TAOS DOOR

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Am I picking up on the slightest amount of wide angle effect from shooting head high? I think that it would be a bit better if shot kneeling, or if run through perspective correction in Photoshop.

 

--Lannie

an interesting catch. I like the bluishness of the door set in the beaten-up wall. What's with those spirals? Was somebody locked inside (as there is no door knob to open the door) and out of boredom drew some extraterrestrial signs? An E.T.? Cheers, Micheal

I suspect you are correct. Thanks for pointing that out to me.

Hey, I don't have any explanation. I only take and you have to figure them out.

David, it is a nice door, a bit unusual in color and shapes painted on it... "glowing" colors on a cracked wall. I think though that the frame is heavy and a strong competition for the eye, what do you think of a simple one taken from the dark blue of the door? in order to give the stage to the door itself?

I hope you don't mind...

Thanks for your thoughts. You are a master of composition, so you are probably right. I first thought that the door should have some frame for reference, but giving it a little thought, I do see your point. I think one's intent is important in this discussion. As a story, I think my version is better, but as art, I think you are right.

Wow, does this door open into another dimension or something? Great shot, David.

David, great photo. That color blue is so wonderful and so southwestern against that brown cement. The texture of the grass and logos scratched into the door add life and texture. It's really fun to look at. I don't quite understand, to get a little philosophical for a minute, your take on the framing. I agree with Pnina's comment. More importantly, I don't get the distinction you're making between art and telling a story. Good art, especially good photography, tells a story. I wish more photographs did, instead of just catching a nice picture. This is a good photo and it is art, to me, precisely because there is a story here. I find the framing to compete with both the compositional, the more technical aspect of the photo, as well as with the story. As a matter of fact, for me, it gets in the way of the storytelling, about what's through the door, why the logos are there, what's the rest of this building like and what setting does it stand on. The frame boxes me in and isn't allowing me to breathe outside of it or keep my eye away from it.

I guess I'm spaced out or something. At some point, when mention was made of "frame," I took it to mean the DOOR FRAME! And then it appears we are talking about the artificial frame I placed around the image. Good point. It is too heavy and distracting. What I was attempting to propound was that it is possible to have two types of images from the same basic photo and material. In this case, one could crop it very tightly and have almost no (or no) surrounding adobe. In other words, door only. I think that would be as good as the present image in many respects. What I had meant to suggest was that by showing more of the surrounding material, I was giving it context. Context is not always necessary to a good image. It could still be art. I was only attempting to suggest that I wanted it to have this context. Somehow I got confused when talking about the frame, and took it to mean the door frame. Thank you all in extremis for taking the trouble to comment and so congently express your very worthwhile views.

So David, you had a little stroll thru some of my old shots and I now do the same. This one I missed a while back. So here I go now with ....

I LOVE THIS DOOOR

 

The Blue again.... mmmmmmm mmmmmm

 

This seems so warm and charmingly foreboding. In the large view one can even make out the word "WARNING" scrubbed away by time... or something else.

 

I can imagin seeing one bloodshot eye peering from the hole in the door.

 

Hitchcock said the scariest things happens in the warm light of day... Right under our very noses.

 

Thanks. Pretty mundane stuff compared to the Radioactive guys like you. But it takes all kinds eh?