Tour du Midi

Dikkie · Nov 10, 2012

This is the Midi Tower.

My wife says this photo would be better if the whole tower is framed, but I'm not 100% sure about that, yet.

A photograph can be interesting if not everything is visible, in this case you can imagine what the rest of the building would look like, or how high it would be in real life.
Same for portraits, when not all parts of the body are in the picture. It gives you a space for thought.

But maybe I'm going for a 'revisited-edition' for this one, later on when I have some spare time.
What is your thought on this?

Frequency · Nov 10, 2012

I really like the image; actually this image's strong point is not the building, but the triple street light. Building just gives a fine background for it. So it is not a big problem that the top of the building is missing

Regards

Designer · Nov 10, 2012

Not to take sides, but you're right. This is not architectural photography, but is a street scene.

I like it. There is good artistic balance, human scale, and the well-known building anchors the scene in space.

You can further irritate your wife by hanging a print of this on a wall.

Dikkie · Nov 10, 2012

And it was with a mini tripod, from 5cm from the ground, so I couldn't see through the viewfinder what I actually was pointing to

Actually a kind of 'lucky shot'. I didn't photoshop it much, just auto corrected the perspectives with this free software: ShiftN

panblue · Nov 10, 2012

Dikkie said:
This is the Midi Tower.

My wife says this photo would be better if the whole tower is framed, but I'm not 100% sure about that, yet.

A photograph can be interesting if not everything is visible, in this case you can imagine what the rest of the building would look like, or how high it would be in real life.
Same for portraits, when not all parts of the body are in the picture. It gives you a space for thought.

But maybe I'm going for a 'revisited-edition' for this one, later on when I have some spare time.
What is your thought on this?

I like it and i agree with both your choice to shoot level (avoiding converging lines without the use of a PC lens) and also the choice to exclude the full height to keep that 'unknown'. This is something I use in cropping images quite often.