Urban Park #2
Nikon D100, 85mm f1.8DAnother view from the Alta Plaza.
--Warren
posted by Warren T. at 7:17 AM
7 comments
Thursday, July 16, 2009
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7 Comments:
Warren, nice composition of a park I have spent many hours working in. I wonder if the dog and owner would be better cropped on the right side. Since they are in shadow they get added to the tree and lost. Just a thought
Dan
Thanks for the comment, Dan. I'm hoping that someone else will offer an opinion before I respond :).
--Warren
Hi Warren, I didn't realize there was a dog near the tree until looking really closely. I think the sky is kind of light, needs some kind of grad nd filter or something.
The perspective of the scene makes it a bit confusing, hard to tell you are on a hill, and what the buildings are really like, if you didn't know the park.
A lot of elements in focus, make the photo a busy one to me.
Yes, I can certainly understand that this perspective is not everyone's cup of tea :).
Thanks for your interesting comments, Ted, much appreciated. I want to understand what you mean by the sky being "light"? A grad ND wouldn't work here because grad ND filters need a solid horizon to be effective.
Dan, a couple of my reasons for not cropping out the person and dog next to the tree. 1) it repeats the pattern of the people on the bench in front of the small tree 2) I wanted to crop for the 4x6 format/aspect ratio, and IMO this is the optimum crop for this format 3) the dog and person adds something interesting for the viewers to discover as they are viewing the picture. Well, they weren't really lost, since you did notice them :)
I feel that the bulk of the big tree is visually balanced by the elements in the lower left (building + small tree + people).
Actually, if you just look at the visual elements of the image, there seem to be three: the big tree (with dog and person), the small tree and large building behind them, and the grassy area at the bottom. IMO, they seem to be situated okay in the image (they balance each other).
So imagine yourself walking at the park. If you walked to the exact spot, looked in the same direction, you would see all these things exactly as depicted in this image. Would you feel confused, or amused, at the apparent relationship between the grass, the trees, and the building in the distance?
In the end, this image served its purpose, to promote discussion and thought :).
Dan, if you'd like, please feel free to download the image, crop out the dog and person, and post the edited image to show us how you would crop it.
--Warren
Hi Warren, to me, and it might be my monitor or the low res image, it just seems that the sky is not blue, but kind of blown highlights around the tree.
Overall the detail around the tree, and the people on the bench seem underexposed, and the sky seems blown. I'm sure it's probably not, but thats what the web version looks like to me.
Content wise, looking again, I can't help but wonder if the folks on the bench have a better view than we do looking at the photo of them ;)
Good eye. I overdid the contrast a bit, and I was too lazy to correct it on this web version. :) A differently calibrated monitor would surely put it over the top.
--WT
I wanted the tree areas to be left underexposed, but the sky was on the verge (my laptop monitor shows less contrast than normal).
--WT
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