Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/12/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Tina, Ric, Mark, George, Ted, Alan, Quan Thanks to all for looking. The idea is to balance the devotee with the temple in the composition - but yes, in general, I prefer shooting human beings in the context of well known places. You can use Google and see a million photographs of the Golden Temple, it is almost as famous and photographed as the Taj Mahal! Quan, you can see my photographs at the Taj Mahal for what I try to accomplish in the context of scenes which have been photographed a million times before, in every conceivable angle and light: http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/taj/ Cheers Jayanand On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 6:30 AM, quantran101 <quantran101 at gmail.com> wrote: > I agree with Alan, I like this shot more than the vertical one. I feel that > the vertical shot is too tight, this one is more balanced. In the vertical > shot the person is merged with the reflection, this one has better > seperation between the two. > > I am guessing that when you press the shutter, you are > looking/thinking/wanting to shoot the devotee, not the shrine. Plus, you > title the pictures "Meditation", so the shot is about the devotee. It's > not > about the cloud/sky or the "golden" shrine; they are more of a distract > than > helping the shot. > The golden color draws my eyes to the shrine. I don't know if that is the > intention here. > > Cheers, > -Q. > > On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 10:03 AM, Jayanand Govindaraj <jayanand at > gmail.com > >wrote: > > > Another variation on the 'Meditation' shot I posted a few days ago. I > tried > > to experiment with another shot I had in the horizontal format - in this > > shot the devotee is seated right with respect to the reflections, but I > > lost > > the interesting sky. So I desaturated all the colours except yellow, to > > accentuate the Golden Temple as well as get a muted morning feel in the > > rest > > of the frame: > > > > > > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/India/_1060021-Edit-EditSelCol.jpg.html > > > > C&C, as always, welcome. > > > > Cheers > > Jayanand > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Leica Users Group. > > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > > > -- > blog: http://1lens.wordpress.com/ > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >