TAKE YOUR PICK

[mikeaspinall]

Hi everybody

A picture from our recent visit to Jersey for your perusal. All comments welcome but in particular
is it Colour or Mono for you?

[Walter Brooks]

Mono for me Mike, with a tighter, square or 6x7 crop.
Regards

W.

[John]

Totally agree with Walter.

[Tracey McGovern]

Yes - I think the mono version has more impact.

[Phil Jones]

Hi Mike.
I'm going to buck the trend & say I prefer the colour version. Maybe it's my eyesight or my monitor, but colour seems to bring out the textures slightly more than the mono.
Regards,

Phil.

[Paul Jones]

Colour.

Though I would have preferred if the horizon line wasn't cutting through the top of the lighthouse.

[Janice Freeman]

Colour for me as well. I like the drama of the B & W, but also like the touch of serenity that the colour adds to a rugged scene.
I never know what to do with horizon lines in such a situation. What would you have done please Paul? Anybody else want to comment/advise on that aspect?

Jan

[Walter Brooks]

Difficult to say Janice. It would all depend on the elements in the scene and how I want to portray them. Sky lines in landscapes are similar, the perceived wisdom on that is not to break the sky line, something a bit difficult with a seascape without say in Mike's image, it looking like it's going to be engulfed by a wall of sea ... so here I would drop the horizon a little but then that changes the dynamic in the elements in the scene. Don't know the lay of the land where the shot was taken, but a move to the right and down may have brought in some coastline in the background to help break up the horizon line ... as I say, it's that combination of what is there in front of you and how you want to represent what you 'see'.
Regards

W.

[Paul Jones]

I never know what to do with horizon lines in such a situation. What would you have done please Paul?

Crouched down to frame the shot with the lighthouse above the horizon line.

(Note - I'm not knocking Mike's shot. Just that the horizon line bugged me a litle.)

[Janice Freeman]

OK thanks guys, all these little tips really help.

Jan