Saturday, August 05, 2006
Ladders
Comments:
The format suits the subject matter well with one exception, for me at least. And that is that a little bit more of the bottom of the wall should be shown to accentuate the drop the other side. But it is neatly surreal and begs a few obvious questions!
In order not to look down on the wall I dropped down into the salt marsh so that the camera was 'level' with the base of the wall. Any lower and you get pictures of the dog poo.
The wide format works well, and you are on to something with the idea of the photograph, but something is missing here. I suspect that a more interesting sky would help. Perhaps the composition is a little too balanced?
It needs much more blank sky above the ends of the ladders. Not really worried about what's beneath the wall...more interested in where the rungs are taking me.
Ah! The art; the romance; the d.p.
I'm with akikana. Those ladders need somewhere to go. I also find the pull of the plants along the bottom of the picture confusing (being the strongest colour visible).
I think I need to go back to this when the sky is more interesting, or I need to paste a better sky in.
There is certainly more sky in the original, it is just even more boring than the bit I left behind!
Rex: this is a case where I feel that quantity rather than quality is the issue. I wouldn't want the sky too 'interesting' as it might distract.
Does anyone else see humour in this image? It's like the beginning of a sketch; the ladders are put up, they wobble then comes the punchline. I like it. The sky, as mentioned, is not particularly interesting which is no bad thing for this one. The wall on the other hand is interesting.
John -Jo, I'm not sure whether the first sentence of yours is rhetorical or not ("...Does anyone else see humour in this image?...). I'll assume that you're not crying out into the wilderness and answer. I certainly thought that humour was a prime driver, although there was an element of the surreal, perhaps more 'theatre of the absurd', and for that reason wasn't sure that the story wasn't being short-changed by the composition. Given that other people's observations are different, I'm not sure how the punch line is best told!
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I'm with akikana. Those ladders need somewhere to go. I also find the pull of the plants along the bottom of the picture confusing (being the strongest colour visible).
There is certainly more sky in the original, it is just even more boring than the bit I left behind!