Marble Hill at night - # 08/190
I showed Marble Hill in full sunlight about 9 months ago. This recent (sun-down) night shot does it full justice and shows the excellent work of the lighting experts who have managed to display it so well. The house sits beside the Thames. (On reflection I should have cropped out some of the dark lawn - but even so it's a nice view of the house).
Actually, I never noticed all the dark lawn until I read your narrative about cropping out part of it. So it must not be something that grabs people. I think it looks ok but on reflection I wonder how much different it would be with most of that lawn cropped out?
ReplyDeleteAs it is, the building is really nice.
Nice view is an understatement. This is really a great photo. What a beautiful building and the lighting along with the dark areas is just captivating.
ReplyDeletei absolutely agree with Abraham that cropping the lawn didn't occur to me, until I read your words. Then it made sense but then the proportions of the photo might not have worked - as it is this gorgeous house is nicely framed in 'dark' to show off that magical light and sky.
ReplyDeleteI quite often leave more than necessary of the silhoutted trees and foliage in an image. It can really draw your eye to the main event, such as this marvellous white house and wonderful light.
ReplyDeleteNormally I would have said: crop, but here it makes a different picture not to do it. It makes the house look even lighter in that 'dangerous' surrounding.
ReplyDeleteInteresting twilight atmosphere. Agree with April about the cropping. I don't think there are any hard and fast rules about cropping large areas of foreground. Here for example it helps with the splendid isolation of the house. However in your recent example in the woods it is a very horizontal composition, we scan across that area through the foreground of trees and the foreground distracts. Just my thoughts
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