Friday, October 19, 2007
Red 'n Green
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Wow, does the color every pop at you! Having grown up with the sugar maple trees, I have seen this contrast often in the Fall. This becomes a image of color, then it becomes an image of texture, the difference in the shape of the red leaves and the green everygreen. But beyond that, there is little to keep my on-going attention.
"It was really a retaliation for all the B&W!!!"
Retaliation indeed. Fall is about the only time of year that I'm tempted by color. I almost included some rolls of slide film in my last B&H order, but I chickened out at the last moment.
This is beautiful, but I think all the texture might be overwhelming the JPG compression.
To continue the discussion started by Colin, would this be form or content?
As Google would say. do you mean 'red and green'?! Despite the Jpeg compression, there is a great feeling of softness about the conifer (as one would experience it) and a lot of detail evident in the Acer leaves.
I see this as predominantly content brought to us by way of some fine form. Trees should be honoured more than they are and this does a very good job. I don't think that I could ever get bored with this, it represents what I find best about parks in the UK: nature is best but there is something creative about a good park.
but I think all the texture might be overwhelming the JPG compression
How right you are.
This is above the 'notional' limit on this site and needed a level of compression I've never used before.
Despite missing the finer details and subtleties of color in the red tree that are no doubt in the original, quite a "wow" of a nature image. Fine form, indeed.
I'm clearly a monochrome curmudgeon because I see little here other than colour. I have no sense of scale, and the shapes, being natural, don't line up in a pleasing enough way (as always, with the qualifier, for me). Sorry.
I once heard the phrase "Colour is a distraction, unless colour is the subject". I think this picture only exists for its colours. Wether the previous sentenc eis compliment or not, I don't know. I certainly appreciate the colours. I mean, this is gorgeous! But at the same time I agree with Colin. Maybe the light is a bit flat to wow us completely?
Colour is the subject here and it needs to be cropped much tighter to eliminate the gaps on the right and the yellows to the left. I'd hazard some of the flatness is more through moving foliage than anything else. As it stands this is like many photographs that I see in the Japanese photo mags this time of year. To break it away from the crowd you really need to drill in to the tips of the red and how they encroach in to the sea of green.
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Retaliation indeed. Fall is about the only time of year that I'm tempted by color. I almost included some rolls of slide film in my last B&H order, but I chickened out at the last moment.
This is beautiful, but I think all the texture might be overwhelming the JPG compression.
To continue the discussion started by Colin, would this be form or content?
I see this as predominantly content brought to us by way of some fine form. Trees should be honoured more than they are and this does a very good job. I don't think that I could ever get bored with this, it represents what I find best about parks in the UK: nature is best but there is something creative about a good park.
How right you are.
This is above the 'notional' limit on this site and needed a level of compression I've never used before.