In many ways, I find this an appealing composition, and I wish I liked it more than I do. My primary issue is that the processing doesn't begin to do the image justice. It feels washed out, lackluster, sort of flat and drab. Additionally, there's an aspect of the image's composition that bothers me. Where the boards meet the bricks is pretty much exactly halfway down, it's a "centered horizon" if you will, and it's just static. That powerful bisecting horizontal is even robbing the pipes of the compositional strength they ought to have. THere's a lot of ways arou8nd that, but it all depends on what you've chosen to crop out.
This, of course, is just my opinion, so take it for what it's worth. If you think I'm full of beans, that's fine with me :-) |