Another introduction to the photo world (like so many before)

[Frank Fremerey]

A group shot planet (Original is 10.000 x 10.000 or more):

[Thomas Stellwag]

Frank it makes me nervous looking at it, for me it is too jagged
maybe with another background colour it would be better
the peoples clothes colours would probbably smoothen the view,
if there was a consistency in pattern, but even the same
people mixed left and right
which function has the black hole in the middle?

[Frank Fremerey]

Thank you, Thomas:

The "Black hole" is the tripod. It serves no particular purpose. I could retouch it or place a logo there. But as I need it to take the picture, why not leave the tripod there?

I read your words but I do not understand: What about the clothes and the positions?

Thank you again. Frank

[Thomas Stellwag]

I read your words but I do not understand: What about the clothes and the positions?

maybe i am wrong, my thinking is that in such a unusual perspective the eye needs an ancor, from where to scan the image
you have very high differences in building hight, and then the same people arranged in statistic way
My thought is, that bringing a symmetry to the picture, by arranging green and white parkas as a repeating pattern, will help to read the rest of the picture

[Frank Fremerey]

Thank you. Now I understand. The building heights I can change though and I have another version with the church as the center piece.


Here the colors are more damped and the sane as a planet with even building heights:

[armando_m]

first image makes me feel that I'll fall off

second one is also nice I like the little kid standing right in the center