#87 - Rings at Dawn

karlabbott · October 8, 2011

I went to the art park at the North Carolina Museum of Art and to my surprise, they light up the rings when it's dark enough outside

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#1:

#2:

tinamarie52 · October 8, 2011

I like the first one, but maybe you could crop out some of the grass to bring the hoops a little closer to the Rule of Thirds. Awesome sky!

Chris

Froch · October 8, 2011

Love that second shot (with some cleanup).
Part of what I'm personally struggling with as a photog are shooting shots like this. Although pleasing, I personally want more. I'm finding it's not enough (again for me personally) just to shoot a pretty building, or flower.
When I see the second image, I start to fantasize what this would look like with an A and B story. This particular view lends itself for framing of a 'B'-story within the rings (although I think that should be the A story and the rings the B-story). Good Luck!

karlabbott · October 9, 2011

tinamarie52 wrote: »

I like the first one, but maybe you could crop out some of the grass to bring the hoops a little closer to the Rule of Thirds. Awesome sky!

Chris

Thanks, Chris

I'll play around with that one and see if I can find a satisfactory crop to repost.

Froch wrote: »

Love that second shot (with some cleanup).
Part of what I'm personally struggling with as a photog are shooting shots like this. Although pleasing, I personally want more. I'm finding it's not enough (again for me personally) just to shoot a pretty building, or flower.
When I see the second image, I start to fantasize what this would look like with an A and B story. This particular view lends itself for framing of a 'B'-story within the rings (although I think that should be the A story and the rings the B-story). Good Luck!

Froch, thank you for your comments. What types of cleanup are you suggesting?

As per telling a story within a frame and using these rings as the framing element, I agree, that would be quite interesting. Deciding which story to tell that is framed by such rings would be interesting. This particular art installation was designed by Thomas Sayre and is titled "Gyre". From the NCMA website: "The title Gyre refers to a circular or spiraling motion—gyration—and a spiraling shape, like a vortex or tornado."

Perhaps I need to capture these in a storm

Cheers,
Karl

karlabbott · October 9, 2011

Here is a slightly cleaned up version of the second image.

#3:

karlabbott · October 9, 2011

And #4 (a more rule of thirds balanced version of #1):

GretaPics · October 9, 2011

I guess I would play around with a tighter crop eliminating the foreground lights and then straighten the horizon line because then the photo might lend itself to a more "what is that?" or science fiction type of story. The backdrop of the sky is fantastic the way it offsets the rings. GP

WhatSheSaw · October 10, 2011

I think I would like #3 if the lights in the FG were cropped out. Nice light!

cbbr · October 11, 2011

Those are really cool and the sky is great.

karlabbott · October 11, 2011

GretaPics wrote: »

I guess I would play around with a tighter crop eliminating the foreground lights and then straighten the horizon line because then the photo might lend itself to a more "what is that?" or science fiction type of story. The backdrop of the sky is fantastic the way it offsets the rings. GP

Thanks for the feedback -- that's definitely an interesting take on it. I think I'll play with that some more on the next version.

WhatSheSaw wrote: »

I think I would like #3 if the lights in the FG were cropped out. Nice light!

I thought I could get away with the lights being in there as the rings are man made, but coupled with the above comment, some type of abstract, sci-fi looking image may be just where I need to go. Thanks for the feedback!

cbbr wrote: »

Those are really cool and the sky is great.

Thank you!

travelways · October 12, 2011

GretaPics wrote: »

I guess I would play around with a tighter crop eliminating the foreground lights and then straighten the horizon line because then the photo might lend itself to a more "what is that?" or science fiction type of story. The backdrop of the sky is fantastic the way it offsets the rings. GP

karlabbott · October 16, 2011

And for further consideration:

#4:

#5:

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tinamarie52 · October 17, 2011

I like #4. I like that even tho we don't see 3 full rings, we know that's what they are.

VisualXpressions · October 17, 2011

Much better with the spot lights cropped out...

WhatSheSaw · October 17, 2011

I agree - #4.

karlabbott · October 17, 2011

Thank you everyone for your feedback! I went ahead and entered #4

#87 - Rings at Dawn

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