As Photo Friday entries go, this isn’t the best interpretation of this week’s theme – Natural – but I know I’m not likely to have a great deal of time this week so I thought I’d put this up now before I change my mind :-)
As for it’s relevance: this is taken from underneath the slide in our local park, and the distorted reflection is of the “natural” bark that carpets the floor … and a child playing on a roundabout seems like a fairly “natural” thing too ;-)
In terms of colour and visual interest, I like this, but I’m not convinced that the composition works all that well. I’d be interested to hear what you think.
Oh, and I know I said yesterday that I’d put up the second X:04 shot today – I’ll put it up tomorrow instead.
camera capture date aperture shutter speed shooting mode exposure bias metering mode ISO focal length image quality white balance
Canon G5
2.41pm on 1/5/04
f4.0
1/160
aperture priority
+0.0
evaluative
50
15.8mm
RAW
auto
Same here. Confusing at first, but now much better.
A good photo for the natural topic!
comment byJoseph Holmes at 03:50 PM (GMT) on 2 May, 2004
Confusing -- there's a theme developing here! I could tell we've got a reflection because of the distorted portion, but I'd enjoy the photo if I felt I, the viewer, was oriented. It'd be more enjoyable if I could sense how the reflection fit into the background. And since it's clearly not an abstract, it's not satisfying as a simple exercise in design.
On the hand, the textures, the colors, the saturation are all beautiful and wonderul.
Congratulations on your first place at Photoblogs.org! Well deserved!
comment by djn1 at 06:45 PM (GMT) on 2 May, 2004
Joe: I think you've captured what doesn't work about this shot; i.e. that, even when you know what it is, there's no way of working out where you are in relation to the reflected detail. And you're right, it wasn't intended as a purely abstract shot so it doesn't work in those terms either.
Jamb: thanks, but I've just checked and I'm back in second place ;-)
As Photo Friday entries go, this isn’t the best interpretation of this week’s theme – Natural – but I know I’m not likely to have a great deal of time this week so I thought I’d put this up now before I change my mind :-)
As for it’s relevance: this is taken from underneath the slide in our local park, and the distorted reflection is of the “natural” bark that carpets the floor … and a child playing on a roundabout seems like a fairly “natural” thing too ;-)
In terms of colour and visual interest, I like this, but I’m not convinced that the composition works all that well. I’d be interested to hear what you think.
Oh, and I know I said yesterday that I’d put up the second X:04 shot today – I’ll put it up tomorrow instead.
capture date
aperture
shutter speed
shooting mode
exposure bias
metering mode
ISO
focal length
image quality
white balance
2.41pm on 1/5/04
f4.0
1/160
aperture priority
+0.0
evaluative
50
15.8mm
RAW
auto
I found it confusing at first.
Thats a good thing.
Same here. Confusing at first, but now much better.
A good photo for the natural topic!
Confusing -- there's a theme developing here! I could tell we've got a reflection because of the distorted portion, but I'd enjoy the photo if I felt I, the viewer, was oriented. It'd be more enjoyable if I could sense how the reflection fit into the background. And since it's clearly not an abstract, it's not satisfying as a simple exercise in design.
On the hand, the textures, the colors, the saturation are all beautiful and wonderul.
-=-Joe
Congratulations on your first place at Photoblogs.org! Well deserved!
Joe: I think you've captured what doesn't work about this shot; i.e. that, even when you know what it is, there's no way of working out where you are in relation to the reflected detail. And you're right, it wasn't intended as a purely abstract shot so it doesn't work in those terms either.
Jamb: thanks, but I've just checked and I'm back in second place ;-)
I do agree it is confusing at first. The bends and dents keep my eyes on there at first. Good job.
I think this picture is really good. I thought I knew what it was at first, but the part that's warped confused me so I had to read about it.