Well, nuthin too special here...., another from my trip to Bali. This was taken in the "Moneky Forest'. Doesnt really belong here, but ahh well - the other forums are pretty slow....Comments are very welcome - help me with the Do's and Dont's
An intriguing and slightly eerie shot Rob , but I like the composition , colours and texture a great deal . I have always regretted not getting to Bali when I lived near there many years ago ; I particularly like that touch of red blossom on the bottom step -- it adds an extra charm out of all proportion to its relative size . Any more from this fascinating place ?
It was a very beautiful place....Lots of photographic opportunities, but unforunately the friend I was travelling kinda spoiled that for me. A few are posted on my website - www.robtitley.com, feel free to check them out. Comment on the website are welcome too!!!
Yeah, I am lucky. I'm teaching English in Korea right now - so places like that are relatively close. In February I'm heading to China, Vietnam, Cambodia, and Thialand for 6-8 weeks..... CAN'T WAIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I'm not sure why you included the left strip of leaves in the picture though - they seem to be distracting and make the picture "unbalanced". When you have two main subjects (3 actually, if you count the stairs between the two structures) that are equally sized, it might be better to maintain compositional symmetry in the picture so as not to detract from these main subjects.
I like the angle at which you took this shot - the stairs and the red blossom are intriuging - where does the stairs lead to? why is there a red blossom on the stairs? Questions like this give the audience good moments to think about, which gives a picture some "soul".
If space and time were permissable, I would have liked to see a telephoto-compressed shots of the two statues packed closely together; also, a wide-angle shot from ground-level at this angle to emphasize/exaggerate one of the statues more than the other. These statues are intriuging subjects, so you might want to spend more time exploring the compositional aspects to try and capture them better.
