Rule of Thirds

[Geoff M]

I like the simplicity of this one, really needed a person walking across the dam wall to provide a sense of scale but alas.....

[aim54x]

This is very good...I would agree that adding a person on the dam itself would really make this a masterpiece!

[Reschsmooth]

Great image. There appears to be a slant down to the right.

[chrisk]

I like the simplicity of this one, really needed a person walking across the dam wall to provide a sense of scale but alas.....

this is fantastic. and you're instict is spot on, a person or something else on the dam would have taken it to another level. still, its a dam good shot !

[surenj]

no need for a person; a similar shot sold for millions this year didn't it?

[Murray Foote]

No slant, optical illusion perhaps.

There used to be a very eminent Hungarian photographer in Canberra who used to refer to the Rule of Turds. Perhaps as it should be.

[Matt. K]

A strange but compelling image. The impression that the image tilts slightly to the right is visually disturbing to me...but may be part of its attraction. The dark negative shape in the sky looks ominous and gives the image a sense of despair. I too would have loved to have seen a very small figure...Silhouetted ...perhaps a crow or a greyhound dog or child riding a bike on the parapet . That would have been the icing on the cake. Henri Cartier-Bresson used to find locations like this…….and then wait for something to happen. From the waiting come his master works. Rule of thirds or no rule of thirds it's a fine image. By the way, if you place the image at the bottom of your monitor screen so that you are looking down at it....then the horizon appears to be level. If you place it at the top of your monitor and look up at it then it appears to tilt to the right. An optical oddity.

PS (Hint. Cut and paste).

[Geoff M]

Thanks for the feedback guys. I have checked for a level horizon and it is

I had a go at cloning in a person walking the dam wall, keeping to the rule of thirds of course, what do you think now?

[Murray Foote]

It makes a surprising difference and your eye goes straight to it.

[Matt. K]

That's all it took. One of the most distinctive small specks in the history of photography. As Murray says....it's a magnet for the eye, but how much pulling power does that smudge have?

[Mj]

This is an image that needs a really big wall to host it... scale it LARGE... love the bold simplicity and opposing textures.

[aim54x]

Give that man an award! That very little person really does make the image!

[chrisk]

Thanks for the feedback guys. I have checked for a level horizon and it is

I had a go at cloning in a person walking the dam wall, keeping to the rule of thirds of course, what do you think now?

Brilliant !!

[zafra52]

If I hadn't read the thread, I would possibly
hadn't noticed, but now it seems the person
walking seems excidingly tall next to the hand
rail. Nevertheless, it is still a very good image.

[Geoff M]

If I hadn't read the thread, I would possibly
hadn't noticed, but now it seems the person
walking seems excidingly tall next to the hand
rail. Nevertheless, it is still a very good image.

The rail is a guard rail as you would find on the roadside and is therefore quite low - the top would be approx mid thigh (depending on how tall you are of course!) I scaled the person accordingly.

[Murray Foote]

If you wanted to print large there is a slight amount of haloing around the figure, especially round the head, which you might want to correct with pixel-level cloning.