Brighton Beach
Jul 16, 2018 09:33:34 #
Does this image hold your attention? Does it stimulate your emotions? Does it kindle your imagination?
Or does it leave you cold?
Or does it leave you cold?
Jul 16, 2018 09:48:40 #
I take lots of pictures like this when I'm at the beach. I like it. I like the little red thing, too. The last beach pics I took I tried angling the water line a bit, hoping to make the image at least a bit different.
Jul 16, 2018 10:12:03 #
It gives me a sense of the beach, its calm beauty here. I do not sense a personal expression.
Jul 16, 2018 10:48:24 #
Graham Smith wrote:
Does this image hold your attention? Does it stimulate your emotions? Does it kindle your imagination?
Or does it leave you cold?
Or does it leave you cold?
For me personally I doesn't do a whole lot for me. I found my eyes bouncing all over the image looking for me to find something of interest. The only thing was the floating red object in the water. But that was not enough for me.
For a vast number of your images there is always something engaging about them. But this one does not fall into that category.
Jul 16, 2018 11:18:20 #
If you were a newbie, Graham, I wouldn't do this to you, but since you're a well established, outstanding and inspiring photographer, I'm going to compare your shot to one of artbob's recent postings:
https://www.uglyhedgehog.com/t-540334-1.html
His transports me, while yours does leave me a little bit cold. It's just too realistic, I guess
https://www.uglyhedgehog.com/t-540334-1.html
His transports me, while yours does leave me a little bit cold. It's just too realistic, I guess
Jul 16, 2018 11:56:44 #
My initial reaction, was in regards to the sole existence of the red buoy?, it's meaningfulness, and positioning. I cropped away some left and a little bottom to place the buoy at a golden intersection. That pacified the feeling that it might be a loose end. Now I remove it altogether from the full frame, and compare that, to the its original form. There is no question but that its presence has a significant effect on how my eye moves around. Without the red buoy my eye skips around in a fairly random fashion, not compelled to rest anywhere. With it, it draws ones attention right away, and as we disengage from it, the eye seems to go about exploring the image in its entirety in a slow thoughtful manner, always aware of the non threatening red buoy. Is it the red balloon from the film I saw as a child in Germany that reappeared here :) No it doesn't leave me cold. Its been educational to appreciate this kind of subtlety. Quite interesting.
Jul 16, 2018 12:33:37 #
Graham Smith wrote:
Does this image hold your attention? Does it stimulate your emotions? Does it kindle your imagination?
Or does it leave you cold?
Or does it leave you cold?
None of the above. However, I would quite happily print it large and hang it somewhere that needed brightening up. I find the colour combinations and gradations very pleasing. I might skim a bit off of the bottom first, though.
Jul 16, 2018 12:50:32 #
fergmark wrote:
My initial reaction, was in regards to the sole ex... (show quote)
Thanks for appreciating the significance of the red buoy, it does affect the way the eye the eye moves around the scene. It isn't the red balloon from the film, it was more inspired by JWM Turners work "The City of Utrecht, 64, Going to Sea" also known as "Helvoetsluys" where Turner's application, at the last minute, of a red daub (the buoy) led to his painting completely upstaging Constables "Opening of Waterloo Bridge" at a Royal Acadamy exhibition.
Not placing the buoy according to the golden rule was deliberate so that no one could say that it worked because of the position of the buoy
Jul 16, 2018 17:17:24 #
Graham Smith wrote:
Does this image hold your attention? Does it stimulate your emotions? Does it kindle your imagination?
Hi, Graham,
Or does it leave you cold?
Hi, Graham,
Or does it leave you cold?
Yes, yes, yes, and no!
Although this strand is pebble shingle and not the light yellow-tan sand of the New Jersey shore, the view is, otherwise, one that was early and permanently filed for quick recall in my mental file of images that will roll before my consciousness in its ultimate, final moments.
Hence, “yes, yes, yes, and no!”
Thank you for posting this one!
Best to you and Rosemary,
Dave
Jul 17, 2018 06:37:27 #
Never ever seen Brighton Beach like that so that's something to intrigue me for starters - where have all the hoards gone?
But yes, it opens up several lines of thought, Is it a horizontal tricolour flag, Brighton, Scotland, (come to think of it I've seen a pebbly beach in Scotland), a desert Island, what's just over the horizon? And more.
I'd even go so far to say as you could have dispensed with the blob of red.
But yes, it opens up several lines of thought, Is it a horizontal tricolour flag, Brighton, Scotland, (come to think of it I've seen a pebbly beach in Scotland), a desert Island, what's just over the horizon? And more.
I'd even go so far to say as you could have dispensed with the blob of red.
Jul 17, 2018 10:07:39 #
Please forgive me in advance but:
This is one of those images that my initial reaction was: What's the point. The image has four objects, the beach, the water, the sky (with clouds), and that red blob. None of the four is the theme as best as I can tell.
The job of the photographer (in my opinion) is to focus the photograph and eliminate those objects that distract from that focus or theme, since unlike viewing an environment in real life the human brain tends to view visual art as a whole object.
May I suggest a crop to eliminate most all of the beach focusing the attention of the viewer on the junction of the water and sky and clone out that red blob.
This is one of those images that my initial reaction was: What's the point. The image has four objects, the beach, the water, the sky (with clouds), and that red blob. None of the four is the theme as best as I can tell.
The job of the photographer (in my opinion) is to focus the photograph and eliminate those objects that distract from that focus or theme, since unlike viewing an environment in real life the human brain tends to view visual art as a whole object.
May I suggest a crop to eliminate most all of the beach focusing the attention of the viewer on the junction of the water and sky and clone out that red blob.
Jul 17, 2018 10:14:30 #
I’ve got loads of those Graham! Living near the sea this doesn’t hold any surprises for me but I like the subject and the colours. Left to my own devices I’d have made more of the buoy, right or wrong, it’s a natural attraction.
Jul 17, 2018 13:31:02 #
Just an unofficial observation, generally people on this side of the pond not too crazy for this photo. The opposite for those on the other side of the pond. Maybe it comes down to our frames of reference. Just saying, not judging.
Jul 17, 2018 14:20:44 #
NJFrank wrote:
Just an unofficial observation, generally people on this side of the pond not too crazy for this photo. The opposite for those on the other side of the pond. Maybe it comes down to our frames of reference. Just saying, not judging.
Interesting observation.
Jul 17, 2018 14:52:24 #
NJFrank wrote:
Just an unofficial observation, generally people on this side of the pond not too crazy for this photo. The opposite for those on the other side of the pond. Maybe it comes down to our frames of reference. Just saying, not judging.
Vive la différence
I wasn't expecting anyone to be crazy about or even like the picture Frank, it was about an anchor point for the eye and from that point the eye can rove around. fergmark got the idea
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