Monday, June 11, 2007
Floral Fire Hydrant
Comments:
The whole teetering on the edge of a slope! I take my hat off to the designer for such an exuberant display, making seemingly unpromising material work well together. The photo is cheerful and celebrates this corner of Sendagi well. The line down the 'tardis' on the right is well drawn and contains the weight of the objects well, projecting them back into the picture.
In case of drought....water plants.
Observation: nothing is chained down.
I find that the vehicle reflection is surprisingly important to the composition. It both gives some more context and stops the dark corner dominating.
The last couple photos you've shown have had progressively fuller tonal range. This one looks just about right to me.
The dark in the upper left corner nicely balances out the white at the bottom of the right hand fence post, but I'm not entirely sure I agree with Colin about the vehicle reflection. It does provide some texture in those shadows, but it also draws the eye away from the central subject.
The tonal range of this does produce quite a visual punch. The subject is another that makes me chuckle.
Are these little vignettes of life everywhere you point your camera or do you have to seek them out?
Thanks for the comments - especially john's alluding to tardis like objects.
I've worked out hiow to get a little more tone out of my scans which is pleasing to me and obviously my audience.
Rex - as a foreigner I am looking at the normal in a slightly different way. whereas floral adorned fire hydrants are not the norm they are not unusual in the Japanese scheme of things. My usual shooting method is to walk around an area for a couple of hours and shoot as I find things of interest. Probably lucky to get through a whole roll these days as I am becomming a little more picky. If an area is abundant in interest then I'll return otherwise I'll move on to another area. I'm slowly working around Tokyo but it will take a lifetime to complete - a modern day Tokyo Atget I guess!
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Observation: nothing is chained down.
I find that the vehicle reflection is surprisingly important to the composition. It both gives some more context and stops the dark corner dominating.
The dark in the upper left corner nicely balances out the white at the bottom of the right hand fence post, but I'm not entirely sure I agree with Colin about the vehicle reflection. It does provide some texture in those shadows, but it also draws the eye away from the central subject.
Are these little vignettes of life everywhere you point your camera or do you have to seek them out?
I've worked out hiow to get a little more tone out of my scans which is pleasing to me and obviously my audience.
Rex - as a foreigner I am looking at the normal in a slightly different way. whereas floral adorned fire hydrants are not the norm they are not unusual in the Japanese scheme of things. My usual shooting method is to walk around an area for a couple of hours and shoot as I find things of interest. Probably lucky to get through a whole roll these days as I am becomming a little more picky. If an area is abundant in interest then I'll return otherwise I'll move on to another area. I'm slowly working around Tokyo but it will take a lifetime to complete - a modern day Tokyo Atget I guess!