Comments interspersed:
>>>My thanks to the organizers for the chance to comment. I had 3 terrific
pictures to look at, in which big and beautiful RED was the feature.
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My thanks, too. I thought that putting the other two "red shots" with mine made mine
look better than it would have otherwise. Nice framing...
>>" RenCen " by Bill Sawyer, USA
The more I look at this one the more I like it. I first thought of it as a
purely abstract composition, with a nice colour block and some related
tones. Then I began to wonder, What _is_ that red cylinder? So now it became
a much more interesting picture. The verticals and diagonals play off each
other very nicely. The only thing that doesn't fit so well in the muted
colour harmony is the bright beige light in the window on the right. This is
a picture I'd like to have taken, but don't think I know how to, yet. Bill,
what did you meter on to get such pleasing balance?<<
The red thing in the middle was some kind of support column. This was one of my
earliest rolls of film shot through the ZX-5n/28-70 f2.6 combination (the lens
overwhelms the camera). I used the matrix metering, so cannot take any credit for
doing anything special - really just an experiment. FWIW, I was shooting for the
patterns/colors as I think of this sort of thing as "visual push-ups" so to speak.
Thanks VERY much for positive feedback, I'm developing some confidence in my images.
And again, thanks to Paul Stenquist for the scans, I wouldn't be doing this were it
not for his generosity.
Bill
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