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Documentary - taking care of a small farm My first idea is to capture some chores of taking care of a small farm house. Through these photos...
Nice work! I'm going to discuss the last image. All the lines & shapes overlapping lead my eye in & out to the edges & back in again, on a new path each time. On the left shape, the light & shadow create an additional element for the eye to follow. That lighter area really attracts the eye because it's much brighter than the rest of the image.
ReplyDeleteThe overlapping elements create depth.
The colors of the buildings are all related, so they help to unify the shapes.
There are different quantities of each shape. This adds some visual variety & allows the eye to find the different individual areas & each texture within.
The blue sky contrasts with the rest of the image. The lower point of that blue triangle could be more off center (left to right). Even though it adds depth, I wonder if the blue could be eliminated. The image would be more abstract.
As well as all the other elements relate, the blue does not have anything to relate to. As part of your process, did you try any shots without the blue?
This is a nice set of photos.
ReplyDeleteOn the first image, the roll of chicken wire offers a nice contrast between the open, sparse pattern on the outer edge and the way the brightness becomes quite dense further in. Then the dark circle in the center, with the sparse single layer again, nicely echoes the outer portion while also contrasting sharply with the bright portion of the roll. I feel that it would be a bit stronger if all of the wire was in focus (the outside, lower left is slightly out of focus), but overall the composition has nice movement around and inward.
On the second one, the two most eye-catching elements are the black hole and the dangling bit of wood. But the nails and the barely-holding-on bits of paint give added interest and texture, too. It's nice that even within this fairly muted color palette, the faded reddish brown in the top 1/3 and faded light green (or maybe it's actually white?) at the bottom give it a bit more interest without distracting from the elements mentioned previously.
The green door has a more obvious focal point in the handle hardware. There are fewer individual elements here, but it's still not a boring image. That green is nice against the bare wood where the paint has long since flaked off, and the peeling bits tell the story that the flaking process is ongoing. The bare metal of the handle is also the same gray color as the weathered wood, which is a nice repetition. Someone once took pride in painting this door, but it has been neglected for a long time. The very small patches of rust add another color variant, and also speak to the aging process.
The reddish sheeting in the third image tells less of a story, but I like the angles formed by the diagonal pieces, which also create nice little shadows underneath. The sharp edge of those diagonal shadows contrast nicely with the shadows formed by the branches. I like how the branch shadows go from sharp edges to softer because of the angle of the sun hitting it (I'm assuming, or maybe one branch is further away than the other). Finally, the two halves of the siding have a somewhat contrasted look in that the right looks much cleaner than the left.
Janice already commented on the final photo, so I won't say as much here, but I like the various angles of the roof lines and the differing shades of the wall shingles, which might be because some have faded more over time or could just be the angle of the sun hitting them at the moment. As with the green door, there's definitely a feeling that this building has seen better days. Not that it would be an option, but I bet a photo from above would be interesting.