Tuesday, September 25, 2007
Country Road #2 (04070018)
This is a little wider pixels dimensions than we normally post, but given the aspect ratio of this photo, it seemed warranted. It doesn't seem to mess with the formatting of the blog, but if it causes problems for anyone, let me know and I'll repost a downsized version.
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The grain mixes nicely with the texture of the grass and the mist. The house just holds my interest on the right and prevents my eye going off image.
Nothing much happens around them thar parts and if you're looking for Route 66 you'll have to turn back.
This reminds me somewhat of a book I read long ago about existentialism; but for the fogbound water the author used to position the individual's boat substitute the mid-West!
For photographic comment I go along with what Rex has said.
[I can't now remember what the template breaking pixel dimensions are. 650 was chosen as much for verticals as horizontals]
My first thought when seeing this was that there would be a howling motorcycle (or several) along any second. Not an American one, but a racing two stroke on full pipe, or Joey Dunlop on one of those exotic Honda Vs. 'fog on the mountain' say the signs in the pits.
Ahem.
You'll laugh at me for saying this, but I want to see this in colour. I'm not getting much of a sense of place the way it is. Too generic.
Oh, and to complete the oddness of my comment above, I could also direct Doug to the absence of blacks :-)
Colin, it's all Harleys around here, but they usually aren't out as early in the morning as I took this.
It is funny that you wish for this in color, as I almost bought on bunch of slide film when I came home from taking this. The colors of the corn fields were bewitching, but the feeling passed when I thought about scanning slides again.
Did I miss something about Doug and the absence of blacks?
Stephane, no one hitchhikes here; you'd end up in county jail for vagrancy before you could make it to the interstate.
Matt,
My blog (www.singularimages.wordpress.com)was singled out by another photograper on the LF Forum as an example of what is bad about digital color conversion to black and white. Because of my IT issues, I had pulled up a prior post image to help illustrate my counter-point. Then realized later it was a poor image to use, as I had created it with but a tiny bit of black and the image is overwhelming gray. Then another post (and exchange of off-line email with Colin) about the grayscale traps you can blunder into. It was a bit of an inside joke.
Matt, now about you image, I really like the mood it sets. And although I can not make out the distant shapes, it further adds to the mystery of image. The road does an interestng diangle bi-section through the print, starting with the bottom left corner intersection.
This has a nice abstract feeling with the simple shapes and tones. The road takes a slight curve upward instead of running off the right side, and the shapes in the fog cause me to look hard to try to see what they are, which keeps me in the image and gives it depth.
I don't miss the motorcycle -- I like the sense of isolation and empty space.
This needs to be long and wide. But I'm left wanting a little more in the distant mist than the solitary tree. For me as the viewer I do not want to walk down this road. However, if I had someone in the frame I'd be happy to accompany them down into the abyss. Having said that, it works in as much as it has a very unusual positioning of the 'vanishing point'.
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This reminds me somewhat of a book I read long ago about existentialism; but for the fogbound water the author used to position the individual's boat substitute the mid-West!
For photographic comment I go along with what Rex has said.
My first thought when seeing this was that there would be a howling motorcycle (or several) along any second. Not an American one, but a racing two stroke on full pipe, or Joey Dunlop on one of those exotic Honda Vs. 'fog on the mountain' say the signs in the pits.
Ahem.
You'll laugh at me for saying this, but I want to see this in colour. I'm not getting much of a sense of place the way it is. Too generic.
It is funny that you wish for this in color, as I almost bought on bunch of slide film when I came home from taking this. The colors of the corn fields were bewitching, but the feeling passed when I thought about scanning slides again.
Did I miss something about Doug and the absence of blacks?
Stephane, no one hitchhikes here; you'd end up in county jail for vagrancy before you could make it to the interstate.
My blog (www.singularimages.wordpress.com)was singled out by another photograper on the LF Forum as an example of what is bad about digital color conversion to black and white. Because of my IT issues, I had pulled up a prior post image to help illustrate my counter-point. Then realized later it was a poor image to use, as I had created it with but a tiny bit of black and the image is overwhelming gray. Then another post (and exchange of off-line email with Colin) about the grayscale traps you can blunder into. It was a bit of an inside joke.
I don't miss the motorcycle -- I like the sense of isolation and empty space.