The Silent Company

Thank you for your comments and critiques!

I like the lower part of the table/chaires corner, very nice details and shadows. I like as well the contrast of the yellow wall,  but for me it is too long and empty and don't serve the composition.  I think that cutting a bit of the wall (smaller rectangle or even a square)will have a stronger pronounciation of the lower beauty, (just my point of view;-)).

simply and strong composition! nice colours contrast

This photo is as such already a worthy addition to your previous output with theme chairs & table, and this shows your signature, can't mistake to think this were taken by any other.

So far so good, please let me display the spontaneous crop I envisioned. Surely totally different and by no means meant to be a better version, rather act as food for thought. You see, as presented here this photo is sorta viewer-friendly by it's open display of the whole. I just can't help myself to play a mind game being in your shoes and wanting to tease the visitors with the attached "bare bone cut".

I did this to have a little conversation, being curious to know your thoughts...

Gunnar did not answer you yet... but for me you have taken the soul out from his version....;-))

( it is of course my point of view, we learn and develope in conversing that way... I hope you will not  mind;-))

Niki, Pnina, Markku, thank you you so much for your time! Pnina, your suggestion is very useful, this is a good idea to concentrate to the chairs as for a main subject. Markku, I like your crop towards different and original composition, somhow extreme and courageous that I am usually not using. Very interesting indeed, thank you for this alternative.

Very nice composition. I like Markku's krop, too. Colors are fantastic!

When Markku proposes an alternate crop, I always pay very close attention, as he perceives things in such a unique way; he is a master of (unusual) compositions, where less is always more...

I was quite drawn to this at first sight too, and I admire your perception of the scene & the overall composition. However, I was slightly bothered by the fact that not all the chairs' legs were fully shown, as it undermines the dark patch at the bottom somewhat... (makes it a bit 'too messy', contrasted to the 'bare part' of your comp. above..) I would then have welcomed more shadows (of chairs)  and white of the pavement underneath perhaps...

Without even reading Markku's suggested crop below, I immediately envisioned some kind of crop too, although not as daring as Markku's one...(eliminating the 'messy part', while retaining the darker curves of the chairs as anchor point to the whole) 

When I saw what he had come up with, I right away thought that the photo became much more striking, delivering an even stronger graphic effect...(BTW, I don't think that the photo loses its soul, Pnina -- it definitely changes vision and effect, but I believe that it very much continues to retain that lovely sense of harmony and order which Gunnar saw here...)

After Markku's suggestion, my take would be to crop a little less tightly: Bottom crop: to just underneath of the inner curve(arm) of the chair at the left (keep visible whites, perhaps even greys of wall)  Right-side crop: to just beyond the curve of the 5th chair ( so that only 4 chairs are shown) & a little less white wall on the RHS...

Anyway = just my thoughts & 2 cents' worth, Gunnar :-)

It surely is a fine photo, deserving of discussion of ideas! (as is your other take, although I prefer this one for the format & overall effect)

I've been meaning to comment on this picture for a long time but am just now getting around to it. All your pictures are of high quality, Gunnar, and always impeccably produced. But there are a lot of photographers who can take excellent, beautifully composed pictures. What sets you apart - and this picture is a good example - is your ability to hone in on the purely compositional aspects, the relationships of shape, line, texture, color regardless of subject matter. The subject here is hardly worth commenting on because the picture derives its power not from the identity of the objects but from your personal subjective response to the scene. The precision and balance you've achieved is wonderful. No one else could take this particular picture; only you alone. Perhaps that's why it's so good.

Beautiful balanced picture. I can feel the silence. Regards.