Street Night in Vienne
The viewer’s eye likes to flow through a photograph. It is looking for harmony and rhythm in the image like listening to good music. Elements that distract the viewer are are noise and cause the eye to be distracted and wander.
This street in old Europe has a wonderful feeling of age and mystery. The way that shadows and light define the layers within the receding scene add texture to the photograph. The slightly ‘S’ curved street takes the viewer through the arch and into the past progressing down through time. The edges of the frame have a slight softness to them which adds to the dream quality of the story.
There are a couple of suggestions I would like to make to the photographer. There are no vertical lines and the building appears to be leaning slightly to the right. This may be deliberate or the part of the photographer but the image could be cropped and rotated a little to the left to create a more stable graphic. The second recommendation is the removal of the street light. It has been blown out and there is no detail on the surface. This hot spot distracts the viewer from the intended subject the street and the arch way.
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September 7th, 2008 at 11:19 am
All good suggestions by the judge. However, I left the
light alone because deleting it still leaves shadows
on the ground below it. Straightening the vertical was a very good point.