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The Gathering

Postby biggerry on Wed Jul 23, 2014 10:59 am

I am keen for some thoughts on this image - processing wise, it was shot for the specific purpose of converting to monochrome, so colour is not an option, compositionally I wanted a simple landscape, there is plenty of room to move and crop in this frame since it's a about 10 vertical frames stitched together.

Possibly cropping from the right to remove some of the negative space which seems not to be used due to the inclusion of the roos on the left?


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Re: The Gathering

Postby ozimax on Wed Jul 23, 2014 2:52 pm

I don't know what it is Gerry, but I like this. The image is lonely, sad maybe, and evokes feeling. Are you going to print it large?
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Re: The Gathering

Postby gstark on Wed Jul 23, 2014 5:21 pm

Love it, and yes, print it BIG

I'd certainly try cropping it from the right, about halfway between the current rh edge and the tree should do the trick.
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Re: The Gathering

Postby zafra52 on Wed Jul 23, 2014 6:37 pm

I agree with gstark. However, I puzzled by the title.
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Re: The Gathering

Postby Murray Foote on Wed Jul 23, 2014 8:51 pm

Gathering of the bouncing sheep, I think.

Very sparse and dramatic and impressive. I don't think cropping in from the right will help the composition. However, it might be worth trying moving the tree and the shadow further up the hill to the left.
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Re: The Gathering

Postby gstark on Thu Jul 24, 2014 8:11 am

Murray Foote wrote:However, it might be worth trying moving the tree and the shadow further up the hill to the left.


Probably be a good idea to get permission from the property owner before doing that. :biglaugh:
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Re: The Gathering

Postby Murray Foote on Thu Jul 24, 2014 8:21 am

He'll never notice.
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Re: The Gathering

Postby gstark on Thu Jul 24, 2014 8:34 am

Dunno.

I'd have thought that moving the shadow (as well as the tree) would have been a dead giveaway.
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Re: The Gathering

Postby sirhc55 on Thu Jul 24, 2014 12:29 pm

My thought - get rid of the sheep to give total isolation to the tree. Sorry Gary, but this is a very stark image that works in many different ways.
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Re: The Gathering

Postby Matt. K on Thu Jul 24, 2014 12:32 pm

The image commands attention because of its scale and because the composition eases the eye to the tree, the dominant tonal feature. The space around the tree gives it a prominence, an importance, in the image space. There is a mystery to the tiny figures on the left, but the sloping horizon, which is the dominant line in the image space, rolls the eye back to the tree. The 2 major tones being the ground and the sky balance each other perfectly and help to keep the tree 'suspended' in its almost dead centre position in the composition. I like the image because its apparent simplicity is cloaking a complex arrangement that has been duly considered during it construction.
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The Gathering

Postby Geoff M on Thu Jul 24, 2014 6:19 pm

A most pleasing presentation, I would leave it 'as is'. Very well done.


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Re: The Gathering

Postby biggerry on Fri Jul 25, 2014 10:58 am

ozimax wrote:I don't know what it is Gerry, but I like this. The image is lonely, sad maybe, and evokes feeling. Are you going to print it large?

cheers mate, i will probably never print it..i have not printed anything but kid photos for years :)

gstark wrote:Love it, and yes, print it BIG

I'd certainly try cropping it from the right, about halfway between the current rh edge and the tree should do the trick.


Murray Foote wrote:Very sparse and dramatic and impressive. I don't think cropping in from the right will help the composition. However, it might be worth trying moving the tree and the shadow further up the hill to the left.


Thanks Gary and Murray, i will reprocess it with with those options, the crop from the right looks promising and creates an entirely different feel - I still find it quite incredible how the placement of a single item within a frame can drastically change the impact of a image.

zafra52 wrote:I agree with gstark. However, I puzzled by the title.

thanks Zafra, ya gotta view the larger version, they are roo's up on the hill.

sirhc55 wrote:My thought - get rid of the sheep to give total isolation to the tree. Sorry Gary, but this is a very stark image that works in many different ways.


I thought about that, but did not give it a go - standby for a ultra minimalist version ;)

Matt. K wrote:The image commands attention because of its scale and because the composition eases the eye to the tree, the dominant tonal feature. The space around the tree gives it a prominence, an importance, in the image space. There is a mystery to the tiny figures on the right, but the sloping horizon, which is the dominant line in the image space, rolls the eye back to the tree. The 2 major tones being the ground and the sky balance each other perfectly and help to keep the tree 'suspended' in its almost dead centre position in the composition. I like the image because its apparent simplicity is cloaking a complex arrangement that has been duly considered during it construction.
That's my take, anyway.


Matt, thanks for taking the time to put down your thoughts, your view and comment is always insightful and a pleasure to read.

Geoff M wrote:A most pleasing presentation, I would leave it 'as is'. Very well done.
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Re: The Gathering

Postby biggerry on Mon Sep 01, 2014 9:52 pm

finally got some time to have another look at this image, here are a couple of variations, with my favorite being the crop from the right.

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Re: The Gathering

Postby Murray Foote on Tue Sep 02, 2014 1:30 am

I do prefer the second one and don't think you want to lose the bouncing sheep.
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Re: The Gathering

Postby gstark on Tue Sep 02, 2014 8:10 am

As the roadie said (to noone in particular) "two. Two."
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Re: The Gathering

Postby zafra52 on Tue Sep 02, 2014 8:49 am

The second take work for me better. 3/3 :up:
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