"El Socialista"

Me ha costado ver la foto, descubrir de que se trata. Me gusta, en serio, tiene ritmo, fuerza

Gracias por el comentaro Joan, a mi me pasa algo raro con esta foto, no se si me gusta o no. Es dificil de mirar, ya le estoy tomando bronca...

Someone said it's dificult to look at, I don't know wether I like it

or not really :s

What do you think?

The thumbnail of your photo was very intriguing. When I opended it, my first impression was a very strong feeling of deep space. Nevertheless your photo is really hard to see: it is somehow not pleasing. I tried to understand why. My conclusion is that perhaps there are too much "gags" in it.

 

1: BW

 

2: stripes (regular parallels)

 

3: rotated space.

 

(4?)I am not sure if the whole photo is not a negative. Are the white lines higlights or shadows turned into negative?

 

I straightened the pic in PS so that the column be vertical. And te whole pic became pleasing - at least for me. IMO if the column were vertical, and not in the very centre but a bit to the right then the BW stripes were more diagonal. And that would be enough for a good and pleasent abstract - for me, at least.

Sorry for the long answer. I wonder if anybody has a different opinion. I would be glad to learn it. And what do YOU think about my hypothesis?

Ivan

P.S. Why is it "The Socialist"?

thanks Ivan for your critique, it was useful to realize that in fact I tried too many things in an already very busy composition.

 

I took 3 shots for this one and didn't even try one without rotating. I go through this place everyday on my way to work. Maybe I'll try a straight one the next sunny morning.

 

It's not a negative, I just added some contrast in photoshop and cropped it.