Originally posted by Jonniboy: The think the leapt out at me when I saw this (nice pic BTW) was the vanishing point on the left. You've got strong converging lines and the brightest part of the picture there on the left leading the eye out of the frame. I think this works well because it suggests there's more to see which keeps me interested in the picture. However, I think it works even better if you flip the picture left to right. Western viewers tend to "read" pictures left to right (people who read their language right to left unsurprisingly tend to read pictures right to left). It looks "odd" if an image doesn't fit with this style. Sometimes surprising the viewer can work really well but often it just kind of confuses them. This is why a lot of (western) landscapes have a stopper (like a tree) on the rhs.
THIS is the lesson in this image :) All it needs is a horizontal mirror flip to work much better... :)
After looking at this image with a horizontal mirror, I believe that I still like the original format best. In the original, the lines are disappearing out of the frame on the left, and that doesn't really work well for me.... However, flipping it horizontally gives the impression that the train is moving out of the frame on the left... I dunno... Maybe this shot would have been better done from a head on perspective rather than trying to shoot at an angle... I will do another set of this stuff when I go back to this museum...
Originally posted by David Ey: When you go back would you shoot one with the light more on the center to two-o-clock of the wheel?
I have no control over the lighting, so it would depend on what time of day i was there and if the rear doors on the roundhouse were open.. I think my next set will be quite different from these... I made over 100 photos on this trip... i may try to do some closeups for 'form and function' purposes next time around...
Hello I do not have that much time (I am at work and a big pile of project ) I should not have add this favorite to my browser but I have to say I like the colors a lot in the color version and maybe I like the picture a little more in color, the vanishing point ‘pb’ is less obvious because the shape is less .. popping out. Really all the tones of the colors are just GREAT. I had something I would like your opinion please. I Q: I have a tendancy to think that something should be fully in the picture, or ½ but that a 1/20 of an object inside the frame or a 1/20 of an object outside the frame in not very good. So I have a tendancy (do not get me wrong I like this picture a lot) that the wheel on the left should be fully ‘in’ or that a bigger part of it should be missing. Any idea about that ? I am using this picture and this thread but that’s what I am trying to do to my picture so .. I would like your opinions guys.
Originally posted by lionelm: Hello I do not have that much time (I am at work and a big pile of project ) I should not have add this favorite to my browser but I have to say I like the colors a lot in the color version and maybe I like the picture a little more in color, the vanishing point ‘pb’ is less obvious because the shape is less .. popping out. Really all the tones of the colors are just GREAT. I had something I would like your opinion please. I Q: I have a tendancy to think that something should be fully in the picture, or ½ but that a 1/20 of an object inside the frame or a 1/20 of an object outside the frame in not very good. So I have a tendancy (do not get me wrong I like this picture a lot) that the wheel on the left should be fully ‘in’ or that a bigger part of it should be missing. Any idea about that ? I am using this picture and this thread but that’s what I am trying to do to my picture so .. I would like your opinions guys.
Anyway : Nice shot Lionel
I understand what you are saying here...
What you do and don't include in the frame has several factors involved in making that decision... First of all, if you include more of one thing, it's also going to include more of other things. In this case, including more of anything would have also included more of the floor. The floor here was not pretty to look at :)
It's all in the eye of the photographer. It also depends on the particular object in question. In this case, the wheel...
You have to ask yourself how much certain aspects of the photo matter in the overall picture :)
Originally posted by lionelm: That make sense ! When it's a still or a 'studio' controlled picture it's easier , I di not thought in that case about the ground.
Do you think that it's a 'valid' rule for a still picture or a 'fully controlled' picture ?
And I really love that color in the color version. How would you call it in english ? 'copper' ?
Lionel
In a studio or in controlled conditions, the photographer can create whatever end result is desired.
The coloring on this photo comes from rust and from incandescent lighting :)
My "Mr. Clean" comment was tongue in cheek. I hope you know that. The photo is excellent. I was not seriously challenging you. But still it is the cleanest locomotive I've ever seen! :o
My "Mr. Clean" comment was tongue in cheek. I hope you know that. The photo is excellent. I was not seriously challenging you. But still it is the cleanest locomotive I've ever seen! :o
It's a museum piece that has been restored to its original condition :)
Originally posted by ashishtibrewal: Can someone please critique my gallery My Gallery
Thanks Ashish
Ashish, I really like the Nepal photos. I live in Western North Carolina. We have mountains here too... Mt. Mitchell is the highest mountain peak in the eastern Unites States, but it is only 6,600 feet above sea level. Our mountains are merely bumps in the earth compared to these :) Good shots!
