Day 256
Chelmsford
Friday 3rd March 2017
Wet morning and it looks like it's set in for the day, we don't often get days like this in the South East. I've spent time this week gearing up for next week's Tollesbury Photographic Group meeting and it should be a good one. I published the newsletter tonight, so the gig is on!
The light was terrible on the way through the city this evening, very dull and grey, nothing at all vaguely inspirational about it. I thought I was probably going to need to find some water, something reflective to add a bit of sparkle. I turned a corner and here was a set of doors and a shiny car. It's a really simple picture graphically, but all wrong. It's cut in 2 halves by the doors, with the car exiting the picture. Compositionally it breaks all the rules, nearly. With the heavy vignetting from the 50mm f1.8 lens, the composition turns into a circle which draws the eye in to the centre, to the door handles, the sliver of light. Your brain kicks in, nagging at you, wanting to know what's unseen, what's unfolding behind those doors. The car exiting the picture increases the sense of tension, jarring the senses rather than soothing them. The graphic, contrasting vertical and horizontal lines in the image also compete for attention, with the eye carried left to right and yet pushed up to those door handles again.
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