The Old Bank Theatre

[James J]

Sadly I can't agree that it's a case of agreeing to disagree purely because of this comment:



That is terrible advice, while I'm all for inovating throwing 500 years of established composition technique in the bin is perverse expand on it move it forwards yes but decide its wrong? If people take you seriously you could set there development as a photographer back, all 'rules' of composition are there to be broken but while your learning adhering to one or two of the basics will improve your pictures.

I also find it baffling that a clearly talented photographer can't see beyond his own style and appreciate a different approach which ignoring the vile HDR processing has the potential to be a decent photo (not world beating but better than the average snapshot)

So you think flowers in HDR look good? HDR is a 21st century invention and you are trying to tack it onto "500 year old" techniques. Doesn't even remotely make sense. If you also think that the composition is right even when there is a massive gap in the foreground, you are very much mistaken as it draws the eye to the single part of the image which isn't remotely interesting or intended. Composition is about drawing the eye to what you want the person to actually see instantly, not to getting round to seeing it eventually due to problems with the composition.

As for the second part of your post, I'm sure you'll find that I said earlier that if the picture wasn't in HDR and taken a few steps to the right to get rid of the gap in the flora, the photo would be 10x better. I firmly believe that HDR and bold single tone flowers just doesn't mix. You can try and argue with me all day, yet I've NEVER seen a photo that makes a flower look good when processed that way.

 

[Rojin]

The building works fine as a focal point for me, there's foreground interest but my eye always rests back at the building. I'm not a fan of the processing (I cringe when I look back at when I played with HDR when I first got a camera) of the original. The bridges shot is actually a really busy image which my eye doesn't find anywhere to rest. It's still interesting though.