Sunday, December 09, 2007
West Burton Falls
Comments:
Looks like you had a productive, if wet, visit to Yorkshire.
Excellent composition, using portrait format to bring the river down the falls to the slab of rock bottom right and yet also containing the escarpment at the top. I'll forgive you the slow shutter speed on the water as there is more to the picture than that. The slight (wet?) haze in the trees is lovely.
Wonderful, almost monochromatic, and I have a very stong desire to see this in B&W (of course!). I really like the long exposures for water, thanks, and I am very intreged by the foreground wet rocks, hopefully you made some images of those by themselves. I am ready to fly over to Yorkshire, especially since my family traces some of our roots back to this area.
Ah, yes, Stockdale = Yorkshire. Obvious now you mention it.
An interesting effect with this picture when seen on the web is that I saw it revealed from the bottom up. So first I saw the 'usual' treatment of a river and then slowly the environment was added. The top ten percent or so of this makes it a vastly more interesting (IMO, of course) picture.
As with the previously posted "Leaves," you've really made excellent use of color here. The colors are vivid without looking ridiculous.
The brown in the water echoes the mist in the trees nicely. Together they soften this without taking away from the harder textures of the wet rocks. Lot's of textures here to work with.
Hmm -- I thought I'd already commented further on this, but it is not here, so I'll try again.
The upper section of the image is wonderful all on its own, particularly the right corner with those trees and soft reds and greens. The foreground balances it out nicely. I'm with Doug in liking the water treatment, clichéd though it sometimes may be.
The water path is a compelling perspective, the light game on the water very interesting.
I have waited a few days before writing this because I find that what prevents me to be completely enthusiastic the the cut part on the right. I wanted to see if that lasted. It does. I'd love the same angle of view, the same time, the same vertical coverage, the same on the left, but extend to the right to make it square, maybe and get the full water path?
Classic composition and I too am a sucker for these long shuttered water-scenes. The browns in the river break up the whiteness well - more so in the background than the foreground. Like Stephane, since seeing this the first time I have been hankering for a little more on the right just to close off that edge for me a little more than the bottom right standing stone does.
For Doug.
Whilst staying in Yorkshire we visited an old Mill which is a museum and art gallery. We purchased a picture there from a photographer called Peter Stockdale.
You can see his work HERE
The link to Peter's site seems intermittant (Bloggers problem?)
So here it is in copy/paste format.
The Mill
http://www.farfield-mill.co.uk/pages.asp?type=M&url=42
Peter's site
http://www.courtyardcards.com/
Oh and the pic we now have stuck on our wall is
http://www.courtyardcards.com/users/UserFiles/Image/courtyardcards2/FIELDPATTERNS.jpg
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Excellent composition, using portrait format to bring the river down the falls to the slab of rock bottom right and yet also containing the escarpment at the top. I'll forgive you the slow shutter speed on the water as there is more to the picture than that. The slight (wet?) haze in the trees is lovely.
An interesting effect with this picture when seen on the web is that I saw it revealed from the bottom up. So first I saw the 'usual' treatment of a river and then slowly the environment was added. The top ten percent or so of this makes it a vastly more interesting (IMO, of course) picture.
The brown in the water echoes the mist in the trees nicely. Together they soften this without taking away from the harder textures of the wet rocks. Lot's of textures here to work with.
The upper section of the image is wonderful all on its own, particularly the right corner with those trees and soft reds and greens. The foreground balances it out nicely. I'm with Doug in liking the water treatment, clichéd though it sometimes may be.
I have waited a few days before writing this because I find that what prevents me to be completely enthusiastic the the cut part on the right. I wanted to see if that lasted. It does. I'd love the same angle of view, the same time, the same vertical coverage, the same on the left, but extend to the right to make it square, maybe and get the full water path?
Whilst staying in Yorkshire we visited an old Mill which is a museum and art gallery. We purchased a picture there from a photographer called Peter Stockdale.
You can see his work HERE
So here it is in copy/paste format.
The Mill
http://www.farfield-mill.co.uk/pages.asp?type=M&url=42
Peter's site
http://www.courtyardcards.com/
Oh and the pic we now have stuck on our wall is
http://www.courtyardcards.com/users/UserFiles/Image/courtyardcards2/FIELDPATTERNS.jpg