From: caroleigh@c...
Date: Tue Dec 7, 2004 6:30 am
Subject: Critique: Rich Baker (Twilight: 2 photos)
Colorado Twilight - You know what I like here? I like the feeling of tension
you created (purposely, I'm sure) of the clouds seemingly headed off to
the right and the rock formations seemingly headed off to the left. There's
a "whoosh" from left to right, and then another "whoosh"
from right to left. Just for grins, however, what if both the clouds and
the rocks were headed the same direction? I think that, too, would have
been very effective. I think our brain looks for patterns and appreciates
them (rocks/clouds going the same way) but I also think our brain likes
the little jolt it gets from "opposing" elements. You win either
way. I like, too, how you emphasized the drama of the sky by putting the
horizon line down low. A lot of people might have plunked the horizon
line dead center (boo, hiss, static composition), which would have resulted
in a lot of black, dark stuff in the photo and the clouds would have been
minimized. But you (yay!) made the appropriate choice, I think.
B&B Porch View - Major horizontality going on here. I really like
the layers of clouds, the layers of the islands/hills, the water, and
the horizontal line of the ferry. The monochromatic feel is effective,
too, don't you think? How could the photo be improved? Nothing you can
do, really, about the placement of the ferry, but I think a bit of water
between the top of the ferry and the black land mass would have made the
ferry stand out more, would have separated it from the land rather than
blending in with it, as it's doing now. I was going to say that perhaps
less water in the foreground would be better, but I sort of like the symmetry
the band of water has with the band of clouds in the very top of the photo
. . . So I dunno about that. Good photo, Rich.
Carol Leigh
