Comments on: Exotic 10 http://www.foundobjectsgallery.com/bartender/2007/08/30/exotic-10-2/ a photography journal Sun, 20 Jul 2008 10:22:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Ed Nixon http://www.foundobjectsgallery.com/bartender/2007/08/30/exotic-10-2/#comment-56 Ed Nixon Thu, 30 Aug 2007 13:26:48 +0000 http://www.foundobjectsgallery.com/bartender/2007/08/30/exotic-10-2/#comment-56 What I like about this one is the symmetry which then translates into a sense of relaxed confidence. I could envisage a series consisting of the same component layout and / or simple geometric, vertical, horizontal transformations. That structure would in turn contain the 'variations' based on whatever inner discipline you're using, e.g., 4 images from the (more or less) physical location. The creation of overall line through inter-image connects seems to me to be distractingly arbitrary and, in the context of an extended series, should probably be an occasional, sparely used surprise -- small smile, sense of guilty comfort, etc. engendered. ...edN PS: I think there should be a small, exterior border in either black or the deeper gray of the background; same grey should separate individual components. This, for web display. For print? Probably paper surface is enough, but you could experiment with similar effects. Depends on size and context, I guess. What I like about this one is the symmetry which then translates into a sense of relaxed confidence. I could envisage a series consisting of the same component layout and / or simple geometric, vertical, horizontal transformations. That structure would in turn contain the ‘variations’ based on whatever inner discipline you’re using, e.g., 4 images from the (more or less) physical location. The creation of overall line through inter-image connects seems to me to be distractingly arbitrary and, in the context of an extended series, should probably be an occasional, sparely used surprise — small smile, sense of guilty comfort, etc. engendered.

…edN

PS: I think there should be a small, exterior border in either black or the deeper gray of the background; same grey should separate individual components. This, for web display. For print? Probably paper surface is enough, but you could experiment with similar effects. Depends on size and context, I guess.

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