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Okay, I must confess, I like cemeteries.
Instead of taking ”normal” compositions like I usually do, I used the ”zooming effect” to draw the attention on one word and create a feeling of rush to it.Canon 7D + 18-135mm IS
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I like it! Interesting that you can actually read some of the words despite all the blurring!
create a feeling of rush to it.
I wondered what exactly you had in mind for using this effect when I first viewed the image. 🙂 Does “rush” carry the connotation of “rushing to the grave”? Or did you have something else in mind? 🙂
I used that effect to blur everything except the word ”DIED”. I wanted to force the attention on that word.
I didn’t wanted to show the person’s name and how long he lived. I rather wanted to show what is life’s final fate.
What I like about that technique is all the blurred lines that draw the attention to that word and give an illusion of speed. Life’s only a vapor that rushes to the grave.I know this is not the kind of picture that we’re used to see. This picture is in direct contradiction with many composition ”rules”. Personally, I like that picture, but not in the same way as I would like an image of a sunset, for example. It’s more like the kind of picture that makes you meditate rather than please the eye.
I think the effect works to illustrate the mad rush of life that suddenly ends in death. That’s the feeling I got even before I read your description of “Life’s only a vapor that rushes to the grave.” It makes a person stop and think about eternity and what is beyond that sudden impact of death that brings this life to a screeching halt. The bright area on the right side of the photo draws my eye away from the tombstone. Perhaps you could take this shot when the entire scene would be in shade to make the lighting more even. I also wonder if a vertical shot might be better since the tombstone is vertical.
Perhaps you could take this shot when the entire scene would be in shade to make the lighting more even.
Good advice, @dan-cope!
Silly me, I wasted time trying to edit locally that picture to reduce the dynamic range with no success (even tried B&W). Didn’t even thought I could go reshoot later… 🙂 I just have to wait for a (nice) cloudy day, since that cemetery is only at a few miles down the road from where I live. I could also try a vertical shot.- This reply was modified 54 years, 9 months ago by .
I like your idea. You did a really good job drawing to the central word. Face it, statistics show that one in one will die. Our lives are short in an eternal perspective. What we do with them and the gifts that God gives us are important. As a side, don’t spend a lot of time looking at the picture if you have a sinus headache.
Nice shot.
I did a quick reshoot of that tombstone. It’s really hard, if not impossible, to capture the exact same photo but here’s a try. I include both a horizontal and a vertical shot.
@dan-cope had a very good idea about trying with more even light. I prefer these two over the first one, but the right top corner full of white stipes annoys me. Which one you guys find the less distracting?- This reply was modified 54 years, 9 months ago by .
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I agree, the white streaks are distracting. The lighting on the left side and around the bottom is much nicer than your first shot. It may be one of those things that you’ll have to just fix in post processing in order to get the effect your looking for. Here’s the result of a little work I did with it in Photoshop.
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