Art, Snapshot or filler for the waste basket?
Jul 13, 2015 05:40:05 #
I took this image several years ago, and thanks to my policy of non-purge, I still have it.
I'm not an artist so I would value your opinions, good, bad or downright ugly.
I'm not an artist so I would value your opinions, good, bad or downright ugly.
Jul 13, 2015 06:53:38 #
Hya Searcher Nice to see you post here. That cannot be summer in the UK! As a Brit I can assure you summer days are cold windy and wet. Winter days are similar but colder and wetter.Spring and fall a mix of both.
The picture in my humble and uneducated opinion would benefit from a crop from the bottom putting the horizon just below the halfway mark and a crop from the right placing the figure on the thirds line. Ideally the figure would also cut through through horizon but I think its far from a bad photo and certainly not ugly. Its a little soft on focus but not a deal breaker.
And I am no artist either so your among friends.
The picture in my humble and uneducated opinion would benefit from a crop from the bottom putting the horizon just below the halfway mark and a crop from the right placing the figure on the thirds line. Ideally the figure would also cut through through horizon but I think its far from a bad photo and certainly not ugly. Its a little soft on focus but not a deal breaker.
And I am no artist either so your among friends.
Jul 13, 2015 07:07:45 #
Billyspad wrote:
Hya Searcher Nice to see you post here. That canno... (show quote)
Thanks Billy, I can't do much about the focus - a 2 mp camera from the very early days of digital, but I can try out your cropping suggestions.
I think your (alleged) lack of artistry is more than made up for by your imagination which I must confess to being a little envious of.
I think you have found a good home in this section, but don't forget us in PP.
Jul 13, 2015 07:16:48 #
Searcher wrote:
Thanks Billy, I can't do much about the focus - a 2 mp camera from the very early days of digital, but I can try out your cropping suggestions.
I think your (alleged) lack of artistry is more than made up for by your imagination which I must confess to being a little envious of.
I think you have found a good home in this section, but don't forget us in PP.
I think your (alleged) lack of artistry is more than made up for by your imagination which I must confess to being a little envious of.
I think you have found a good home in this section, but don't forget us in PP.
I will not say anymore other than I am grateful to your section and can assure you I will continue to visit and post in the PP section however comfortable I am here.
Jul 13, 2015 08:22:52 #
I don't suppose that the rather chilly fellow is still there collecting bippies so I guess you can't go back for a re-shoot but having sat and watched similar hardy souls out on the bleak and windy flats from the warmth of my car prompted me that this sort of shot could benefit from including even more bleak beach to emphasize the loneliness of his enterprise.
Cheers, Rob.
Cheers, Rob.
Jul 13, 2015 09:05:44 #
Searcher wrote:
I'm not an artist ..
I'm not an artist ..
Oh yes you are!. You saw one of those universal themes, an art archetype, and you responded. Any of us would have done the same. It isn't just photography. http://www.wga.hu/frames-e.html?/html/f/friedric/1/105fried.html
Agree with Winter Rose that more space around him might have been nice, because the theme is the isolation of the rather helpless human figure set before/against the vast power of nature. It is only my very humble opinion but I think you can imply more space by cropping a little differently (a bit Gursky-ish), as attached. Since you have that nice note on your signature about allowing edits, I took the liberty of going a little artistic on the processing at the same time :-) BTW, those rays are not added, they were already there, hiding.
Jul 13, 2015 09:40:32 #
Searcher wrote:
I took this image several years ago, and thanks to my policy of non-purge, I still have it.
I'm not an artist so I would value your opinions, good, bad or downright ugly.
I'm not an artist so I would value your opinions, good, bad or downright ugly.
This reminds me of Rhein II http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhein_II
And, if I may ask, why do you say you are not an artist? Do you imagine everyone would be able take an image like this? Just curious. S-
Jul 13, 2015 10:26:12 #
Frank2013
Loc: San Antonio, TX. & Milwaukee, WI.
Searcher wrote:
I took this image several years ago, and thanks to my policy of non-purge, I still have it.
I'm not an artist so I would value your opinions, good, bad or downright ugly.
I'm not an artist so I would value your opinions, good, bad or downright ugly.
Most has already been said. My crop would be from the top down leaving just a touch of sky left at the top.
Jul 13, 2015 11:24:06 #
Searcher wrote:
I took this image several years ago, and thanks to my policy of non-purge, I still have it.
I'm not an artist so I would value your opinions, good, bad or downright ugly.
I'm not an artist so I would value your opinions, good, bad or downright ugly.
I like this picture, Searcher. Of course, composition is in the eye of the beholder, but in my opinion, if I were to crop your image, I would continue the layers that exist by making the sky somewhat the same dimension as those.
Jul 13, 2015 12:39:14 #
Searcher wrote:
I took this image several years ago, and thanks to my policy of non-purge, I still have it.
I'm not an artist so I would value your opinions, good, bad or downright ugly.
I'm not an artist so I would value your opinions, good, bad or downright ugly.
Downloaded image is perfect! Well done, great story!
Jul 13, 2015 23:58:36 #
Quite nice, Searcher, as is. All the individual layers of sand, water, surf, and sky, with the ocean intersecting the sky right along the top third make for a visually stress relieving piece. The colors (some of which I can't quantify) are perfect. Even the light brown of the smog blends in nicely. That said, I can't say that the beachcomber is my favorite part of the photo, but it does need a human of some sort.
Jul 14, 2015 02:17:41 #
Thank you everybody for looking and your advice which centres on better cropping. None of you have suggested the image will bring in the 3-4 million dollars that another similar photograph has taken at auction (Gursky's Rhine River), so I guess I will have to keep practising.
glblanchard's crop gives the image a much better perspective but all the suggestions are good. I particularly like Winterrose's idea of even more beach, I would then retitle to "The Loneliness of the Long Distance Beachcomber".
Composition is my Achilles Heel. I occasionally have sparks of ingenuity ruined by its execution. More often than not even the sparks are dull and uninspired. Artistic I am not, but I shall keep on trying.
glblanchard's crop gives the image a much better perspective but all the suggestions are good. I particularly like Winterrose's idea of even more beach, I would then retitle to "The Loneliness of the Long Distance Beachcomber".
Composition is my Achilles Heel. I occasionally have sparks of ingenuity ruined by its execution. More often than not even the sparks are dull and uninspired. Artistic I am not, but I shall keep on trying.
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