Medieval street - Rhodes

[olorin]

[aprilS]

I'm quite taken with the ominous shadow, who seems to be following children down a darkening street. That impression is reinforced, for me, by the near focus on the leading line of cobblestones.

I only wish everyone was facing/moving away from the camera, but that's in keeping with my storyline and perhaps not yours.

[eob]

Contrary to the popular belief, art photography does acknowledge and even thrives on such a thing as logic - logic of lighting, logic of form, logic of line, color, perspective, etc. In my personal view, this image would work best - no less than on several levels - if you have extended the focus from the first to the last plane (or just slightly defocused people). That way, you would have achieved a nice street scene, as well as captured an intriguing pattern of the medieval street. The viewer would have been presented with the choice of putting their preference on either the human interest in this image, or purely visual play of perspective and graphic look of the stone. No authenticity would be lost, but the image would gain a lot of logic.

I understand that you were after the intricate pattern in the cobblestone, but you also included a group of people at the end of the divider line. That line guides my eye straight into the group of people, leading me to believe that they are the main subject of this photo. Why, then, make them defocused? On the other hand, if your intended main subject has been (literally) the medieval cobblestone street, the defocused group of people placed at the vanishing point of perspective is just a distraction. And why make only a shallow portion of the street in-focus? I think that the whole street scene would make stronger impact than just a limited area of the cobblestone.

What do you think?

[Theo]

I agree with eob the people becoming a distraction from the over all scene. One other thing that i would like to chime in on is the lack of a horizontal horizon it makes me think that its a mistake if your going to angle it make it look like its not a mistake and that it was deliberate.