9th Place Pond Reflections by Angela Johnson by Canon DSLR Challenge


June 6, 04	Š2004 Angela Johnson

Although the horizon looks tilted, it's really not.

Shot in the Milwaukee Zoo at a pond.

PS was IR toning and framing.

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Olaf.dk		08-Jun-2004 04:52
Angela, I wish, but it was only the title... If I was only half as good as you at making art with my camera!!! What it boils down to, I'm afraid, is that I just don't have an artist's mind. I do, however, recognize it when I see it. Six and a half years at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts has given me that ability, I guess. Luckily for me, in Architecture, being an artist isn't all that counts. Architecture is an artform full of restraints - and one thing you have to be good at, is making the compromises work FOR you, instead of against you. --Olaf

Guest		08-Jun-2004 01:10
zape, I did focus on the building. I have no idea why the clouds would seem sharper. In the original file, the building and the trees are as sharp as the clouds in the front. (Saving for web might have torn up some of the detail.) Olaf, Great minds think alike, eh? ;)

Olaf.dk		07-Jun-2004 20:42
One word: Art! PS. your title is very close to a title I had in mind for a photograph, still only in my minds eye: "Pondering Reflection" -- Olaf

zape		07-Jun-2004 18:43
A very catching infrared, I like the tonality of it. Pointing the camera downwards did really good to this one. I wonder if the focus isn't too much in the foreground. Maybe it's just my cheap notebook lcd, but to me the water seems in perfect focus and the trees in the background are slightly oof. If it was intentional I find it a little disturbing.