{"id":93981,"date":"2016-08-30T16:04:27","date_gmt":"2016-08-30T15:04:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amateurphotographer.co.uk\/?p=93981"},"modified":"2016-08-30T16:07:22","modified_gmt":"2016-08-30T15:07:22","slug":"photo-appraisal-lake-dawn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/other.kelsey.host\/amateurphotographer\/technique\/photo_appraisals\/photo-appraisal-lake-dawn\/","title":{"rendered":"Photo appraisal: Lake at Dawn"},"content":{"rendered":"

Photo: Lake at Dawn<\/h2>\n

Taken by: Amri Arfianto<\/h2>\n

Fujifilm X-T1, 10-24mm, 28secs at f\/22, ISO 200<\/strong><\/p>\n\"amri-arfianto\"<\/a>\n

We don\u2019t think twice about accepting fiction in art forms such as painting, films and writing, but when it comes to photography, many of us expect some sort of truth. Photography can be truth, and it is very good at it, but it can also be a dreamy romanticism of reality or a blatant fabrication of events. Truth, \u2018enhanced\u2019 truth or untruth \u2013 it doesn\u2019t really matter, so long as we understand the status of what we are looking at and the photographer isn\u2019t actively lying to the audience.<\/p>\n

Amri\u2019s picture is, I suspect, a version of the truth that has rather more colour than could be seen by the naked eye. However, nature is genuinely wondrous, and as such it is difficult for any of us who weren\u2019t at this place at the same time of day and year as Amri to know whether the scene could have looked like this or not. If the scene did look this way, the challenge is to convince people that what \u2028they are assuming to be a fabrication is actually just an amazing display of nature.<\/p>\n

Either way, this is an effective picture, and the colours, whether true or not, certainly grab the attention. What spoils it for me, though, is that the lead-in lines from the bottom corners take us into the centre of the frame, where there is a tree that disappears into the mountains on the opposite bank. Amri leads us to something, but won\u2019t show us what it is when we get there.<\/p>\n

This is a difficult situation and from the comfort of my desk it is easy for me to identify that had Amri had the presence of mind to take his stepladder with him that morning, a higher angle would have allowed all the branches to be silhouetted against the water. With that extra height, there would have been some separation between the tree and the mountains, so it would have stood out.<\/p>\n

The dramatic colours are very nice and all very well, but the picture is missing its subject.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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