Let’s go back to this image, I’ve got two colors, I’d like to have three, there’s a place right here where I can add a third color where to be fairly believable. These far trees arch type typically green. I can make this go pure green. I can make this go more towards a pure orange. I can make this go more towards blue and this more towards blue and let’s bring the color wheel in here and you’ll see that I’m just working with classical color theory.
On a diagonal, it’s funny too, moving the same diagonal that the color will move on. I’ll have blue and orange and then blue again. That will be very dynamic and I’ll bring them at third color green which will be dynamic and go more with my framing.
Something else really exciting that’s going to happen when I do that, bring that green in potentially. I’m going to create more of an anchor in the image right here as the green, as a separate color compliments gold. There’s not jut going to be orange in here. There’s going to be some aspects of gold and that’s going to again break the frame in a way that works with the framing device overall and harmonizes with this break in the image. And just having three colors is also going to create a lot more feeling of dept and form.
So here’s the editing that I did and I’m just going to turn this on and off a couple of times and if you just watch that area. The green tree, you can really see an illusion of more apparent form or depth in that part of the image coming to the image.
And so now let’s talk about what I wish I would’ve done with this foreground. One of the variations that I could’ve seen if I was more mobile is just running out into the water past all this stuff. It would’ve have been cold but if not so called that I, when I was near the car. I’ve gone back and warmed up pretty quick and I had on sandals anyway.
I could’ve run out into the scene and started the image like this so have a very, very simple start to the image. The problem with this panoramic, no, I wouldn’t want to crop the panoramic out of this is that look at this now. This thing feels totally smack dab in the middle; you don’t get nearly as much of the senses. These points being an anchor because in the context of the shot, we’ve lost an overall shape here that’s very dynamic and the same thing is going to happen here to. This is so close to the edge now but you don’t get sense of this being a breaking point in the image so if I went out and that, what I would probably wanted to do is pick my 14mm lens and pen up and get a lot more sky and make the image very dynamic in terms of the relationship of the top and bottom balance.
I think a better solution just working in a way that I normally worked to shoot this image would’ve been to rundown the shore line and there are some places I could’ve found, where there’s probably little work.
Take one rock and put it right here in the foreground and put it right here in the foreground in this negative space that would have been there without all of these junks sticking out of the scene. So it have a very similar composition but my foreground would just be this one graphic shape and look. If I pick the right rock, it would rhyme the main idea and there would be an implied visual pathway that works on a diagonal that’s the same. There’s a lot of these other diagonal.
To me everything would have fallen into harmony and what’s happening now is that these lines point over to this. Which is needing and it gets you here but they don’t really harmonize with anything in the image for me, they’re busy. They’re rough edged, there’s just a lot of, there’s just a, it’s not as graphic and it just doesn’t stand up and it rhyme this and it doesn’t lead out to it in a way that I would like for it to.
That’s it, hope you enjoyed this. I’d love to hear your feedback. I’ve had people requesting this for a while now since I’ve been doing up this online critiques and I would love to hear whether this was helpful or whether it worked and really appreciate you’re being here on The Mindful Eye and we’ll see you tomorrow on the Daily Critique. Thanks a lot everybody.
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