At 5:48 PM -0700 9/11/08, Trevor Cunningham wrote:
I kind of liked the mile-marker effect of the piles as you follow
the swoop, but now that you point out the redundancy of the
shapes...no, i still like it.
Thanks for the observations Emily!
Emily wrote:
Trevor Cunningham - torajan rice field
The
contrast between its curve and the curve at the base of the hill
makes me uneasy.
Yes, I agree with the "mile-marker" idea, it's the angle I don't care
for. Thinking about what I might have done I think I would have
tried to make the line with the piles of rice lead the eye into the
terraces. Fooling the eye into seeing a rising hill of terraces is
one of the first tasks to me. Generally it requires that one shoot
from a position to the side so that the terraced hill crosses the
plane of view. To do this you would have had to go way over by the
closest pile of rise and shoot across the field.
The next task is to protect the foreground from splaying out with a
monotone - the field in front of the terraces unfortunately would
have done that if you'd gone back and tried to place the line of rice
hills along the left edge of the image, unless you'd moved way into
the terrace base and cut off most of the rice hills.
I deal with that all the time when I try to shoot a roadside scene
that includes the winding roadway in the image. In the foreground
the image becomes all macadam. Sigh. Very boring.
In your image, one way to deal with it would be to locate a field
with 3 or more people working in it, thus breaking up the tan while
keeping the hills of rice to the side and leading the eye to the
terraces. And the people would have contrasted with the terraces,
conveying scale and reinforcing the illusion of rising.
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