Trees in Courts

[Gunderground]

Hmmm?

 

[JonMikal]

what are you trying to convey in this image? what do you like or dislike about it?

 

[terri]

I'm wondering the same thing.

Tell us about your process here, Gunderground. Can't offer critique without it!

 

[Gunderground]

It's a tennis court with water on it with the reflection of the sun and trees in it. Then I flipped it digitally.

The only reason I usually take pictures is because they are aesthetically pleasing to my eye, and because they are things not captured in a normal manner(abstract).

I can't say I dislike anything about this particular photo, but I was looking for other people's opinions besides my own.

 

[Nikon Fan]

I get it a little better now, but I don't understand the need for the flip. It's hard to figure as it is, and may make more since the other way...

 

[themonko]

i'm getting dizzy looking at this one...

It almost looks like a double exposure, but isn't. Until you explained what it was, I had no idea, but after the explaination, it does spark a little interest.

 

[LaFoto]

With your explanation this photo is beginning to appeal to me!
I have just finished doing my "visit-the-TPF-gymnastics" of this morning (and no one took a photo of me doing that, thankfully! ) and looked at it in the "normal way" (is such a position that I took up normal??? :scratch: ) ... and now I am beginning to understand what I see.

And now I am beginning to LIKE what I see.

I am all for the flipped version, I think it's a cool idea to turn the reflections around and make them seem "the right way", not upside down. It made me look once, twice ... several times.

Without your explanation, though, I might have looked at it once, thought "weird" and gone to the next...

 

[thebeginning]

wooooow very interesting!! i would also like to see it flipped, but i like it as it is for the real thing. this is a VERY abstract photo, which makes it difficult to critique. since it is flipped, the trees seem right-side up, making it all the more confusing to the eye (which is a good thing for these types of shots!). the more i look at this, the more i like it. that is, if you meant for it to be abstract

 

[Unimaxium]

I think it would be more understandable (as to what this is a shot of) if you included the edges of the puddle if possible. Then I think it would be easier to tell that it's a puddle and that the trees are a reflection. My first reaction to the shot was that I thought that it was a double-exposure of some sort.

 

[Gunderground]

Thanks for the feedback. I think what I need to improve on is explaining what it is people are looking at when displaying my abstract photos.