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Phil Douglis | all galleries >> Galleries >> Gallery Eighty: A city portrait – impressions of Mission Beach > Sunset Run, Mission Beach, San Diego, California, 2010
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07-SEP-2010

Sunset Run, Mission Beach, San Diego, California, 2010

Early evening light defines the tire tracks of the trucks that keep Mission Beach pristine. A lone runner churns through the sand as the thronged boardwalk and its wall of beach houses seem to watch him as he passes. My 415mm telephoto lens compresses the spatial perspective of the image, making it seem as if all of the blue trash barrels along the wall of the board walk stand virtually side by side. Actually, they are spaced much farther apart than it appears.

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Phil Douglis26-Sep-2010 00:18
So called photographic composition "rules" are made to be broken, Alister, and I break them all the time, and for what I hope are good reasons. I wanted the viewer to become this runner, as you note, and to center him was the only way it would work in that manner. I also the leading lines of the tire tracks completing the process here. You are right -- I am asking my viewers not to just observe, but rather, to participate.
Available Light Images25-Sep-2010 22:09
Ha, and what of the rule of thirds... This is a classic example, where traditional teaching has to stand on its head.. "Put your subject in a "thirds" power point" they say....

Here, centering your subject, puts him in the centre of his world, where he is of course... we become the runner, rather than simply observing him... lovely work
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