Lookimg West

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  mfohl

• Jul 28, 2015

Nice.

 

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  blansky

• Jul 28, 2015

Really nice. I like the long visual horizontal curve created by the bridge going up and your eye then going to the balance side which is the tiny "island" going down.

 

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  NedL

• Jul 29, 2015

lovely symmetry

 

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  oolalajp

• Jul 29, 2015

i'm in love with the calm that i feel when i view manyof your images...about this i especially appreciate that the "horizon" is not simply a flat line but has curvature, echoed so softly in the water below and clouds above. your images seem to bring out a certain poetry in me. thanks for sharing.

 

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  JPJackson

• Jul 29, 2015

Very nice!

 

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  jovo

• Jul 29, 2015

Thank you, all. This composition breaks some people's rules about avoiding a centered horizon. For me, though it may be static, it's also exceedingly tranquil. I think the darker bottom half helps, too, giving that part greater weight.

 

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  blansky

• Jul 29, 2015

jovo said:

Thank you, all. This composition breaks some people's rules about avoiding a centered horizon. For me, though it may be static, it's also exceedingly tranquil. I think the darker bottom half helps, too, giving that part greater weight.

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I think the so called rules on centered horizons is basically the choice of whether the author wants tranquility/static or wants dynamic. I think the rule is more about whether a photographer actually makes that choice and didn't "accidentally" do it which it seems is often a "rookie mistake". I photograph a lot of scenics in Hawaii, and find I center the horizons there a lot. There is something about the place that screams tranquility.

 

• jeffreyg

• Jul 29, 2015

The centered horizon doesn't bother me. When I make an image similar to this composition I will frequently print it mor than one way. In this case cropping some of the sky and printing as a "horizontal" as opposed to a "square" will emphasize a lead into the land and IMO make a more definitive statement.

 

• Too old to care

• Jul 29, 2015

Wonderful.

 

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  jovo

• Jul 29, 2015

Thank you, Michael, jeffrey and Totc for your comments. A while ago on dps preview ( digital photography 'school'), a 'professional' dished up a list of 'rules' that he contended would make your landscape photographs wonderful. Among them was the admonition to NEVER center the horizon. I referred him to Michael Kenna's site for some re-education on that issue. I could have sent him to countless other sites as well. As Blansky observes, what matters is that wherever the horizon is placed there should be some thought and intention given to that choice.