SharpShooter wrote:
I'll throw this out there. What's obvious is that we can agree to disagree about what are the small important things as we see them in our own minds eyes as photographers.
As I've said a couple of times, it's not about rights or wrongs, but about awareness to open our eyes to see more or a broader scope in out work. :lol:
SS
Thanks for showing us this second photo of the fisherman. I had to go back and forth to see why something about it made me uncomfortable. So, agreeing that we may disagree, here's my take:
- I do like the photo better without the car. We can concentrate on the fisherman and his lines.
- Without the car, I can clearly see that you pp-ed the sky to make it darker to the right of the fisherman. I don't particularly like the transition from dark to light blue. It's not subtle enough.
- What the darkness to the right of the fisherman does is focus our eyes from the fisherman and his lines and more to the beautiful blue sky and the sun. However, the sun and sky are not, I believe, the subjects of this photo.
- What I find interesting about this photo are the silhouettes of the fishing rod with its circles - the one closest to the man and the one most in focus - and the man.
- Thus (please don't kill me!), I am not interested in the fishing rod closest to the viewer and which is out of focus, and the pond, blue sky (altho' the color is pretty and adds to the ambiance of the photo), and the sun.
- Taking the car out makes me see the first photo more clearly - what I liked and didn't like; what the lighting was forcing me to look at.
- Thus, I might experiment a bit more to see if I could make the transition in the sky a more subtle change, delete the fishing rod closest to the viewer (and perhaps some of the others on the shore, but you would have to judge that), and see whether or not these amendments force our focus more on the man and his in-focus line. By all means, I would keep the beautiful colors and the sun.
I am ready for the slaughter!!!! I apologize for taking apart such a beautiful image when I myself could never have made it in the first place.