Thursday, August 03, 2006
Closed door
Comments:
This has a bit of a Wow about it.
It is an unusual subject with a lot of information and a strong composition. The high contrast curved notice board leads my eye down to the door where you want me to go.
I would say more ...whoosh. One can't get away from the idea of an underground station but obviously this is a good way of presenting a lot of information without making those with poor sight having to decide whether they need glasses for the top part or not. The plane left (1955) really feels as though it is struggling to escape the 2001 Space Odyssey hurtle towards rebirth at the far end. It makes me think of particle accelarators (and, yes, I know that they're supposed to be circular).
My first thought was - underground station from one of the far east crew (everything is too clean for London...). But then I actually looked. Aircraft. Bound to be JohnJo :-)
I read this backwards in comparison to Rex. My eye comes forward in the composition and rests on the plane on the far left. I didn't notice the door until I read the title. That plane (what is it by the way?) is creating one hell of a slipstream.
I'm not quite comfortable with the overall composition. I keep wanting it to be more dramatic than it actually is (I've no idea, obviously, what is/was possible). It is a neat idea though.
After the comment about the aircraft I looked at it and thought it looked like the Gloster Meteor. However that aircraft came into service in 1944 and I could not understand why it was in the 1955 year on the wall. A bit more research showed that the Meteor went out of service in 1955!
This could be an excellent example of 2+2=5 as I really don't know that it is a Meteor!
I think it's a Hunting Jet Provost variant of some kind from the RAF's first experimental jet training programme.
" I'm not quite comfortable with the overall composition. I keep wanting it to be more dramatic than it actually is"
Having tried, and failed, to take similar photos on a number of occasions, I think the key to compositions like this is the get that door all the way to the edge of the frame and into a corner if possible. This creates a stronger diagonal line.
It looks like a cool museum.
It's a little confusing in that far end for me to focus on the door. There are two very bright areas competing for my attention. I think it warrants a strong, fixed vanishing point though as the 1955 plane is pulling the picture out and the fixed point would keep me looking over the wall chart some more. Well seen and executed.
Thanks for the comments all. Just to add some closure, the title "Closed door" is one of those arty metaphores for my vision of the image. It refers to the time line on the display ending at some time called the present (or there abouts) with the future obscured behind the door.
There it is, for what it's worth.
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It is an unusual subject with a lot of information and a strong composition. The high contrast curved notice board leads my eye down to the door where you want me to go.
I read this backwards in comparison to Rex. My eye comes forward in the composition and rests on the plane on the far left. I didn't notice the door until I read the title. That plane (what is it by the way?) is creating one hell of a slipstream.
I'm not quite comfortable with the overall composition. I keep wanting it to be more dramatic than it actually is (I've no idea, obviously, what is/was possible). It is a neat idea though.
This could be an excellent example of 2+2=5 as I really don't know that it is a Meteor!
Having tried, and failed, to take similar photos on a number of occasions, I think the key to compositions like this is the get that door all the way to the edge of the frame and into a corner if possible. This creates a stronger diagonal line.
It looks like a cool museum.
There it is, for what it's worth.