ooooh... a freudian religious reference. I see it. I know - I tried rotating and cropping it so it was more normally oriented and it didn't really work.
excellent points. particularly the contrast in color. I kept thinking about it as yellow vs blue. but you are correct and in fact it's yellow vs black. I read, on a trivial pursuit card, loooooong ago that yellow on black is the most contrasty noticeable easy to observe/read color combination to the human eye. I'll try to use that conciously in the future.
yeah - that's a good way of expressing it. I kept thinking that the light is sort of running contrary to the flow of everything else... standing like a tree. but I the geometry vs nature makes sense. thanks
and that makes me notice that one of the main lines of the picture is the line of cars running from the lower left corner to the vanishing point. my eyes follow that line most. then there's this start contrasty light running contrary to all that.
when I say vignetting, I mean darkening around the edges. that can be accomplished through burning, photoshopping, lens deficiency, lighting it like that, or whatever. I don't know if that coincides with the official formal definition.
in this case, the sky is darker there - not a lens deficiency. the sun is setting right around the vanishing point so the parts of the sky farthest from that should be darkest.
The contrast between the bright sky and the almost hard to see dusky darkness of the road is what captures my attention. It also draws my eyes downwards, away from the brightness of the blue.
There's a professor in my department who is doing a lot of research on psychoaesthetics and the Golden Ratio, but I don't fully understand it, mathematically.
my brother's all into nautilus curves which have something to do with the golden ratio. the spiraly fire pictures were of particular interest to him for that reason. though the one I posted looked more yingyang to me than nautilus curve.
math of golden rectangles shmath of golden rectangles... though I suppose it's as beautiful to some mathematically as it is to me aesthetically.
I suppose it's beautiful mathematically to me as well. in some ways. but I don't fully understand it, mathematically.
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The amazing contract of the silloette, the stand alone light, and the clound and sky being so vivid.
Also, the angel helps a bit. If it was just flush with the ground, it wouldn't be as interesting.
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I know - I tried rotating and cropping it so it was more normally oriented and it didn't really work.
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yeah - that's a good way of expressing it. I kept thinking that the light is sort of running contrary to the flow of everything else... standing like a tree. but I the geometry vs nature makes sense.
thanks
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I think what sucks my eye in is that it is darker all around the edges (even the sky is darker) and the center sky is bright compared to the rest.
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your vignette comment made me notice how the sky is brighter at the car's vanishing point.
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So that's a factor of the lens? I had thought the sky was actually darkened like that.
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in this case, the sky is darker there - not a lens deficiency. the sun is setting right around the vanishing point so the parts of the sky farthest from that should be darkest.
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but I make you no promises.
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There's a professor in my department who is doing a lot of research on psychoaesthetics and the Golden Ratio, but I don't fully understand it, mathematically.
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though the one I posted looked more yingyang to me than nautilus curve.
math of golden rectangles shmath of golden rectangles... though I suppose it's as beautiful to some mathematically as it is to me aesthetically.
I suppose it's beautiful mathematically to me as well. in some ways. but I don't fully understand it, mathematically.
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