I agree with you Juliet, the leading lines are strong, so strong in fact it takes the eye right past the green hill on the right. It’s a fantastic hill and should be part of the photo, instead it takes effort to hold my eye on it.
Maybe that is it, the leaders are so strong, that it almost seem to be pulling the green hill into the lines, almost bending it into the lines, like a barrel distortion. ???
No not really, more like if I was walking in a particularly beautiful area and I see a large rock on the trail. My eye records it as a object to be avoided, but does not add or subtract from the scene. This is too nice a hill for me to be feeling that way.
But then again this coming from one that scores regularly in the 4’s…
The hill/s on the right seem "wrong", as if they are not vertically oriented within the scene. So when the eye reads this scene, it is reading it as "leaning" and it is not comfortable. It appears to be an example of "keystoning", like what you get shooting up at a skyscraper except less extreme. The problem is that there's nothing on the left to show the keystone effect on that side, so the end result is the image appears to be leaning that way. But if you rotate it to "level" the hills, then the left side is obviously way off square. This visual anomaly is producing the disconterting tension in the image.
The hill/s on the right seem "wrong", as if they are not vertically oriented within the scene. So when the eye reads this scene, it is reading it as "leaning" and it is not comfortable. It appears to be an example of "keystoning", like what you get shooting up at a skyscraper except less extreme. The problem is that there's nothing on the left to show the keystone effect on that side, so the end result is the image appears to be leaning that way. But if you rotate it to "level" the hills, then the left side is obviously way off square. This visual anomaly is producing the disconterting tension in the image.
R.
I agree but my guess is that it is not keystoning but a natural occurance of the hills. I have seen this many times while hiking in the NW which has plenty of volcanic activity and upthrust formations.
