I hadn't looked much at my Athens photos - because I didn't take many fantastic photos there. But going through them, I noticed this "front porch" section of the photo of the museum. Voila!
With a more abstract version below.
I hadn't looked much at my Athens photos - because I didn't take many fantastic photos there. But going through them, I noticed this "front porch" section of the photo of the museum. Voila!
With a more abstract version below.
Perfect study on light and shade and perspective! These are fantastic, Charles. The crop of the second one is perfectly done. Great work.
Ah geez, thanks! 😅
Nice job, Charles. I prefer the less abstract one, although I love abstraction generally. For me, that light strip at right anchors the image; by comparison, I feel my eye sort of running off the right edge in the second. Also the left corners feel anchored somehow with the diagonals running right into the corners. So for me the first is a stronger composition. And that little strip of shadow on the leftmost column is not an issue for me. I like abstract images with little imperfections that enliven them for me. Not so much the strip of blue sky.
But they're both good! Well done.
Thanks. I've recently leaned towards and sort of favor keeping a bit of "reality" in my abstracts.
After some back and forth I prefer the first. I think may be due to the light area helping to draw the eye through the image from the left side.
Like Chris, my head initially preferred the 2nd, but my eyes are telling me the first.
Both are good and certainly close in impact.
This is an interesting discussion.
Pure, abstraction can be a bit unsettling. What is it? Where am I? What am I looking at? Whereas a tiny bird in the corner or a bit of sky kind of grounds the viewer and clarifies what you're looking at, I guess is kind of comforting. You'll see this more in my upcoming water reflections!
Pretty much my own sentiments about abstraction in "straight" photography, Charles (as distinct from photograms and inherently totally abstract stuff like Hiroshi Sugimoto's electrical discharge directly on to film).
Great minds think alike, Chris! lol
Or is it that fools never differ? ;-)