> > http://www.web-options.com/_B296674.jpg
Thanks to everyone for replying to this - I've been very surprised by the size of the response. I think generally others have the same view of it that I have. It's in a very funny spot, light-wise. It seems to be really difficult to find a time when there is some sunlight on the scene. I happened to get lucky with this one because I've never seen that dappled light there before, and that's why I stopped to try again. I've photographed it before when the trees have been in full foliage. They are figs, so the foliage is quite spectacular and tends to overwhelm the composition. In particular they take away the graphic lines of the windows, which I think are an important part of the composition. They divide the space; the leftmost phone box continues the line of the left window, the tree continues the line of the next one, then the young man continues the line and finally the right-hand phone box makes an equal division and an implied line upwards. So cropping the windows would, in my view, weaken the composition. The 2 men make the picture more successful than previous attempts. With noone in the frame it is too flat and static for me. Other versions have people walking parallel with the picture plane, and lack life or dynamism. The fact that these men break the picture plane give it another dimension and some movement, which is heightened by them being mid-stride, stepping off the pavement. Their obvious enjoyment of each other's company gives it a nice human touch, I think. Here's a version with no people: http://www.web-options.com/_B296673.jpg As for the phone boxes, I think they are probably listed. Listing is something that one of the cultural quangos can do to things of architectural merit to prevent them being destroyed or ruined. BT tried a few years ago to do away with many of the old Gilbert Scott K2 & K6 phone boxes, and many of them were promptly listed because they do make a pleasant contribution to the streetscape and are very much part of Britain. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_telephone_box -- Bob > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of graywolf > Sent: 08 December 2007 20:06 > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List > Subject: Re: Opinions please > > OK, I think that if it were my photo, I would crop it just > below the top of the > window sills. I might crop a bit off the left too, making the > phone booths > balanced and letting the people and the tree give it > dynamics; although I would > have to try that to know if I would really like it that way. > > Phone booths are pretty much a thing of the past over on this > side of the > Alantic. Sad, but then almost anyone can afford a prepaid > cel-phone. Speaking of > which, I have to remember to get a new card as my time is running out. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
