The photographer is looking for generalized feedback about the aesthetic and technical qualities of their image.
Description
Waves and wind, a breeze rather, played together to create this checkerboard pattern, that was almost perfectly regular. Another approach, in my view, of this week’s challenge. (And in the nick of time, before you change it…)
Specific Feedback
This picture voluntarily lacks a strong focus point. Does it need one? Not in my eyes, evidently. But what about yours?
I love studying and photographing water surfaces and I am enjoying this one very much.
Interesting you ask about a focus point. IMHO, and in this particular image, I say no. And here’s why. Are you familiar of those images you often see on social media, or back inthe day, in print media, where there’s a fuzzy abstract, or image with repeating patterns… and the viewer is asked to stare at the image for a bit, and then some secondary image appears? Well anyway, I’m finding myself gazing at this, attempting to lose focus in hopes of finding some hinden image or message. Alas, I don’t find one. But it’s the very thought there is no central focal point that the mind can wander and not focus… allowing the mind to find something else. Hope I’m making sense. Anyway, I like the image for it’s abstract makings.
Now I’m pretty sure this is a straight shot and the criss-crossing patterns come from the breeze - as you stated. This is not a double-exposure or some camera blur; just a straight shot.
I like it, Xavier. For me, an abstract doesn’t have to have a focal point. I think it all depends on the photographer’s intention. If a focal point forms in an abstract not intended to have a focal point, it can be distracting. If there is an intended focal point, and we don’t recognize it, that can be an issue. But when the intention and the effect meet like this, it’s wonderful.
I like the combination of calm here (no drama) and energy (diagonals and diamond shapes and tonal variation from foreground to background). To me, it all works.
