Revisited
I’ve gotten some play (here and here) with this image from my South of Cota series, but the more I look at it, the more I think it could be better.
I was looking for a marine layer day, and I was hoping I wouldn’t have to wait for June gloom to get one. Lucky for me, we were socked in with it this morning, so I tried a few more shots. I think I like them better than the original, but I’m still weighing it and also trying to figure out which of these two I prefer.
I don’t know what I’d do if these people ever trimmed their trees any other way.
Copyright © 2007 Liz Kuball
I was looking for a marine layer day, and I was hoping I wouldn’t have to wait for June gloom to get one. Lucky for me, we were socked in with it this morning, so I tried a few more shots. I think I like them better than the original, but I’m still weighing it and also trying to figure out which of these two I prefer.
I don’t know what I’d do if these people ever trimmed their trees any other way.
Copyright © 2008 Liz Kuball
Copyright © 2008 Liz Kuball
Labels: Flak Photo, Wanderlustagraphy
posted by Liz at 8:38 AM
8 Comments:
What's with that new shrub growing in the lower corner? Are those weeds or intentional pink flowers? I want you to take another picture in the fall so I can find out.
...and wouldn't it be great to come across the gardening of it at some point?
Hey Liz,
I still prefer the original shot. The saturated colours, the sense of the neighbourhood in which this shrub lives, the three strong colours going on (blue, green and red), and the framing by the curb closes off the photo so well. But that's just my opinion!
Kate.
I like the wide shot, too. tight they're bizarre shrubs, but wide their put in that whole neighborhood context and it's like an alternate suburbia in which people trip their shrubs to look like... um... saggy bikini tops?
I agree with Kate, I like the original much more. The surroundings and blue sky provide the context that gives this image it's punch.
My problem now is that I like the fact that you can see the sky through the trees in the bottom one, but that image was shot with my wide-angle lens, a lens that I'm growing to hate, and it's not as sharp as the one above it is. Fingers crossed the marine layer comes back tomorrow (it's already gone now), and I'll reshoot to see if I can get the best of both worlds.
I hear you, Kate, on the blue, green, and red. And I think for that series of images, it works well. But I'm kind of wanting to appropriate it for another project I'm working on, where the less saturated colors feel right. I don't know. These trees are becoming my version of Christenberry's red building in Hale County, Alabama. ;)
We liked the bottom one for composition, but would suggest trying to get the curb better aligned in the horizontal plane (like you did in the middle one). Don't know if your camera has shift, but you could try a lower standpoint and shifting up a bit for that sky in the trees. The middle one looks better in terms of colors on my screen and yes, a tad bit sharper, although you're the best judge of that having the original images and not just the screen versions.
Hello -
I think the orginal is best. The diagonals leading from the bottom corners form a nice triangle just at the point where the trees meet - a nice formal setup.
I also like seeing some context - remove that and you have something much less interesting.
Iain
Thanks for all these comments, votes, and suggestions. I was doing some printing last night, and the original version of this image looks much better in print than it looks on the screen, so that muddies the waters even more. ;)
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