Emily, >the image seems to be more >successful when there's more space in the direction the thing is >looking/going and less space behind. You even don't imagine how authentically Your statement sounds in respect our photographic trip, where empty space ahead on my Camedia's x-D memory card was often the most desirable entity. >> 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. Now You are not right. In fact why I ever pulled out the camera there was the reflection on the carside. Everything else was the consequence of composition and lack of true wide angle on the Camedia. If I happened to have some more empty space on the film in my Nikon which had 18 mm lens attached, I could have also included my own reflection on the window and called the picture "AUTOportrait with Pini". Some underlying philosophy: Sometimes Space is more important, sometimes Time. Sometimes I'm lucky enough to combine both concepts into a single holistic pictorial model ;o) Regards, Peeter Vissak pv@hot.ee 2003-11-11
