"Obvious" is a very personal impression most of the time. Obvious for you might as well be completely ununderstandable to me, that is.
We, the spectators, most of the time can't automatically look, see, feel the way you do. We need all your help in order to understand better your intention.
I hope that you know, that I write all this not in my intention to preace, but rather for being able to have some uninterceded direct view of your own vision at creation time.
Well preacherman;-) - this photo is rather obvious given the title and explanantion, but in other cases I do agree that itīs worth making the best out of it. Take care Annemette
Giving a title, text, and whatsoever is simply not enough, Annemette. A message needs a sender, a receiver, and also a *medium* in which in is transmitted. Distort the medium enough, and the message will never reach the receiver. Thus, a vision about a message *has* to be adequatly implemented through the image too. Especially such an important and subtle message is definitely not matter of not caring about one of its carriers, namely the image itself. Careful composition and exposure are a *must*!
Aye aye, mr. Preacher;-) I do know that, but giving the title, the text and the image that everyone can recognize, I didnīt feel an urge to do more about it. Take care Annemette
I see. A bit of thoughts about messages and photography. The thing is that the spectator usually can't have the view in mind that the photographer has, because the photographer really saw the scene. So the message gets transfered to the spectator through the optical impression of the carrier of the message, the photo itself, while the photographer also carries in mind the real scene and so he/she stands much closer to the message that should be transfered.
Of course the suggestive power of the title/comment, the verbal part of the message, supports that transfer too, but, to take it to the extrem hypothetical but clarifying case, the verbal part of the message alone without the photo would be something very different, as far as I can tell.
Hard to find the boundaries between different carriers of messages when they all appear at the same time.
I know that. In this case I didnīt do much about the image. I cared mostly about the message. Thanks for stopping by and giving advice:-) Best wishes, Annemette
The stereotypes here are very unbalanced in lighting, Annemette. While the dragon is great in its matt black and completely textureless but very contour-rich shape, the poor horse is neither a shape nor a texture due to white on white overexposure over very big parts of it. So it almost disappears in comparison to the dragon. Correcting some EV down could help here, since the dragon is already completely black and almost a shadow, which has the advantage that it couldn't be underexposured any more.