Derrel
Mr. Rain Cloud
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YES--MUCH,much better er111a. In this photo you are using repetition, like you did in the prior effort. However, as one learns in design classes, excessive repetition is the enemy of good,solid fundamental design. Your prior effort had four separate frames, slapped together, with different colors on each, which caused excessive dissonance; dissonance is another design principle that a composer or photographer can use to advantage; too much dissonance, as in four separate colored blocks, was causing a mess in the original effort. In this shot, you use the same idea, repetition of the same image and shapes, but you eliminate the excessive, garish,jarring lemme-duplicate this-then-try four-different-colors-just-for-the-hell-of-it-and-let's-see-if-it-sticks and instead go with the idea of REPETITION in moderation.
By arranging the four images in the way you did here, you've created a clever diamond-shape within a square composition, and there is repetition and symmetry, within a single color palette. THIS EFFORT uses sound,proven elements and principles of design,and is an example of how to use the elements and principles of design for a PURPOSE, and with some skill. THIS shot is good...the earlier effort was crappy. Here, you've created something worthwhile,and not a gaudy, let-me-experiment-and-hope-for-something-to-stick monstrosity.
The elements and principles of design and composition is something one will learn at university fine arts classes. That's where I learned this stuff. Contrast this C&C with the one cloudywind gave you on the original try...he thought there was something there, but you needed to re-do the entire thing...which you did. Props to you.
By arranging the four images in the way you did here, you've created a clever diamond-shape within a square composition, and there is repetition and symmetry, within a single color palette. THIS EFFORT uses sound,proven elements and principles of design,and is an example of how to use the elements and principles of design for a PURPOSE, and with some skill. THIS shot is good...the earlier effort was crappy. Here, you've created something worthwhile,and not a gaudy, let-me-experiment-and-hope-for-something-to-stick monstrosity.
The elements and principles of design and composition is something one will learn at university fine arts classes. That's where I learned this stuff. Contrast this C&C with the one cloudywind gave you on the original try...he thought there was something there, but you needed to re-do the entire thing...which you did. Props to you.