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Saw these today, and found them interesting, I've fiddle with this a little to try to bring the patterns out, but fairly undecided on if they work or not.










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Didn't anyone like these ? Craig and I found a cool fountain in homebush, it had some nice patterns on it, the patterns look better in black and white.

I like the first one - as the pattern isn't perfect and it has a interesting texure - that is it??????

Craig isn't around so I'll answer for him, the first one is the same pattern, but with a small layer of water flowing over it, as part of the fountain or water feature. The water foams and bubbles a little when it hits the edges, giving the texture you mentioned.

Thanks Katie.. tell Craig i would like to know what the unedited pic looks like....

Hi craig

good to see your consciously framing with lines aligning up in the cormers, in composing i always try to make at least 1 or 2 lines meet up in a any of the 4 corners of the frame. In most images i can see you have utilized one of golden guidlines i always adhere to in my work.

Glad to see also that you are taking the time out to isolate certain elements that would notmally not catch anyones immediate interest, your images force us to look closer and see more than what is obviously presented. Having a strong design background i can see why you chose to photograph these repetitive cascading patterns, they present design and form and the manner in which they were captured in pure minimalism is commendable.

On your next venture out I would suggest is to work more on dramatic perspective to form a point of interest, at the moment they are just patterns to most people, if you take the image at a certain angle that has a definite vanishing point the image will be more interesting it will lead the eye. Currently the images just make the eye look at them flat, there is not much visual movement. Next time think about how different camera angles can give a dramatic improvement to your work, number 3 is a good example.

if anyone is wondering what i mean by framing it's a term i use to describe composing not those photohsop actins used to make frames.

Thanks for the comments, I'll post the original water shot when I get home.

Listening to what you said Wendell I do think I could of shot these better and at a more interesting angle. I was a little wary with the dry ones, as I didn't want the fountain to fire up and start wetting me, and more importantly the camera, but fortunately it stayed dormant.

Craig

Of these #1 is the only one with any strong interest for me. It has more texture to it largely because of the water. The others are a little flat.

Thanks for being honest Peter. I guess the challenge I set myself was try to make something fairly mundane a little more interesting. I think I failed to do so, apart from in the first shot, and really it's almost cheating as the flowing water did most the work for me. I think some of Krystian's recent work inspired me to try this approach but I have a long way to go yet.

As promised here is the original straight from the camera version of #1, better late then never.

A

I like the 2nd as a Landscape and bigger as well.

Mic.

#1 and #4 for me Craig. IMO the shadows formed by the tile edges form an interesting and rather strong visual pattern. Perhaps exploring a few cropping options in #4 could have produced even more visual appeal. Nice shots.
cheers
marco