Oklahoma City Memorial 13

More from the Oklahoma City National Memorial. I was really captivated with the meaning behind the chairs, as well as the photographic potential. I am positive that I will go back there again someday and shoot these chairs more...

 

Your thoughts on this composition?

Any comments or ratings are appreciated! :-)

I think the composition is good, maybe crop a little more water from the bottom and if you had been at a little more angle for better lines. But I like the photo Lou Ann.

Hi Lou. Very beautiful. I like the reflection that has not lost the actual colors. Thanks for sharing. I will be back to see your other photos soon.

I've looked at this a couple of times over the past 24 hours, and I think a crop up from the bottom just to the top of the concrete wall reflection is the ticket. As David mentioned, angled more to the right and looking back might have presented an interesting perspective. As you took over a hundred, did you get that one? LOL! Cheers! Chris

Actually, the series of events went something like this: I went to the site on a gorgeous Saturday afternoon. Lots of people in all of my shots. And I shot a lot. When I got back to the hotel, I realized that I had been shooting with ISO 1600 (UGH!!), left from a couple days prior when I had been shooting at night in Dallas. SOOooo, I got up early the next morning and shot with the right ISO's at sunrise. (That's where this shot was from. And many of the shots I took that morning (without a tripod) were ruined by handshake (dummy, me!).) The sky wasn't pretty, though, so I am not even looking at any of the shots from that shoot that includes sky (which eliminates a LOT). Then I went to church in the suburbs. After church, I was supposed to be getting on the road for a very long drive ... but the sky was AMAZING, so I went back for another shoot, all on ISO100 ... you've already seen the shots taken that time that were any good.

 

Really, the majority of the shots (actually, there is a total of 318 shots) were trying to get an interesting composition with the chairs. I will spare you seeing a zillion different views of the chairs ... I'm trying to choose the ones that were truly the best.

 

I'm not totally convinced about that crop. I agree that it could use a different view ... this is, in fact, a crop from the original. But I really like to stick with the 6x4 proportions (yes, Len, don't let the crop determine the image but vice versa ... but it's still something that I try to stay with....)... We'll see what I can find.

Another beautiful shot. The calmness of the water fits the memorial nicely and reinforces the idea of quiet introspection.

I concur about cropping part of the water, it would create a panorama of the image and the real subject is the chairs and their reflections, I love the colors, and the way the chairs seems to be "glowing", and the iconic symbolism.

You did a nice job on this one, Lou Ann. I probably agree about the crop but on the other hand, if you crop it, you lose the symmetry. It is difficult to decide how and where to shoot here.

Odd man out again. No crop for me. I find the composition well-balanced as you shot it.

 

I love the tree reflected so well on the left side and would hate to see that go. Cropping up to the top of the reflected wall would leave you with just the tree trunk, which wouldn't make any sense at all.

 

A different angle might be interesting. Next time -

 

Cheers ~