Curves in Form

Like this image a lot - it's simple and yet very pleasing to look at. Toning works wonders here IMO. Not sure what's happening on top of the frame though - looks like a film scanner artifact.Regards,

Alex.

Great image, everything is working.

Please rate or comment as your time allows. Thanks for your thoughts.

Very nice, simple design here. I like how you've controlled the depth of field (shallow). Don't know what you're doing at the top of the frame, however. Overall, good work!

Alex, Darren, Robert,

 

If you all are referring to the dark line and two small points that 'stick up' from the top of the image, this is part of the 'sloppy border' that goes all the way around the picture. It's a finishing option that the lab I use offers. Many professional and student photographers around the San Francisco Bay Area seem to prefer it. I like it because it gives a sort of artsy feel to the print. Everyone is free to comment on whether they like it or not, but it's not a part of the original image or composition in itself.

Lovely.

simple is definitely the way to go. very nice graphic. really nice tones

Nice abstract but I would like to see more detail in the subject.

Beautiful imo. I love the lines.

Nice eye, great curves

Blah! Not very interesting. Doesn't hold the eye.

Great shot, Vicki. Possibly your very best upload to far. Wonderfully composed with very beautiful light. No nit-picking except for the funny frame edge at the top, and maybe, after second thought I'd try to brighten up a bit the top left area of the background. Still, darn good... keep it up ! Cheers.

Love it, the depth is great, it proves that simplicity is most of the times works best.

I like it....don't know what it is but I like it.

An abstraction seen and executed with sensitivity and total awareness---elegantly simple and beautiful.

A soft curve and a hard horizontal line, a blurred echo in the background surrounded by gentle greytones - a geometrically clear well-designed shot. But what the heck is this disturbing frame good for?! IMO these two black nipples at the top and the uneven black lines are opposed to the rest of the picture. It's like a greek statue with quillings.

*lol* thank you, Vicky! What do yourself think of this more "conservative" framing? It adds to the clearness of forms instead of thwarting it, doesn't it?

 

Regards

Hey, never underestimate framing! It's no gag. Either you don't frame at all, or you do it deliberately. A frame becomes part of the picture and affects its impact in the same way, as clothing does it with you.

I agree the composition is very pleasing but I find the incopatibility of the part of the shadow at the bottom right corner with its extension further up, a bit distracting. In a sense the notch in the shadow created by the light diffraction contradicts the smooth curves of the object and its shade. I don't know how you feel about digitally manipulating your photographs but my suggestion would be to use a clone stamp on the shadow in the bottom left corner. Alternatively if you preffer a more "photographic" technique it might be a good idea to burn-in this corner. Yust an idea :-).

 

Incidentally, I think that such a modification would also enhance the 3-D perception of your creation.

I don't know, it just doesn't quite work for me. It's certainly a subtly lit, graceful composition, but my eye isn't satisfied with the up-down-and-across motion forced by these bars. Perhaps the path my eye takes along those long slender bars is just too long, and boredom sets in somewhere on the journey. Maybe it's the fact that in whatever direction my eye travels it's simply escorted off the image, without feeling it's ever reached a destination. I've attached a crop which benefits from a stronger diagonal composition and greater visual tension, at the expense of those graceful curves and the backgound shadows. What d'ya reckon?

I'm having trouble with it, too. I don't mind that I don't know what it is, but I think what I find undesirable is the duplication of the lines. I think I would rather see just one set. It seems to me like a minimalist image gone crazy.

Trevor's suggestion looks good. But the little unevenness of the shadow of the chair (or table?) becomes even more dominant.

I like Trevor's idea about cropping it but am not sure if a vertial crop is the way to go... I've attached an image with a crop from the right which gets rid of the "offending" bottom right corner as well as one of the curves. Thoughts?

Yoh, Vicki, I like this a LOT better.

Me too!