Bridport Jetty Version III

NICE VERY NICE

Great tonality and perspective! Excellent!

Very nice photo John!

Wow John! This is by far my favorite of the three. The moorings in the front lend some depth to this image that the others were missing. Good composition, good contrast. Very well done John.

... the black surface of the water; the tonality is just fantastic and the geometry is really strong .. Congrats ! Peter

Well done ! I haven't seen the 2 others yet, but what a beautiful perspective. Great tones, light, and textures as well. Still, I have one pretty serious issue here, which is the black bottom...

It doesn't spoil the picture, no, but the top is so fresh and pleasant, that I wish it had stayed that way at the bottom too. Regards.

Just great!!

What can I say?Perfect!

beautiful, im wondering why i had to find this through the high-rated photos instead of clicking on your name to see more of yours. thats what im going to do now! i love these!

Excellent image.

Good!

Terrific tones and my favorite of the three versions but the burned circle in the bottom part is too deep (it's fine in the sky).

This is definitely the best of the group. The others I just looked at..this one absorbed me. It has mood that starts with the deep black water in the foreground and carries all the way into the horizon. This one is simple and refreshing.

John, this is extremely good. One of my favorites from your folders.

I like this one more than the other, it looks more "Dalinesque".

John, this is wonderful -- my favourite of the series. I'm not too bothered by the vignetting at the bottom. It feels somewhat of Michael Kenna and David Fokos..

 

My only suggestion would be to have shot it with a slightly longer lens from further back in order to slightly reduce the size separation between first and subsequent poles (to achieve a more linear progression of poles).

 

Congratulations.

I respectfully disagree with Leigh. I think it's the space that seperates this from the others and the traditional vanishing point images.

I love the simplicity of this image. The darkness of the edges frames the outer two posts, and the negative space within those posts frames the central cluster. It's like a picture within a picture. There's nothing extraneous or distracting here, and I think the high contrast helps in this regard, as it does in the photo of the two boats. I would frame either of these and hang it in my office.

Scott makes a good point about the space, I must agree. Just to clarify my suggestion though, I envisaged a slight increase in linearity as illustrated, to slightly reduce the gap without imposing absolute uniformity.

But I still love the original.

Perfect, just the way it is, IMO. Ethereal. I love it.

Thanks everyone for the encouraging comments. To specifics;

 

Maria, I had reservations about such a deep burn. I may try it a bit lighter in the darkroom.

 

Leigh, thanks for the pointer to those two artists. Being unfamiliar with either (& feeling ignorant) I quickly located their work on the web. Nice stuff and a very flattering comparison! Fokos has one almost identical to this, and I swear Ive never seen it before! :-) It even has the smoothed water the same, as though he used 5 stops of ND too. So much for originality!

 

I did take two frames from further back with the longer lens as per your suggestion, but they were still in the camera until this weekend. Ive just come back from a fantastic weekend in the mountains, and finished that roll and a few others that I will develop tonight (+ some colour). If this weekends negs are as good as Im hoping, this one may never get printed!

 

Scott, I like that space between the first pair of piles and the rest too. I suspect this one will remain my favourite even after Ive developed the last two frames taken with the longer lens.

 

Steve, re your question about detail in the black parts of the post (on the other image), they were all metered from the barnacles (actually small mussels, and very black), so there will be no problem getting good texture there in the print. Its just my scans that leave something to be desired.

 

Cheers,

 

I like the very dramatic line and the fact the horizon didn't completely wash out. Well executed.

Great tones

Very nice, though I'm a bit disturbed by minor "tweaking".

An outstanding photograph and I'm happy that I spotted John's excellent portfoloiosome time ago.

 

To address the elves question: Well the horizon is not the main focus ofthe pic, but the strong graphic composition of verticals, horizontals anda perspective 'tunnel' element is. This might be considered as obeying anotherrule and I'm just waiting  for the next guy to say 'This works becauseit obeys the rule of thirds'. My take on this is:

 

Rules merely give you an idea what approaches you can try. But

You don't make good photographs by obeying rules, but by using and abusingthem.