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I'm finding myself with this week's gallery repeatedly reminded of a rubric that I picked up from Galen Rowell years go. When photographing things that are facing in some direction, whether people or trains or sailboats or animals, the image seems to be more successful when there's more space in the direction the thing is looking/going and less space behind.
Achal Pashine -
here's a case in point. Yes, the well lit and bright eyed little boy is looking at the camera, but his body is facing to the left. I find too much shoulder and not enough breathing room on the left side of the photograph.
Peeter Vissak - The End
Now here's a great example - plenty of space where we need it! An absolutely fine panoramic reflection in the side of the car of the tail end of the missed sunset. Yeah, yeah. I know. That wasn't the intention, Peeter. But advertently, or inadvertently, you got that sunset, and at the same time you got that sense of frustration (dark tonal spectrum) that you felt getting there too late.
Christopher Strevens - Skin and Blister
Yup. Strange shooting someone's chin, and the person is looking up at insufficient space. I suppose if one must shoot chins, even they need space in the line of view.
Trevor Cunningham - Old Falucca Sail
This could be much more decipherable if it weren't quite so dark. Brightening it up would bring out that nice hot edge on the ripped sail, too.
Laurenz Bobke - Small boat on Daling River (China)
Well, picky, picky. It's really three boats.... And to me it's a little strange to have the line of sight basically through the watery space between the boats and then draw attention away from that in the title.
Mike Spillmann - cambodian lake
On my monitor this sky is ungodly purple. Must be something wrong here. And the lake seems to be an afterthought to the sky, and the horizon is really hard to find. I think it's the color balance. Would have been nice if the sun had gotten out from the clouds so that it bounced light off the far opposite side of the lake and brought out the horizon.
Jeff Spirer - Alcatraz
Desperate.
B&W was perfect. The balance is spot on. So desperately awful what people do to people.
Dan Mitchell - Winter comes
Blackberries do turn great colors, even though their fruit is soooo seedy, and their stalks are so prickly. Aside from that the colors are nice, the composition seems to me to be random and need "working".
Jimmy Kostiuck -
Even though the brights are totally blown out, I really like this. So having the brights so blown out must have been deliberate? I like the placement of the magazine browser, too. Putting him just about anywhere along the magazines would have been great, and attending to Galen's rubric would have placed him on the far left side, instead of the right, but that sense of walking on out of the frame is very intriguing.
Leslie Spurlock - Monk at Festival
another situation where I wish there were more space on the left, in the direction that the person's body is facing.
Shawna Hanel - Petroleum Byproduct
Beautiful and hilarious! What a challenge, to capture those colorful refractions in the plastic. Is that wrapping paper, or did you add colored lighting to secure color effect. Did you try crumpling the paper and focussing on some of the edges for texture? What a gas!
Thanks to all, and especially Andy, who is so good natured about all our antics.
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Emily L. Ferguson
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New England landscapes, wooden boats and races, press photography http://www.vsu.cape.com/~elf
