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stormdogHere's a picture of a certain, nearly universally known, piece of art, oddly replicated on the window of an abandoned building on the site of the Damen Silos, in Chicago's lower west side.
I'm thinking about this one as a candidate for a convention art show.
This is actually a crop from a larger image that shows a bit more of the building. My thoughts in selecting the portion I want included the following:
*Is there too much bright green grass? Is it distracting from the picture's centerpiece, the Mona Lisa?
*Is there enough of the building present in the frame to provide context for the Lisa's location?
*Does the selection of building that's in the image act as a good frame for the content? I like the vertical brickwork at the top an the horizontal brickwork at the left that provide straight lines in to the middle, but is there too much, or too little?
I may still tweak it some as I look at it. I have a while. I may decide to take more grass out, or crop in on the right just a touch to frame between a couple of window panes. Depends on whether I want the building to seem to go on significantly off the right side of the frame, or if I want the piece to have a definite border on the right.
The more pictures I take, the more I see how much like painting it all is; the very same thought needs to be put into matters of composition and form. I see, too, how distortable reality really is through the lens. It's been a sometimes-surprising learning process.
I'm thinking about this one as a candidate for a convention art show.
This is actually a crop from a larger image that shows a bit more of the building. My thoughts in selecting the portion I want included the following:
*Is there too much bright green grass? Is it distracting from the picture's centerpiece, the Mona Lisa?
*Is there enough of the building present in the frame to provide context for the Lisa's location?
*Does the selection of building that's in the image act as a good frame for the content? I like the vertical brickwork at the top an the horizontal brickwork at the left that provide straight lines in to the middle, but is there too much, or too little?
I may still tweak it some as I look at it. I have a while. I may decide to take more grass out, or crop in on the right just a touch to frame between a couple of window panes. Depends on whether I want the building to seem to go on significantly off the right side of the frame, or if I want the piece to have a definite border on the right.
The more pictures I take, the more I see how much like painting it all is; the very same thought needs to be put into matters of composition and form. I see, too, how distortable reality really is through the lens. It's been a sometimes-surprising learning process.
