Turning to the right while being on that small road (the "gallery") I could see the parts of the concrete desert that were without graffiti. The difference of appearance was immediately visible. It was much like coming out to "real world" again after some hours in a museum. So, as a small hint perhaps, and for viewing the graffiti from a different point of view, I thought that adding such an image to the series could make this a bit clearer.
Perhaps those people that make graffiti are driven by exactly the same strange force that seems to live in us, and that also made our ancestors paint the walls of caves though this wasn't anything of "practical use" for anybody. Thinking it one step further, perhaps graffiti will be what next generations will be discovering, and wondering what the meaning of it might be?
I don't know inhowmuch the overexposed part at the right gives some special touch - does it? Or is it disturbing the view? So I'd be glad for any comment.
Hi Luis and thanks a lot for the nice comment. And don't worry about late comments, just take your time. Also, I don't find your English bad at all, Luis, really! I wish I could say something to you in Spanish.
About the image and the overexposure of the highlights, Doyle and Mahassa find that it enhances the isolation of the place as it makes some kind of difference visible between the place under the bridge and anything that is "outside". I see that too as an enhancement for the time being, but I'll have to try some similar shots in order to find out when it works OK and when it doesn't.
My intention was only partially to make it look a bit isolated. For the most part it was perspective that I wanted to get. So that overexposure might be a "present" or it might be not. I don't know exactly.
I am very glad if you include me in the persons you find OK, and I can really understand that you consider many too many here to be not really as much interested into matters of photography but rather into matters of self-representation.
Well, going to your images now! All the best and thanks again,
Yes, most people find it rather positive and now I also have the impression that it does play an important role. I'll have to try some similar shots in order to understand this better, but I assume that, as Doyle said, it makes clear that it is a rather isolated/hidden place.
Dear Nick ...sorry my friend...I wasn't lost and really absent of your last works...of course that we must talk about them and we need much time...I can write in Spanish with the Google translator, but is not natural, and the translate is sincerely bad, is better my bad English.- This one for me is a wonder composition, not good the technical resolution with the highlights blocked.- But I know the intention and that is the question.- There are a big series of painters, and maybe tomorrow I'll talk to you about them.- But remember you are one of the few value persons for me in the site..I've ten or twenty friends...One of them is NICK...be sure.- HUGS...luis:)
Thanks a lot for the nice comment, and your reply, Anne!
If I understood the google translation of your message right, you said about a no-limits approach to photography, along with the necessary imagination of what the image will look like. Which I can only agree with, since this is one of the most important things that gets forgotten too many times. One has to imagine what it will look like, one has to think before shooting!
Thanks a lot for the nice and detailed comment, Doyle!
I can see what you mean about the overexposed part. It does make the main part of the image look like the secluded part it really was, and I am very grateful that you pointed that out, since it madde some things clearer to me. I think that perhaps including such overexposed parts sometimes could enhance the look of such places. I'll try some shots this way.
este tiro es fantastico, me gusta mucho. y en cuanto a lo que tu me preguntas en mi foto _O2 _ eres muy gentil , y en esto no hay limites, solo atrevete a imaginar una imagen y despues buscala, y aparecera. te dejo un beso. anne...
Actually Nick, I don't find the overexposed area on the right to be problematic. It seems to me to enhance the feel of the secluded area in which you are standing and gazing. the mottled green water surface areas give us a clue and a feeling as to the cooler, shady, protected area before vanishing left into a balanced overexposed area on the left which, though smaller, seems to give a sort of continuity to the area on the right. Great idea to have the top curving cement lead us in . . . from the top left corner no less. Very interesting Nick!
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