Tuesday, December 19, 2006
not busy but too much colour?
Wishing the 'uncontrollables' a Happy Christmas!
Permalink / posted by and copyright of John Ellis : 11:33 AM
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I certainly wouldn't say there was too much colour John. From the hue of the colour lower right this image says to me that it was taken towards dusk (or perhaps sunrise) which is a useful and pleasant visual clue that this is indeed sky, so that's definitely a contrail and that's probably a telephone wire.
Not sure it would work as well in B&W.
Dusk Johnjo. The reference to colour in the title was a slight dig at Colin! Bad juju to be chucking out black exhaust indeed. All the excitement of our local road!
In this digital age the black line reminds me too much of a hair on the scan or bad scratch on your CCD. I think it needs something more just to define what I'm looking at. The contrail is well established in my memory so no nudging required with that one. The bisection of the two needs to be worked more in to the changing hues of the sky...if that makes any sense.
Hmph, not sure why I need to be dug at....
An interesting game with this is to deduct or add elements - what would it look like without the white line, how would it look with a cloned in 747 etc.
Which is way of saying that I find it an interesting intellectual image, but not an interesting visual one. Perhaps, John, you think the same about some of mine. In fact, I think you said as much on one recent post.......
Found it: "Not an immediate contender for the wall so that leaves it as more of a cerebral photo."
Colin - you are almost certainly right: "not an immediate contender for the wall so that leaves it as more of a cerebral photo." I took it as a bit of a doodle and, as far as I can remember, I would have had to scramble over quite a high hedge to got precisely the colour division that Akikana points out. But, largely, one doesn't have to go for that precise alignment because there is more tension this way. Or, at least, that's how my hindsight rationale works! What I do remember thinking was that the black and white were important. Timing hinged on the rate of fading of the contrail (plane is half a centimetre to the right).
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Not sure it would work as well in B&W.
An interesting game with this is to deduct or add elements - what would it look like without the white line, how would it look with a cloned in 747 etc.
Which is way of saying that I find it an interesting intellectual image, but not an interesting visual one. Perhaps, John, you think the same about some of mine. In fact, I think you said as much on one recent post.......
Found it: "Not an immediate contender for the wall so that leaves it as more of a cerebral photo."