Paradise

bdcolenbdcolen Registered Users Posts: 3,804 Major grins
edited July 21, 2013 in Street and Documentary
072113_PARADISE-XL.jpg
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  • lensmolelensmole Registered Users Posts: 1,548 Major grins
    edited July 21, 2013
    Very strange symmetrical composition. I don't care for the vertical lines at the top of the frame. The geometry is interesting but since we live in a world made up of a lot of right angles I am not sure it can be considered paradise.

    Lensmole
    http://www.lensmolephotography.com/
  • TonyCooperTonyCooper Registered Users Posts: 2,276 Major grins
    edited July 21, 2013
    Interesting cropping decision. It's 761 x 768, so the intent was to crop
    square, and means the stuff above the brickwork at the top have to
    remain unless the foreground is extended. Nothing can be cropped
    on the right or left without losing something the image needs.

    Behind Door #2 is a rectangular crop that cuts top and foreground.

    All in all, I like it the way it is because the extra space at top and
    bottom emphasizes the isolation of the woman in the scene, and
    that's important to the irony of loneliness in Paradise.
    Tony Cooper - Orlando, Florida
    http://tonycooper.smugmug.com/
  • rainbowrainbow Registered Users Posts: 2,765 Major grins
    edited July 21, 2013
    I'm confused (even more than usual...). The reflection in the window should not be there... I should be seeing the foreground street reflected there. ne_nau.gif

    Since you are obviously one of those Photoshop manipulators, I must say that the contrast of the ghosts and the solitary woman makes the photo more interesting than does the "Paradise" sign.
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