Saturday, December 01, 2007
West Lake Gondolas
Comments:
There just has to be a joke here about pulling the plug out and the lake emptying :-)
As presented here, I am overly distracted by the blob/boat on the right edge near the horizon. I'm being pulled away from the main part of photo.
Inevitably, this gets compared with the previous boat shot. I like the way the boats are contrasted with the city and the angles of chains and boats. I am not sure that this particular tint serves it well: it's just a bit too big an area of brown in the foreground such that the light at the top becomes too bright in comparison. The boat top right is not a great bother but should have been ordered to steam over to the left a bit!
My initial issue was to create toanl seperation between the canopies of the boats and the water. The distracting boat in the top was coming further into the frame and I have considered cloning it out. But I felt like I should first post the image without the cloning to see if it bothered anyone else.
I had typed in the 'plugs' joke when I saw Colin's comment!
I too am a bit unsettled by the toning in this image, I'm not sure why. It has a slightly muddy feel and perhaps it is because the foreground is so dominant in the composition. There is not much tonal variation in half the image.
The chains and 'plugs' are intersting, perhaps an image on their own.
I'm not sure if the toning is the problem, or if it is a compositional problem. The foreground and the horizon are in competition Getting lower, shooting horizontal and forgoing the horizon might have carried this off better.
The boats are a good pivot but the background needs to be much stronger if it is to balance out those foreground 'plugs'. Also, those buildings counteract the plugs weight and keep the boats hemmed in against the dock wall - they give the boats no where to really drift off to.
Those "plugs" are great. I'm in agreement with the others about the imbalanced foreground and background -- whether the issue is one of the tones or composition (or perhaps a combination!) I'm less sure. I'm curious about the color of things here.
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As presented here, I am overly distracted by the blob/boat on the right edge near the horizon. I'm being pulled away from the main part of photo.
I too am a bit unsettled by the toning in this image, I'm not sure why. It has a slightly muddy feel and perhaps it is because the foreground is so dominant in the composition. There is not much tonal variation in half the image.
The chains and 'plugs' are intersting, perhaps an image on their own.