Oil barrel in Lofoten

• glbeas

• Aug 16, 2007

Playing with the tilt? An interesting way of isolating the subject.

 

• User Removed

• Aug 16, 2007

In a way, I wish the background was in focus. By doing so, the photograph would not just be about the barrel (the subject, as stated above, as which you have made it), but rather about this interaction between this barrel and the beautiful landscape that exists around it. The photograph would take on a deeper meaning past just a picture about the barrel.

Best,

Ryan McIntosh

 

• Colin Graham

• Aug 17, 2007

I keep coming back to look at this. I like the soft dreaminess of the landscape interrupted by the sharp dischord of the barrel. Nice irony.

 

• Kerik

• Aug 17, 2007

Excellent use of DOF. I don't need or want the background in focus to know what it is. The image is much more dynamic this way. Nice job.

 

• Bjørn Joachimsen

• Aug 17, 2007

Yes, Kerik, it should be both easy and interesting to imagine how beautifyl the background is without seeing it in detail.

 

• Shawn Dougherty

• Aug 17, 2007

I'm normally an f64 guy but the smoothness of the high key tonalities and out of focus elements seem to elevate this to far more than "a picture about the barrel". It has become more of a dreamlike image bringing to mind, my mind anyway, thoughts about the role of humans in the landscape as well as our effects upon it. Very well seen and presented. All the best. Shawn

 

• Thomas Bertilsson

• Aug 17, 2007

I think you've done very well with this. Lofoten is a place I'd like to go some day. The selective focus is well chosen, the shallow depth of field definitely adds a dreamy quality to the image that I wholly appreciate. I actually think that just the background itself even is beautiful and interesting. Meget fin!
- Thomas