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 p.1 #6 · Henry Moore at the NYBG | |
It's difficult to make interesting photographs of sculpture in a garden. Most ordinary views, the kind anyone can take as a snapshot without laying in the grass or climbing a tree, usually seem ho hum. Snap shots may accurately depict a piece of sculpture, but they are at best "record" shots. If you are reporting on a new exhibition in a park, then reportage shots are appropriate. If you want to say something about the sculpture, then you need to find your own special vision of what you see and go beyond an ordinary snapshot style. Naturally, having suggested this, someone may pipe in with "What if you want to express an Aunt Millie snapshot style as your message?" I leave that as an exercise for the reader to ponder.
Of the first pair I prefer the second, but the composition is weak to my taste. To the extent it works for me, it's because the sculpture provides a supporting background. With the flowers as the message, saying perhaps "mother nature's beauty exceeds the works of man", it would be an easier message to sell if the flowers were a larger part of the image.
The second shot of the second pair is moderately more interesting to me because it wasn't quite a typical static snapshot. The trees in the background however were distracting and would have been better out of focus. The second shot of the second pair shot was interesting to me because you selected an interesting shape. However, again the pine trees in the background detract from the abstract shape to my eyes. A wider aperture to throw the branches out of focus might have helped.
As always, consider my comments in the light of what you paid for them. 
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