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Fog and Light

Postby Nigell on Fri Jun 11, 2010 11:32 pm

Part of my winter series. As usual click the image for the larger on black photograph.

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Re: Fog and Light

Postby surenj on Fri Jun 11, 2010 11:49 pm

Nigell I think these are brilliant! I would have never seen these scenes and never thought of using negative space this way.
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Re: Fog and Light

Postby Mr Darcy on Sat Jun 12, 2010 11:46 am

#1 is my pick of these. Brilliant in a dark sort of way :?

#2 needs to lose the dark object marring the reflections slightly to the right of centre Otherwise great.

#3 works better for me in the small image. Maybe it would be better on white than on black. The black emphasises the lightness of the "blacks" in the image itself.
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Re: Fog and Light

Postby Nigell on Sat Jun 12, 2010 12:01 pm

Thanks for the comment guys. I toyed with the idea of removing the bouy from the second image, Still undecided thought I would get others opinions on that one. If I were to pick my fav it would be the third one. Partly because of the light and the fog, but I really like the way the road is lit without light (well not the fog lit light if that makes sense). In the larger image a3 you get to explore it a bit more than you do on the 1000x which makes it a little different. Loved shooting them though. Any chance I get a chance to shoot in fog I will leap at it. These were shot at 1:30am and it was pretty cold. Fun in the winter :)
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Re: Fog and Light

Postby aim54x on Sat Jun 12, 2010 2:17 pm

The first is very nice (and without a doubt my favourite)... if only you had a bit more width in the image it would have made a very nice pano wall hanging. The colours add an air of mystery that cant really be done as effectively with black and white, but I do urge you to do a conversion just to see.
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Re: Fog and Light

Postby Matt. K on Sat Jun 12, 2010 6:52 pm

I like that you've given the images plenty of space. All to often some photographers crop tightly and that kind of rams the image into your face. Empty space in a photograph is like a silent moment in music. Nice work!
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Re: Fog and Light

Postby Nigell on Sat Jun 12, 2010 9:46 pm

thanks for the comments guys.
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