This vertical photograph depicts a pair of dark brown leather, scuffed, dirty work boots placed in a light-medium brown, slightly muddy, graded field. Further afield are heavy equipment vehicles, orange and white, that travels across the width of the photo; a mound with weeds or grass growing from it on the right; some trees, again on the right; and a patch of grey sky in the far background, primarily to the left of the photo. From the grass, up to the trees, equipment, and sky only encompasses about one quarter of the photo—the rest consists of the boots and mud field they sit in.
The over-the-ankle boots, with worn, light leather laces, are facing forward, oriented from an 11:00 to 5:00 position. They have back soles. The boot to the observer’s right is scuffed on the toe, and its tongue protrudes slightly more than the boot to the left. The laces are laced through the eyelets from the toe to the place where the boot elbows to begin covering the ankle. At that point the boots are unlaced, leaving a long tangle of laces aside and around each boot, but primarily to the front of the left boot.
The photograph was shot with a short depth of field so that the viewer’s eyes are focused on the boots rather than the background. The light is not strong and the brown colors are rich, suggesting that not only the far horizon was cloudy, but the whole area. Although out of focus, the relatively bright orange color of the truck, the green color of the grass, and the sky in the background pull the viewer’s eye backward. The boots’ height accounts for 60 percent of the photo, but the field on which they sit and traveling between the boots and equipment, grass, and sky provides a great sense of depth. The photograph has nice texture, although perhaps more grain from higher ISO would have added a rough-hewn look (although to add ISO, the photographer might not have been able to maintain the effective depth of field). The vertical shot works here because the focus of the photo, the boots, are also vertical; the background works well in the horizontal. The focus on the boots is sharp; the toe of the left boot appears slightly out of focus because of the depth of field, but this adds to rather than detracts from the effectiveness of the shot.
Cool shot, everything in it fits.
ReplyDeleteThis vertical photograph depicts a pair of dark brown leather, scuffed, dirty work boots placed in a light-medium brown, slightly muddy, graded field. Further afield are heavy equipment vehicles, orange and white, that travels across the width of the photo; a mound with weeds or grass growing from it on the right; some trees, again on the right; and a patch of grey sky in the far background, primarily to the left of the photo. From the grass, up to the trees, equipment, and sky only encompasses about one quarter of the photo—the rest consists of the boots and mud field they sit in.
The over-the-ankle boots, with worn, light leather laces, are facing forward, oriented from an 11:00 to 5:00 position. They have back soles. The boot to the observer’s right is scuffed on the toe, and its tongue protrudes slightly more than the boot to the left. The laces are laced through the eyelets from the toe to the place where the boot elbows to begin covering the ankle. At that point the boots are unlaced, leaving a long tangle of laces aside and around each boot, but primarily to the front of the left boot.
The photograph was shot with a short depth of field so that the viewer’s eyes are focused on the boots rather than the background. The light is not strong and the brown colors are rich, suggesting that not only the far horizon was cloudy, but the whole area. Although out of focus, the relatively bright orange color of the truck, the green color of the grass, and the sky in the background pull the viewer’s eye backward. The boots’ height accounts for 60 percent of the photo, but the field on which they sit and traveling between the boots and equipment, grass, and sky provides a great sense of depth. The photograph has nice texture, although perhaps more grain from higher ISO would have added a rough-hewn look (although to add ISO, the photographer might not have been able to maintain the effective depth of field). The vertical shot works here because the focus of the photo, the boots, are also vertical; the background works well in the horizontal. The focus on the boots is sharp; the toe of the left boot appears slightly out of focus because of the depth of field, but this adds to rather than detracts from the effectiveness of the shot.