Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/11/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Graham - I don't often comment on your posts because, well, frankly, I tend to be struck dumb by your landscape photos, they are so enjoyable. This one opens up the possibility of comment though. It's a picture my eye wants to stay with and roam through. As I said in an earlier post, I've been rereading a set of notes about composition and am struck by how often the photos I like the most contain, and use effectively, multiple geometric compositional elements. [Boy, don't I sound pedantic. Maybe it's just a phase. This is rediscovery for me. :-)] Leaving the tonality aside for the moment, which is very nice, I'm struck by the diagonals in decreasing angles of the tree branch, the line of clouds, and the line of trees in the distance. Also, the wet spot at the bottom of the frame forms a triangle pointing into the picture. The fact that the cloud diagonal passes through the far cluster of trees on its way to the lower right corner of the picture adds a further element. The dark line of bushes at the bottom is yet both another line and one that seems needed to "ground" the picture. (I tried cropping it off and the picture goes a bit dead, at least for me, without it.) There's so much for the eye to do. It's no wonder we want to linger. I'd like to ask you the same question I asked earlier. Are you consciously aware of these elements as you shoot or is it all second nature now? Thanks. >Leica M6 : 21mm Elmarit : orange filter : Kodak T400 CN > >http://www.geebeephoto.com/2005/05399.htm > > >Graham >http://geebeephoto.com > -- Regards, Dick Boston MA