Anyway, while I was there I took a few shots from various angles. This one kind of stuck out as being worthy of posting. I liked it for the simple blue-yellow colour complement. I purposefully cut of the top of the water source since it was just white and green and would add nothing to the image from a colour standpoint. I also wanted to keep it a little more abstract rather than "finish" the photo.
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| Gembikei Gorge Canon PowerShot G10 at 50mm EFL 0.4s, f/4 & IOS 80 - tripod mounted |
What do you think? Do you want to see where the water is coming from or do you enjoy the mystery?
Hi Steve,
ReplyDeleteI like the colour combination, and I'm not worried by not seeing the source of the water or the sky.
I would like to see some more of those rock walls myself. Not sure how to describe it, but maybe seeing them from a slightly lower angle, but not too much lower otherwise you would miss out on the water flowing.
Its a good photo, and it would be interesting to experiment in that area a bit. I'm guessing you might have limits on where you would walk around though which might be a problem.
Anyway, again I'm jealous. It's a really nice photo.
Cheers
Craig.
Hi Guys,
ReplyDeleteInteresting. I'm almost the complete opposite of Craig on this one. I'd like to see the canyon from a little higher up, and looking down into it from that angle. My reasoning is that the white water at the top of the picture leads my eye out of the frame. From a little higher, I could see more of the yellow canyon wall and blue waters without being drawn right out of the picture (assuming you don't lose the water reflection by being higher).
Another approach I tried was to crop the top ~64 pixels off this picture, and I like it better that way. (need to crop some off the side too in order to keep proportions. I'd chop from the right side).
As Craig says, the colours are nice, and it doesn't need a sky or horizon.
Cheers,
Geoff.
Hi All,
ReplyDeleteI love art. Everyone has a different opinion.
In this case my photographic angle was quite limited. The whole area was fenced off and the canyon walls were sheer drops into fast flowing, deep, cold water. Getting an angle without including the fence was hard enough. Higher or lower was out of the question. I can see a reason for going higher and cutting off some of the upper reaches of the river but going lower would add more of the river and sky, altering the colour composition of the image.
Geoff,
For me the white water at the top of the image isn't a distraction or pulling me out of the frame. It's more of an entrance to the image. Water has a psychological feeling of movement so it provides a starting point to move into and enjoy the image. I feel like I'm fighting gravity by leaving the image at the top. I think I would get pulled out of the image at the bottom by the flow of the river if it wasn't so dark, forming a visual stop to contain the eye.
If anything I would like to put that point more into a corner and creating a more dynamic line for the river to move through the image.
steve