Hey, why you took back your name? "Visar" sounds just about great! Anyway, under any other name the images would still be as great!
Your crop.. that's it! I was looking for other ways but that's it! It is *the* crop for this one! The subject matches the frame and vice versa.
The fact that you see now those elements in a "messy" order of their own might also be that your perception gets more and more aware the longer you have to do with photography, Visar! And it is both very natural and also good this way. It seems to be that there is some kind of "exercise" in seeing things and scenes. The photographer, so it seems to me, doesn't have to really search for any special kind of spectacularity. No, the photographer sees automatically the available spectacularity, achieving thus the state of being able to make things visible that would be only passed by otherwise. You are in the right path, I think.
thank you a lot for the thorough reading and suggestion Nick,
in fact, yes, that depiction of elements that interact in a paradoxal way was a good chance to shoot! it is really strange these days Nick, almost everywhere i go i get to find many elements standing close to one another, in a messed up scenery as a whole, having a more close observation there always something really provocative to pop up! Like here, i was sitting againt this scenery for a few drinking hours with a dozen of friends and i never really was attracted to shoot while chairs were spread out comforting butts of people! Only when they left it was rather intriguing me to frame it!
about the composition, the crop you suggested gives me the impression that is losing a bit of ambiental integrity. but then, the way i presented, uncut version, is still somewhat loaded unnecessarily with elements that do not really disturb as much as they do not serve anything, however, the tight crop you suggested, and the one that now i worked out after your suggestion, seems to gain some sort of other integrity- say in the philosophic sense! unlike the previous, that is in between the documentary and conceptual photography,
If it says something tome, and it does that in a very strong way, it is exactly the opposite - the abandoned place, the absence of people who actually had to be there, because we see chairs and a writing on the wall and that fence! So where are they? This kind of antithesis is really strong here.
The composition was OK, but what a bout a tighter crop (attachment) and taking the whole white chair at the right? And would some harder contours help too?
Still the lighting matches the very atmosphere perfectly! The strong light and the strong shadow, they are both on the image, which I think is almost absolutely necessary for such a view in the style of "end of times". It must be a nice thing to drink a whisky on such an abandoned scene!
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