I can see how it could be confusing. The leaking tank in the right most frame is for rain water collection. It's about 4' high on a 1' plinth.
The shot on the left is the downpipe from the roof guttering over the top of the tank which supplies the rain water. :-) So the sequence is correct, rain filling a tank, tank leaking the rain. :-) Cheers, Dave On Sat, Apr 5, 2008 at 9:26 PM, Anthony Farr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dave, > > The teacher of photographic composition in my third year of photography > school told a story that is apt for your diptych. He took a locally > successful exhibition to China in the '70s, but at its first showing it got > a disappointing reception. Upon investigation he found that the pictures > didn't "flow" to Chinese eyes. What he realized was that principles of > movement in composition are highly connected to the written language of the > viewer. So occidental eyes prefer top to bottom and left to right movement > (or sequence) in pictures. Oriental eyes want movement (or sequence)that > goes right to left and bottom to top. He reprinted the show with the > negatives flipped and got a better response. > > The sequence of your pic seems to put the ground level drain on the left > before the higher leaky barrel? pipe? or whatever which is on the right, > therefore later in the narrative. But that object was placed higher in > space, leading to the discomforting conclusion that water has flowed > upwards. > > Flip the picture yourself and see what you think. There will still be the > disparity of a high level object and a ground level object being placed > side-by-side on the same viewing level, but at least the narrative will flow > (pardon the pun) in a natural sequence to Western eyes. > > Regards, > Anthony Farr > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > > David Savage > > > Sent: Saturday, 5 April 2008 3:59 PM > > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List > > Subject: PESO: The rains are here > > > > > > G'day All, > > > > Earlier Godfrey posted his triptych, it just so happens I've recently > > put together a diptych (~170kb) > > > > <http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2155/2388391017_c0979d55ce_o.jpg> > > > > Left image K20D, DA 10-17mm f3.5-4.5 FE @ 17mm, 1/180 @ f4.5, ISO 1600 > > (-w- built in flash) > > Right image K20D, FA* 300mm f4, 1/320 @ f4.5, ISO 1600 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
