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Published: 2008-02-19 09:06:55 +0000 UTC; Views: 805; Favourites: 37; Downloads: 20
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More than one . . .I'm not sure how long I am going to leave this here because the balance of the image is beginning to annoy me. I'll leave it for a while and see if I come around or not!!
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love your gallery, that's some cubism i don't see very often in photography. i'll have a closer look at your gallery later
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That's very kind of you to say. Thank you for the comments and appreciation
Thanks too for the fav on this.
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I t sure does. Oh well, I guess that it had better stay. Maybe I will try a recrop and UL that as well
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Not to in any way brag, but I got a DD recently... on a photo I almost didn't post, because I DON'T like it (still don't). There's no accounting for taste as they say.
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It's interesting how others react to your photographs. I think that sometimes it's caused by the fact that we are too close or too emotionally involved with our photographs and are therefore less able to be so subjective in our assessment.
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Great composition.
I've featured your image in my latest journal entry: [link]
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Thank you for the feedback, the fav and for featuring this in your journal.
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It's great in my opinion, no need to crop anything.
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I think it's a brilliant capture. Works fine just the way it is.
Yan
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Oh, thank you. I'm pleased to be wrong on this. Thanks also for the fav.
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No problem. Always a pleasure to view your extraordinary images.
Yan
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Would it be an idea to crop it, and make it a square? In that case I think I would remove a large portion of the left yellow part, and a little on the right hand side, leaving the height as it is. Just a suggestion....
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You could well be right. I seem to have an aversion for making my photographs square and will do almost anything to avoid it. Maybe I need therapy!!
Perhaps I should try making square photos as a way of expanding my vision.
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Perhaps I'm just odd but though I like it I would like it more without the lamps and two brackets. It proportions and colours work for me.
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Yes, I'm not very keen on the brackets but they were there! I left the lights to try and help balance the yellow on the left and also to provide a definite focus point in the image otherwise my eye would tend to wander in circles. However, that is only my point of view and could well be wrong!
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But you took the picture so what you see as being right is right otherwise you would have taken it in another way. You took it so I feel that it's your point of view that matters.
I was only commenting on the image as I saw it but you were displaying both the image and the feelings of the whole scene (which only you saw) from which you isolated the image.
I suppose that as far as the brackets etc are concerned it is about if the image is to be a representation of what was there or manipulating what was there and not improving on it but changing it to become a graphic rather than documentary image.
However you work and however you see your images you have a great eye for shape, colours and contrast that I wish I had but probably never will.
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Good comment, thanks. As for my 'eye', I think that this does improve with practice. I spent the weekend with a well respected Korean artist and was most surprised at what he noticed where I had seen nothing! Most humbling.
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Yes I know what you are saying. It's also very much about good artists taking time and looking with their eyes and average photographers looking with their lenses. The artists are looking to visually explore an object then record it on the seen and unseen level which gives so much more depth, emotion and personal insight. An average photographer points, shoots and hopes for the best in too many cases and I suppose that the new faster digital cameras have a lot to be blamed for in that respect. Take a thousand pictures without having to think and then hope one or two are worth posting. I have felt that your work is like a few (very few) others on this site as being the work of someone who looks as an artist then uses the camera to produce the image in a skilled and educated way. I feel from looking at it that you have a background in art training and then went into photography.
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All true - except for the bit about my art training. I have never had any formal art training; however, I have been to many art exhibits and have studied both painting and photography books for many years so maybe I have unconsciously acquired the required skills! Thank you for such a nice compliment.
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I LOVE it! 
don't take it... make the manip. you need...
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By popular demand I have to leave this. Obviously I am completely wrong with my feelings on this! Thanks for another fav, you are too kind.
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