Sunday, February 17, 2008

I'll have to go back real quick and check but I don't think I've gone off, yet, about how people seem to be afraid of negative space. Not every inch of a photograph or drawing or ... whatever... needs to be filled with something. And the subject doesn't need to be centered or perfectly distributed throughout the frame. I framed this picture just as it is on purpose when I shot it. I like it like this. I suppose I could tilt it a little since what I was aiming for was to have the top of his head run parallel with the top of the frame. I like this photo just how it is. The subject is all up in one corner and 2/3 of the picture is nothing but a sea of noise (well... mulch... but mulch is noisy in visual terms) and I still think it's perfect. I am floored by how huggably fierce a plastic dinosaur can look. His facial expression is rather vague. I don't know what emotion he is feeling but I know he is feeling AN emotion. I guess that's enough. How much pressure can you put on an inanimate object to emote?

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