Dreams

I love what's going on here... the interplay of light and shadow... the marvelous sky.

-r-

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I like the vivid colour the composition and the simplicity of this photograph.
I really really really want to see the horizon though. I'm not sure if this is a bad thing or not.
...Yes I think the camera needed to be a fraction higher to give extra depth in the sky low down.

Very simple, almost minimal. It's an interesting juxtaposition between man-made & nature. The shadow is interesting. But, without a real subject there seems to be a void as if something is missing from the frame

The subject is the photograph.

I think is a great image, simple yet very interesting and indeed the subject is there, the man made walls, the light shade and clouded and well contrasted sky is the real subject here, I also find this image well balanced lighting and composition wise along with very fine details, even the textures of the wall work comes in amazing sharpness.

Yellow and blue are high-contrast colors were, used fort example, with great effects by the Fauvist, as in this painting of London Bridge or this of the Parliament (both by André Derain).
Rina is therefor in known territory, when composing the colors of her "Dreams". Does it work ? I'm not sure. At least my immediate reaction was to concentrate on the clouds, wondering how cirius, cumulus clouds and the traces of a plane passing by and disappeared in the horizon, might convey a feeling or even a dream.
I'm left with a square (two dimensions) and a three sided prism (three dimensions) which are surely not without abstract visual interest.

Pure light and form--who could ask for more?

Here's another by the same artist:

http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=14158572

Wow, Rina! Where you been all our lives?

--Lannie

And DIRT in the corner. Don't forget the dirt. Pure? Hardly. All we have to do is look at the photo while we're fantasizing.

"Pure light and form" in this context means "nothing but light and form"--hardly a putdown, nor an explicaton of the concept of "purity."

--Lannie

An ordinary place. An ordinary day. Then suddenly the sky does this, with a little help from the friendly neighborhood jet. And at just the right moment--not too soon and not too late--the photographer presses the shutter button. Presto! A beautifully composed and provocative photograph.

I love the photograph but hate the title. This is not about dreams. It's better than that. It's not about anything. It is about itself. (For once I agree with Fred G.) And being only about itself is enough.

Strangely, the photograph makes me thing of Goethe's Faust. The Devil allows Faust to have immortality until he utters, "Moment stay, for thou art fair." That phrase crossed my mind when I first saw this image. Of course we cannot make the experience stay--only the image of it. "There is only the text," as someone once said.

There seems a tradition in photography where photos are made using a wall–brilliant white or brightly colored–to bisect the frame while the top half is filled with saturated blue sky and often, a puffy little cloud. These photographs are generally very pristine and somewhat sterile in their affect.

Here, we have a photograph with a similar structure, but one that is anything but sterile and pristine. Instead of a flat and brilliant wall, we have a somewhat dingy intersection of stained walls and a floor that looks in need of a good sweeping. The normally simple sky of the more pristine photographs has been replaced here by one that is rather complex including not only many and different types of clouds but also a jet contrail.

My 1st reaction to this photograph was not a positive one. I felt that the image was a bit off balance to the left which I think is largely driven by how the wall intersection and the jet trail form a vertical line on that side of the frame--along with what feels like more mass overall being there. On the other hand, the diagonal line of the shadow in that same area helps push the eye into those wispy clouds with the same diagonal direction. If I squint my eyes to remove the smaller details I do think the image has a nice rhythm and division of space within it. However, I think the detail–including the the puffy clouds along the top edge of the wall, the contrail, the stains and unswept floor–just make the image maybe a bit too busy and unattractive--at least for me.

I'm also not crazy about the way the image has been divided by the wall. The division seems neither here nor there, as if it really wanted to be cutting the image in half but then there was the fear of “breaking the rule”. As I said above, when I squint my eyes I lose specific detail, the image works fine, but when I really look, it just feels off.

To be clear, I'm not a fan of the more pristine sort of image I described above, but here I do think a bit more simplification might have helped this image. Right now, I feel there are too many competing ideas and objects.

This image works very well for me. Excellent use of colors and an effective composition. Well done!

There are layers here. High-altitude blue followed by cirrus clouds (in which the con trail lies), the cumulus clouds from the day's heating, and then the structure, which is the least impressive. I see the concept of dreams as one progressively looks up through the layers from the mundane structure, to the day to day clouds, to the advancing system clouds and then to near space; each step progressively moving away from the hardness of the immediate to the dreaminess of the untouchable.
Was the sky really that blue or was the luminance of the blue reduced to make it look that way?

Is it a good image ? yes it is a good image ,as good as any other good image produced by Nikon D300 cameras,all the credits I think will goes to that well made camera for its perfect exposure and excellent colors reproduction.
Does it worth to be the POW ,no it does not worth ,the photographer Does for her other great images in her portfolio.
Why ?  For a lot of reasons,the Elves have chosen the least photographers dependent image from the Rina's portfolio ,and this image does not have that artistic points to talk about, and the viewer will forget it immediately upon seeing  the next image, and for its little impact of the eyes.
 

I find the title clever. In the picture we have an unfinished house. It is up to us to fill it with our dreams, and the sky is the limit. The use of color & contrast is excellent in this picture. I wonder what other types of framing were possible. The wall seems a little off. I suspect something more interesting could have been possible.

I have actually had a dream about this space, so I find it a perfect title.

good lines and color

I don't agree the subject is the photograph. It needs something in the photo

Nice image Rina, just needs a fine tuning.
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Ken Thalheimer "I don't agree the subject is the photograph. It needs something in the photo"
John A. "It feels off'
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Yes, the photo needs a 'subject', aka 'center of interest'. And it feels off because the balance IS off. The interest for the top half is the top left, and you lose nothing by cropping the right to make the top left more prominent. You gain balance- 1/3-2/3 too. Less is more.

Crop 1/6th off top and right. Now the cloud in the center of interst.

Now, just cleaned her up for a date...

Although I am still not crazy about the image, I do think that Michael's modification here does create a stronger image. Most importantly, for me anyway, is that this crop doesn't change how I read the purpose of the image. The crop may in fact ruin the implied reading from the title and possibly eliminated a bit of the room for dreaming for others. The image didn't carry that message for me and I see it as more of a graphic image than a lyrical one.

Some of my earlier comments still apply here, but I think the balance is much better now where the brights are nicely offset by the shadow. The motion is still there and that contrail is no longer a distracting element--to me the top end was the most problematic. It still feels a bit busy but maybe a little less so in the crop.