Significance

[Paul Lange]

Whats more significant in this image, the building or the couple cuddling?


Significance.jpg by Paul R Lange, on Flickr

Another from Astana last year that I have just found and decided that I like.

 

[Rob MacKillop]

Always the human presence. Very good shot. You are on fire today!

 

[Paul Lange]

Well, I might have been on fire last year. It took me the best part of a year to finally get round to deciding if I like it or not.

 

[Brian Moore]

I think the top distracts me, Paul. When I first opened it, I found an immediate interest value, but all I was seeing at first was the top half. I scrolled down to find the couple and when I did they seemed too close to the edge. Scrolling up and down I found I liked the top half and I liked the bottom half, but the two halves together rendered the couple almost incidental to the image.

Am I making sense or just havering on here...? (Probably the latter I suppose; and yet I will continue.)

What if you crop it square, removing the top third? Or even crop the top half away? I think that might give the couple a more significant role in the composition.

 

[Paul Lange]

I think it is a fair point that you made Brian. Cropping the top does add more emphasis on the figures. I would have liked them a bit further from the edge too but if I recall correctly there was a distracting lamp post or flag pole in the way.

 

[Beth Anthony]

i'll second the crop. just a bit off the top. nicely spotted!