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02/03/2005 09:25:41 PM · #1 |
I apologize in advance. I don't normally post multiple photos in multiple days but I think I have a few more (the first is yesterday's photo-a-day) for which I would like some critique from my dpc friends.
 
Thank you!
Message edited by author 2005-02-03 21:26:37.
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02/03/2005 09:41:24 PM · #2 |
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02/03/2005 10:57:12 PM · #3 |
3 in a row is embarassing...last try!
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02/03/2005 10:59:28 PM · #4 |
| Oh I LOVE the first one. I think the composition is great - with the tree slightly eskew and the monochromatic aspect to the picture. Really well done. I'm not even sure it would be better in sharp focus - the grain and slight fuzzy look to it enhances the mood. Anyways, just my opinion. |
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02/03/2005 11:07:48 PM · #5 |
ARE YOU FROM WOODSTOCK??!?!
Damn, small world
I drove by that church tonight and was thinking about shooting it.....WIERD
Message edited by author 2005-02-03 23:09:02.
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02/03/2005 11:12:15 PM · #6 |
That's funny...a town of 30,000 people tucked away in sw ontario!...and there's two of us on the site!
Cool!
Message edited by author 2005-02-03 23:12:31.
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02/03/2005 11:22:13 PM · #7 |
| I spent a week between Woodstock and Tillsonberg. Longest month of my life :) |
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02/03/2005 11:23:18 PM · #8 |
| Both suffer a bit for having the facade blocked by something, the tree in the first and the fence in the second; however in the first the path and the tree help tell a story that is rich, and lead the eye out then in and around the frame, so the shot is about more than the facade of the church. The exposures and tone are good in both but the path and the tree make the first stand out |
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02/03/2005 11:27:48 PM · #9 |
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02/03/2005 11:38:33 PM · #10 |
Thanks everyone! I couldn't move an inch in the tree and church photo because the tree was blocking a very bright lamp on a post that was lighting up the church and providing the backlighting for the tree.
Thank you very much for your constructive help!
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02/03/2005 11:46:01 PM · #11 |
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02/04/2005 12:05:25 AM · #12 |
Although I like that the railing is not in the first pic, I have to say that compositionally, the second i the stronger. First, it's unobstructed by the tree. The tree separates the viewer from the church and completely removes the posibility of emotion. Leaves it cold - just a building.
Coming up close, having it in your face, and looking UP at it, gives it respect, and presence, and makes the viewer feel smaller. It gives it importance, as a religious establishment SHOULD, at least to a person that is not ambivalent to it already. You're making a statement about it.
If you were to take an arial shot of it, it would make the CHURCH feel smaller, and unimportant. The viewer would become the object of import.
I like the second very much. I just would have liked to see it without the fence. :) Also, it seems to be almost illuminated from within the bricks themself, which also adds power, and makes you feel that a presence is there.
Message edited by author 2005-02-04 00:10:12.
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02/04/2005 12:24:01 AM · #13 |
for the first one. I like it, but I think if you lay on the ground right in front of the tree and take a picture of the church that way, with the it would turn out much better.
imho.
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