Graham Smith Loc: Cambridgeshire UK

Negative,positive or outer space? I don't know :-)
I did shoot this with a wide aperture, f/4.5 to give the shallow depth of field.

Graham

winterrose Loc: Kyneton, Victoria, Australia

Too much to latch onto to be negative space but I did do a double take at the composition! ?

Graham Smith Loc: Cambridgeshire UK

Are you saying that you don't like the composition Rob? Am I too avant garde? 8-) :-)

Graham

winterrose Loc: Kyneton, Victoria, Australia

lighthouse Loc: No Fixed Abode

I don't know either Graham but I do know that I like it.
Nice work.

Graham Smith Loc: Cambridgeshire UK

:lol: I do have a full frontal, perhaps you could work your magic on that Rob?. Incidentally, the statues are modelled on Antony Gormley's own body, I think he might have been very generous
:lol:

Graham

winterrose Loc: Kyneton, Victoria, Australia

If I said it was only a small edit you'd think I was boasting....

I can see the silence. :thumbup: :thumbup:

jonsommer Loc: Usually, somewhere on the U.S. west coast.

There was a similar display about thirteen years ago in Stavanger, Norway, called 100 men that I was fortunate to see. When the alloted time was up, the 100 men were removed, and sent to their next location - which might be where your photos were taken. In person, this is a stunning and thought provoking display that deserves much better than what I see here - talented photographers making not so subtle references to the size of their genitals, combined with implications that their personal set is much superior to what is shown on the statues.. Common, fellas, have we not, at last, left behind ALL vestiges of our high-school locker rooms, and if not, haven't we learned that nobody gives a snap, and it quit being funny a long time ago.

Graham, it's not a negative space shot, new shapes are not being formed as a result of the man and the other elements of your photograph. There is tension between the two figures closest to the viewer, though not as much as in your last post with the fishing boat and the pylon. I really like the minimalist style of your work - it just feels very fresh. So that being said, I would suggest a warming of the sand and figures and a darkening of the sky. My 0.02 cents worth.

winterrose Loc: Kyneton, Victoria, Australia

You must be a rude man. I couldn't work out what you were talking about, why you said those things. I PMed a friend and I was shocked and embarrassed when he told me. I meant that it took me quite a while to work out how to move the headland.

jonsommer Loc: Usually, somewhere on the U.S. west coast.

Not worthy of a reply

winterrose Loc: Kyneton, Victoria, Australia

But you just gave one.

kayautho Loc: Boynton Beach, FL

It took me a few minutes to decide if I liked it. I like it. To use Jonsommer's expression, it is thought provoking, that is, the figure staring out to sea. you have to wonder what's going on in his mind. (I know it's a statue). I think you were just at the right distance to make the figure dominant. I do not think there is an overabundance of negative space. The space is necessary to provide context. I do not think the second statue adds anything. Its too far away and out of focus to provide repeating patterns. The very slight underexposure strengthens the story as I see it.

Graham Smith Loc: Cambridgeshire UK

Jon, please don't read any "smuttiness" into my picture as there was none intended.

There was absolutely no "high-school locker rooms" humour in my picture, I hadn't even noticed the position of the land in that respect. I had to look several times at winterose's edit to understand why he had re-posted it. Regarding Antony Gormely's installation "Another Place", it has appeared at several venues in Europe, Cruxhaven in Germany, Stavanger in Norway and De Panne in Belgium. They will now remain permanently at Crosby, near Liverpool.
I do have front views of the statues, if you would like to view them I would be glad to post them in "Gallery"

Incidentally I deliberately left out the word "negative" in my title because "negative space" is not something I fully understand.

Regards, Graham

Graham Smith Loc: Cambridgeshire UK

The installation is near Liverpool from where many thousands of emigrants left these shores for new lives in various parts of the world. "The work is seen as a poetic response to the individual and universal sentiments associated with emigration - sadness at leaving, but the hope of a new future in another place".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Another_Place

Graham

winterrose Loc: Kyneton, Victoria, Australia

Gosh, Graham, prudish innocence....sigh.....Should I apologize then.....