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Good morning to my great EPZ friends.
I have jumped right out of my comfort zone by uploading this series of shots taken at Anglesey Abbey nr Cambridge.
They were taken last July and were my first attempt at alternative views and different angles - my husband had been teaching me to use my new DSLR and I was a very raw photographer at the time.
V2 is a stylized version worked on in paint.net and V3 is the statue as it looks to the passer by the other versions are my interpretation and view of a great statue using odd angles to see what I came up with 
The mod added as V4 is my first attempt at removing backroung in an image not sure but kind of like it
| Camera: | Pentax |
| Lens: | 18-55mm |
| Recording media: | JPEG (digital) |
| Title: | Hope |
| Username: | 
DebbieBMP |
| Uploaded: | 18 Dec 2008 - 5:41 AM |
| Tags: | Anglesy abbey, Cambridgeshire, General, National trust |
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excellent compo here our friend there,just looking Autumn Jewels,pic u always remember says wife
Good for you Debs, its always good to try different things, I like the angles you've chosen for this subject, no 1 shows great abstract form, fine work, Adrian
V1 tells the real story here for me, I almost feel I don't need any further information. But with V1 I do think that removing the sky and foliage would focus attention on the intimacy within the sculpture, just replacing the background with a pale neutral grey (as V2 but lighter) would work for me - I wish you'd put this up for mods!
Photographing sculpture has become a passion for me - I think there are two challenges, to convey three dimensions in two; and to convey someone else's artistic vision faithfully but in your own way. The composition in V1 does that for me.
Moira
I did some shots of statues at a cemetary not long ago, can get some interesting results as they are effectively models that don't complain, get bored or get cold!
V1 - I like the framing idea, you're peering into the shot and almost feel like you're spying on something you should not be. I think cropping in a bit more would strengthen it a bit. Try initially choping away quite a lot of the left for starters. Keep a dark slither to the left for a frame effect, do it bit by bit - crop, look at it, assess whether it needs more or feels right.
maybe do the same with the top too - may or may not need that. Keep the hand though, that works well and lets you know it's a human statue we're looking at.
V2 - the solarisation effect makes it look like something from Dr. Who! interesting angle, but try to avoid letting his head touch the other statue - it's better to have a bit of free space between your subject and things surrounding it where possible - so a quick move to the right would have done that here.
V3's fine - maybe benefit from a little more room at the feet as they're almost on the foot of the frame, but other than taht, yeah, it's fine. the composition is less creative than 1 and 2 of course, so this is more of a "record" shot in style.
V 4... I'd keep the tree myself, that large expanse of white looks cold and empty and it begging for some clouds to add interest. So you could nick some clouds from another shot if you wanted.
The crop for V1 would make a revered N shape - the arm being the slanted bit of the N
I'm glad you've added further versions, V4 works for me (though I suspect that all or most of these would work better against the black background.)
Once you've uploaded I don't think you can add the Mods button, and it's something I don't think of as often as I should. It takes a certain amount of courage to let other people loose modifying your vision... !
Moira
well first its nice to round it off to a clean 40
V1 i like the framing of the head in the inverted v shape left by the arm and the fingers on the hand i like,
i would perhaps crop in tighter on the lh and rh in an attempt to try and make it nearer a square, even if it means unticking constrain proportions and squeeze it up to square, much as i like the subject and composition it suffers from a weak sky leaving large bare patches which can be a bit stark, since i see in variations you have had a go at removing the background, what about trying to put a new one in, The thing that suprises me is that the one mod you havnt tried above would be a mono conversion of V1 which i think would be the strongest image.
so its a good image which blows away the other versions, it has attracted a lot of attention which is brilliant, but i would go back on a blue sky day or similar and get it perfect if possible.
intesting shot and full marks having the balls to shove it up front.
regards,
Phil
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