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The road to nowhere
- Thread starter simonpg
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polypal
Active Member
My compliments Simon!
Shots like this one make my mouth water and bring a trip to Australia much nearer.
What a beautiful country with colors that seem impossible to find elsewhere.
Odille gave the correct analytical opinion.
You bent a few well accepted rules and came up with a great shot.
Paul
Shots like this one make my mouth water and bring a trip to Australia much nearer.
What a beautiful country with colors that seem impossible to find elsewhere.
Odille gave the correct analytical opinion.
You bent a few well accepted rules and came up with a great shot.
Paul
simonpg
Active Member
Many thanks to each of you.
With regards to "rules". I prefer to think of them as guides. As guides they are often logical in that they explain how images often best achieve the taker's objective - get the viewers' eyes to step purposefully through the image and see what you were seeing.
In this image I felt that symmetry was important. What I was "seeing" was that everything in that area for so long while driving was the same. The road was straight and the surface the same for about 100kms; the landscape on both sides was filled with the same plant species; the sky was crystal blue... It remained the same for a couple of hours!!
In my mind it was that everything was "symmetrical".... it all just went on and on and on and on... So in the square format, I was compelled to make the image symmetrical so that viewers eyes just followed that straight road through the symmetrical scenery into the horizon.
It seems it worked.
Thanks again. I do find commentaries about the images I post to be helpful.
With regards to "rules". I prefer to think of them as guides. As guides they are often logical in that they explain how images often best achieve the taker's objective - get the viewers' eyes to step purposefully through the image and see what you were seeing.
In this image I felt that symmetry was important. What I was "seeing" was that everything in that area for so long while driving was the same. The road was straight and the surface the same for about 100kms; the landscape on both sides was filled with the same plant species; the sky was crystal blue... It remained the same for a couple of hours!!
In my mind it was that everything was "symmetrical".... it all just went on and on and on and on... So in the square format, I was compelled to make the image symmetrical so that viewers eyes just followed that straight road through the symmetrical scenery into the horizon.
It seems it worked.
Thanks again. I do find commentaries about the images I post to be helpful.