Form, Color, Texture

[Bob Rogers]

This is a triptych. Do you think the photos are an accurate reflection of the title, and how well do you think they work as a group? The print is 15x36 inches (380x91mm). The jpg is sized to fit a 1080 monitor - on a smaller screen most browsers let one zoom by using <ctrl> -

All three photos were taken in the Harry Leu Gardens in Orlando, Florida recently. It's an excellent place to visit if you like plants


Form, Color, Texture
Bob Rogers

 

[Paul Abbott]

Oooh with those two B&W shots you are reminding me of someone...

Personally, I think you could make some 1:1 crops of the two B&W shots, I know where i'd crop them because my attention is mainly on the left hand side of these shots. In doing that the far right image may enforce your 'texture' part of the title too...

With respect, the colour image doesn't work for me, it's not very well composed and is letting the side down, or should I say 'middle'...

 

[Bob Rogers]

Thanks for looking Paul.

Is this what you had in mind? I think it's better.

 

[Paul Abbott]

Yeah Bob, that looks better to me. This is something well worth doing. Is it possible to shoot something more colourful and photogenic for the centre piece? I'd shoot or crop that to square also.
I wonder if a semi macro shot would work of some colourful leaves or flowers?

Anyway, it's just my two sleung, Bob...but your going to have a real nice triptych happening here...

 

[Bob Rogers]

Thanks Paul! I have a few other color shots, but no macro. I really like how big and bold this one is though.

I like it a lot better with the larger, square crops. It's even better in the print than on the screen. I'm thinking it might even be better at a larger size, like 18x42.

 

[Jerome Marot]

Since you are asking: I would not crop the B&W pictures which are nice compositions as they are. I would certainly not arrange the three pictures on different levels as in the first post. I would also try to find another center picture, it is the weakest of the three. I see the point with the color, but maybe you should try to move much closer in.

 

[Asher Kelman]

This is a triptych. Do you think the photos are an accurate reflection of the title, and how well do you think they work as a group? The print is 15x36 inches (380x91mm). The jpg is sized to fit a 1080 monitor - on a smaller screen most browsers let one zoom by using <ctrl> -

All three photos were taken in the Harry Leu Gardens in Orlando, Florida recently. It's an excellent place to visit if you like plants

Bob,

The first and second pictures have some commonality in gross form. I'd start with the second image as it is cut at the left and leads one to the right. The 3rd one escapes me as to how it fits in, so I'd hold that in reserve and perhaps add it in some way to make the other B&W image wider.

I'd combine the red, (or it's replacement as Jerome suggested), with a longer single black and white composite, (of your first B&W photograph), so you'd have the effect of the content of two, but just a black square and then a double width B&W rectangle with the overall shape of the red leaves in the first translated and expanded in the adjacent second picture.

If you can simplify in this way, you could really get a lot of satisfaction by your brave experiment!

Asher

 

[Maggie Terlecki]

I, like others, have certain reservations about the middle and the last image. I find the last one very busy and its direction towards the right pulls my eye right out of the triptych. As for the color one, it is unbalanced .
I do think though that if you absolutely want to use these, the middle flower could be cropped to balance it out, and the one on the right could not only be cropped to eliminate background clutter, but flipped to bring the eye back inside towards the color and form.

This is just a suggestion, to take or leave
Maggie

 

[Martin Stephens]

I would work to find the essential subject in each photo and hone in on that. It wasn't clear to me what to consider the subject in the two B&W photos. In the color one, it is clear, but is out of balance.