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Wednesday, March 16, 2005
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2 Comments:
(Everyone's a critic, eh?) ;)
Really like your reflections series; excellent photos. If I were to critique them in general and this one specifically, you give the viewer too much information; cropping the shore at the top raises the image to a less/non specific time and place; for me takes it into an art image, rather than a photo document of water and light. By cropping, you preserve the essence of the image, that very interplay of light/motion/water that probably attracted you initially to take the picture. I seriously doubt that at the moment of deciding to take the picture you were thinking that including the chairs at the top would somehow ADD to the image. I am a low-end photographer, I shoot 640x480 images with a $20 camera, so maybe my perspective is skewed, but try it; crop one and put the images side by side and live with them for a week. I think cropping to intensify the image is usually a good thing and I think we don't crop enuf. Your christmas lights are a great example of what I'm getting at - we don't see the lights, and if we did... well you get the idea. Thanks for some really great images!
Thanks for your positive and helpful comments.
I'm glad you're enjoying the reflections series.
The cropping of this image took place at the time of taking it. I can't remember now if the inclusion of the chairs along the top was intentional or not - but I think it helps. I was trying to get the colours and shapes of the reflections on the water which appealed to me.
It was taken a couple of years ago - before I go my admittedly costly Cannon SLR - with a second hand point and shoot digital camera. I took some favourite shots with that camera.
It's the photographer that makes a good photo not the equipment. One of my favourite photographers - see "Cariboo Images and Thoughts...... " in the sidebar - takes wonderful photographs with a box with a pinhole in it. I wish I could do as good with my expensive equipment!
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