Wednesday, January 16, 2008

Palm Wrap


Hongqiao, China

Start of a new series: Wo Zhi Kankan (I'm just looking)

Permalink / posted by and copyright of Doug Stockdale : 4:03 AM

Comments:
The tint works in favour of this one. It's very simple but seems to have a strong effect - it must be the dark bodies with the lighter trees behind. Even with the palms (increasingly seen here) this could be in the UK with that sky. What the entrepeneurial garden centre has in stock!
# posted by Blogger John Ellis : 7:57 AM
 

To me, there is a lot of "noise" in the background and around the palm trees. It gets in my way to getting involved in it.
# posted by Blogger StephaneB : 10:46 AM
 
Compositionally this works well for me, and I have no problem with the background though it gets just a bit "mucky" in the middle area. I like the contrast between the wrapped, cultivated palms and the tall, bare background trees. I can almost "feel" the thickness of that sky.

Agree that the tint is a plus here.
# posted by Blogger Christina : 3:03 PM
 
It looks as though they have been wrapped up against the frost.

The feature for me is the unnaturalness of the palm binding, a quirk.
# posted by Blogger Rex : 7:17 PM
 
It's almost as if they the palms have been wrapped to fit with the more slender trees in the background. Perhaps these are girdled palms?
# posted by Blogger matt~ : 2:46 PM
 
I find that the background interferes a little too much in this shot. Closer, lower and wider would be one way to go. Otherwise colour rather than black and white? The scene is also a little jarring. The bandaged trees look deliberatly placed yet the rest of the garden is not so well thought out or upkept.
# posted by Blogger akikana : 3:29 AM
 
Thanks all for your comments, and I was not sure that I had created enough seperation with the background. I must have 'danced' around these for about a half hour trying to get a good composition. I don't know if I will make it back to Hongqiao (not Hongqaio; so Colin, how do I make corrections to my post??) to rephotography this or not.
# posted by Blogger Doug Stockdale : 6:50 AM
 
Colin, never mind, I just figured it out! You would think that I would had edited one of my posts before this;- )
# posted by Blogger Doug Stockdale : 6:53 AM
 


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