Photographer's Note
This guy seemed to be enjoying this beautiful day on Lake Harrison. Just a bench, a book and the lake scenery. He was totally oblivious to me taking his photo.
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Disabled_A
(0) 2010-11-28 8:20
Hi Rob,
if you don't mind hearing my opinion... :) this would be a perfect picture (the colours are amazingly natural!) if the composition were a bit different!
I shot a similar pic in Luzern this summer.. so I kinda know the difficulty of shooting such views (especially taking into account the lighting conditions and the fact that we'd like to see clearly not only the FG but BG as well!
What I am talking about is the man sitting on the bench.
I repeat: it would be simply perfect to move him (with the bench, of course LOL) a bit to the left!
While sitting on the right (with so little space between him and the right border of the pic) he "outweighs" the composition and makes it kinda fall to the right.
I know: the landscape (the mountains) looks really beautiful and perhaps you wanted to include as much of that as possible... so probably that was the reason why you chose this POV.
Anyway, if I had to shoot such a pic I'd perhaps do the following:
- shot a few different images with different composition so that later I'd choose the best of them;
- shot a few images in a row to create a panoramic photo so that later I'd feel free to choose any crop for the best balance of the compo.
well..... that's just my opinion, you may disagree :) Each of us sees the same thing differently, don't we!
best regards,
Elena
BennyV
(34748) 2010-11-29 0:43
I know what Elena is saying, Rob, but I think this one is OK as it is. I like the strong horizontals in this composition and how the row of flowers below is echoed by the branch above. Light and colour is perfect on the man and the bench, very soft (yet natural) elsewhere inthe scene. The view in the background is still visibile, but doesn't take away the attention from what this shot is really about: and that this guy on the bench.
I like it.
Benny
eldancer1
(36343) 2010-11-30 18:54
Soothing and peaceful scene, a good place to contemplate about life. Very nice pov and dof with nice colors. Well done, tfs.
Photo Information
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Copyright: Rob Poole (RPoole5552)
(1822)
- Genre: Places
- Medium: Color
- Date Taken: 2010-08-01
- Categories: Daily Life
- Camera: Nikon D80 DSLR
- Exposure: f/11, 1/100 seconds
- More Photo Info: view
- Photo Version: Original Version
- Date Submitted: 2010-11-28 7:25