Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/09/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Johnny Deadman wrote: > > on 9/7/01 5:44 PM, Steve Rowell at steverowell@yahoo.com wrote: > > > Looks like you've hit a groove with the pans. They > > really seem to offer a new set of compositional > > challenges though. In this one, I find the tree toward > > the middle a little distracting. It seems to split the > > image. The thing I like most about this project is > > when you nail it the resulting image has a real sense > > of place. > > The centre of the pan is of course arbitrary because the ends meet up... but > choosing where to put it is very hard. In this case the building on the > right facing 'in' begs to be the right hand side, which puts that big > carousel in the centre. I tried a few other orientations but they all looked > a bit arbitrary. I did a few other pans here which may be more satisfying. > -- > John Brownlow > > http://www.pinkheadedbug.com It would be nice if you had a big bush at the right which was split in half and then continued at the left. Then in your own mind the viewer would know more than it was a full 360 circle. I think this is important. Making the circle make sense. What you see on the edges matches up in your minds eye. Mark Rabiner Portland, Oregon USA http://www.rabiner.cncoffice.com/