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John Charlton
{K:5595} 6/1/2003
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Thanks everyone for your comments and suggestions. I have given this another try. See http://www.usefilm.com/showphoto.php?id=148969
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Sylvia Jones
{K:652} 6/1/2003
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Hi John,
Haven,t caught your work on here for ages - must have been looking at the wrong time! This one breaks all the rules but somehow it appeals to me - there is a great sense of space and depth and the colour is so restful - maybe sometimes it pays to break the rules!
Regards
Sylvia
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David Goldfarb
{K:7611} 6/1/2003
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I like Matej's observation. I think if the horizon were centered precisely, that would have a stronger effect.
The Coolpix 995 will give you auto white balance, but a Haze 1 filter (with WB locked on daylight) or thereabouts wouldn't hurt to cut through some of the haze visible near the horizon. For certain things, a real filter seems to work better than digital correction.
This is the kind of photograph that many people will find boring, but Hiroshi Sugimoto has made a career out of this work--black and white seascapes with the horizon right down the middle, usually photographed from an elevated perspective on large format. Looked at side-by-side they acquire meaning as texture studies. There really can be quite a lot there.
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Matej Maceas
{K:24381} 5/17/2003
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As far as I can tell, the horizon is not in the centre, it's just very close to being there. I was thinking that if you cropped this to get the horizon precisely in the centre (making clear that that was the intention), maybe that small crop would cause a noticable shift in the final effect. With the image being a square, cutting it exactly in half could work well. Perhaps not as a classic landscape, but as a landscape/abstract combination.
If you also moved a bit to the left, the rock in the foreground would provide the off-centre counterbalance. Or even better, try looking for a rock that would not be parallel to the horizon, but rather pointing away from the centre of the image.
Finally, experimenting with different times of day and different cloud presence/formations would give you various water-sky contrasts and 'weights' to choose from. Keep breaking the rules, I think this could get very interesting.
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Aiman Nassar
{K:11961} 5/1/2003
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simple and very beautiful John... think it would look better in Black and WHite... with nice tone range
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John Charlton
{K:5595} 4/28/2003
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Hey, great critiques guys. Thanks.
Yes, I was trying to break some rules of balance just to see what would happen. I agree that the result above supports the rules more than it breaks free of them. Your points are well taken and will encourage me to try again. Thanks again for such great feedback!
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Christian Barrette
{K:21125} 4/27/2003
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I find the open colours quite pleasing, reminescent of the Mediterranean - Who thought that could be said of Lake Ontario !!?? This picture also sends me back to a F. Patterson's picture where the lake is greyish and one's eye is attracted by a single breaking wave. Your image has something like that too, a sort of enigma in the shape of that rock right under the water. In Patterson's photography, there is a hidden surprise : a tanker on the horizon, hard to detect yet playing the important role of a counterpoint ; something your image lacks. I guess you used the square challenge to compose in balance all the way.
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Lee Werling
{K:452} 4/27/2003
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Hi, John. With respect to your submission for the project, The Square Image, my only observations would be that the central horizon cuts the square in half. Typically this is not always the best way to divide your photographic space. Perhaps you had a reason for this. If so, I would appreciate your thoughts as to what you were going for. The centralized subject, while not as appealing as something more readily identifiable, seems to work better of placed less central. My personal preference would be a bit more to the right. Thanks for sharing this image with us.
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Lucas Macedo
{K:12843} 4/27/2003
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Good colors, could use a bit more contrast and maybe show more sky/less water ( or vice-versa ) . ...... Lucas
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