Postby Walter Glover » 17 Sep 2012, 09:27
Well spotted Maris,
As a rule I do tend towards the formal and geometric - and especially in this case where I am hoping to make a series on verandahs and fretwork.
I shot from the pavement opposite with a 210mm and Alastair shot from the roadway with a 150mm in a choreography of avoiding passing cars.
We'd met up and went for a drive though the cramped suburban streets of Kirribilli in quest of a motif. We saw this and I thought, 'I'll have a play". We parked a block away and on the way I saw the white façade with the stair well. All a bit of fun.
Alastair's pic is highly commendable - especially in view of him risking life and limb and show a number of differences in additions to the aligned vs unaligned viewpoint.
I have gone for a brighter rendering over all to try and maintain the glare and intensity of the lattice whereas he has taken it sort of a Zone down. And I have opened up the shadows a Zone or two more, again to capture a sense of glowing afternoon light.
In my mind the key thing here is that two guys can shoot within feet of each other at roughly the same time of day and each put their individual stamp, or vision, on a scene.
It can't get much better than that, can it?
Walter Glover
"We see things not as they are. We see them as we are."
— Emanuel Kant