#125 - Not sure about this...

billseye

I may have some time to shoot a different location... even a different town (since i'm bi-civic these days). But I've been attracted to the idea of representing the relative scale of man's creation and natural majesty. Here's my take from the window of my condo in Santa Barbara.

From the ground the Santa Barbara Mission (lower right-center) and the one time Catholic School (lower left) are SO impressive in size and spirtual grandeur. From a distance (with the flattening effect of 200mm) these grand architectural tributes to God pale against the natural grandeur that sits just to the north.

My sense is that this idea (and photo) take way too much explaining (or a perfect title which I'm yet to come up with) to be effective. I also need to find an effective pp technique to draw the viewer's eyes to the foreground buildings. It definitely works better when viewed large (CLICK IMAGE to view large in gallery). Just wanted to put it out for comments.

Relative Grandeur of Man and Master

richtersl

billseye wrote: »

I may have some time to shoot a different location... even a different town (since i'm bi-civic these days). But I've been attracted to the idea of representing the relative scale of man's creation and natural majesty. Here's my take from the window of my condo in Santa Barbara.

From the ground the Santa Barbara Mission (lower right-center) and the one time Catholic School (lower left) are SO impressive in size and spirtual grandeur. From a distance (with the flattening effect of 200mm) these grand architectural tributes to God pale against the natural grandeur that sits just to the north.

My sense is that this idea (and photo) take way too much explaining (or a perfect title which I'm yet to come up with) to be effective. I also need to find an effective pp technique to draw the viewer's eyes to the foreground buildings. It definitely works better when viewed large (CLICK IMAGE to view large in gallery). Just wanted to put it out for comments.

Relative Grandeur of Man and Master

Wow! What a view. I think I can get used to that very quickly. Do you have a color version or a different B&W version? The composition on this is a winner, but on my monitor the landscape details are getting lost in the current B&W version. Maybe tone the contrast down a bit?

cbbr

I am having the same problem - all of the detail is lost because of the size. The original size I great, but for the contest no one will see it as the size is limited IIRC.

kdotaylor

It may be my monitor, but I just see a lot of gray.......can we see this in color?

TonyCooper

Overdone, Bill. All the detail is lost.

DaddyO

It would be nice to see the original original