for the comment! >>> >>> Cheers, >>> >>> frank >>> >>>> On 9 July, 2015 9:42:25 PM EDT, Paul Stenquist ><[email protected]> wrote: >>>> Nice shot, great venue. I'd like to see it rotated a bit to >straighten >>>> out the verticals. >>>> >>>> Paul via phone >>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> On Wed, Jul 8, 2015 at 9:27 PM, frank theriault >>>>>> <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>>>> I got down to Toronto's Kensington Market on the weekend. I'd >never >>>>>>> noticed this little alleyway before, with the row houses at the >>>> end. >>>>>>> No room for cars, just pedestrians, which is pretty cool to me: >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >http://knarfdummyblog.blogspot.ca/2015/07/alleyway-in-market.html >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Typically colourful Kensington. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >> >> -- >> 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. -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. -- 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.
