No. In a nutshell, it doesn't work for me - irrespective of flipped or not.
Trying to reason why... there is nothing for the eye to gauge depth with - especially as you have a monocolour background - and this leaves the brain-cells continuously trying to place the oof bird in front of or behind the focused bird. It may also have helped ahd the oof bird mirrored the other birds posture - it has a slightly unelegant look to it.
Posted by Larry Corbett on November 8, 2006 at 5:28 AM
Not sure where your coming from there Tom anyhow this is it flipped
An explination is that, its the way you read therefore the natural progression of looking in western society.
Western people find it unnatural to follow a sign/picture right to left, so the most focal point of a picture (if there is more than one focal point) should always be on the LHS. This is most important with panos - take the "Old Bulls" post of mine and flip it so the eye is on the right - it feels uncomfortable, well its does to me
With respect to the above, my eye now naturally comes to a stop on the lead pintails head/eye.
T
Posted by Larry Corbett on November 8, 2006 at 5:42 AM
Ahh I see it now, the image does look better this way
Thanks for that Tom, will remember that in future, I never think to flip my images
Posted by John Gardner on November 8, 2006 at 6:47 AM
Hi Larry, I think I would do a vertical here, and only include the bird in focus!
Posted by Rob Ashton on November 8, 2006 at 10:14 AM
Thanks Tom. Your idea of flipping it does work. Amazing how it makes such a difference. I've never thought of the fact that we read left to right and our eyes are therefore accustomed to moving in that direction.
It does work for me in the flipped version.
Rob
Posted by Sean Bolton on November 8, 2006 at 1:49 PM
Hi Larry
An excellent capture, great sense of movement and action, technically a super composition.
Personally I don't mind either orientation of the birds, it works the same for me each way.
The whites are a bit blown out, but that has been discussed in other posts.
I like the 2nd bird in the frame, despite in being out of focus. Not a lot you can do about that except shoot as f64 (!) or clone in a new bird from another photo.
cheers
Sean
Posted by Craig Nash on November 8, 2006 at 1:59 PM
Fascinating the flipped image works alot better for me as well.
Discussion
11 repliesOur eye is taken from the in-focus leader to the oof follower then its left stranded,
No real focus point for our eye to rest easy on.
John
Flip it L/R, it will make a difference to western people, but may not make the shot.
T
Trying to reason why... there is nothing for the eye to gauge depth with - especially as you have a monocolour background - and this leaves the brain-cells continuously trying to place the oof bird in front of or behind the focused bird. It may also have helped ahd the oof bird mirrored the other birds posture - it has a slightly unelegant look to it.
An explination is that, its the way you read therefore the natural progression of looking in western society.
Western people find it unnatural to follow a sign/picture right to left, so the most focal point of a picture (if there is more than one focal point) should always be on the LHS. This is most important with panos - take the "Old Bulls" post of mine and flip it so the eye is on the right - it feels uncomfortable, well its does to me
With respect to the above, my eye now naturally comes to a stop on the lead pintails head/eye.
T
Thanks for that Tom, will remember that in future, I never think to flip my images
John
It does work for me in the flipped version.
Rob
An excellent capture, great sense of movement and action, technically a super composition.
Personally I don't mind either orientation of the birds, it works the same for me each way.
The whites are a bit blown out, but that has been discussed in other posts.
I like the 2nd bird in the frame, despite in being out of focus. Not a lot you can do about that except shoot as f64 (!) or clone in a new bird from another photo.
cheers
Sean