JUST A PONDERIN'

[FUJI]

Just a pair of ladies, mother and daughter perhaps?

 

Pondering together under the shadow of the Tree of Life:

 

 

Best viewed LARGE......Click on Pic:

 

 

FUJI

[ChrisLumix]

I feel I'd want to lose about half the area beneath the seat, and possibly the shadow of the trunk at the top? Classic study though, really good mono shot.

[FUJI]

I feel I'd want to lose about half the area beneath the seat, and possibly the shadow of the trunk at the top? Classic study though, really good mono shot.

Like this you mean?

CHEERS!

FUJI

[THELONGMAN]

I love this picture Fuji, but for me I prefer the first version, it lets me feel the relaxed space around the subjects, nice one

 

Geoff

[ChrisLumix]

I was thinking something more like this : I understand what Geoff is saying about space, but for me the greater need is to remove the distraction of that trunk and leave only a dappled semi-abstract pattern of shadows. In a psychological way, that kind of does give more space, as the sitters are isolated in a natural abstraction - a photographic double meaning (I apologise if that sounds pretentious) - without a large heavy (and to me, interfering) presence at the top of the picture, leading the eye away from the sitters and out of the picture..

 

(But it's a good study whichever way you  hack it )

 

[FUJI]

Now I'm confused! ;-)

THANKS ALL.

FUJI

[ChrisLumix]

Now I'm confused! ;-)

THANKS ALL.

FUJI

 

Sorry, I was waffling. There's a kind of pun here : the sitters are absorbed in their own 'abstraction', but the dappled tree shadows are also a kind of abstract(ion). Without the trunk, it's more obvious, but also - to my eyes - more pleasing.