"Jim Charter" <jrc### [at] msncom> schreef in bericht
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> The whole thing came about because I needed to do something with the far
> side of the pond.  I felt there needed to be some sort of wall or riser
> there, just behind that featured topiary, precisely to give the eye a
> reference point and to help profile the point where the topiary is
> supported. Having a hill just recede away into the background along with
> the converging lines of the surrounding walkway seemed unsatisfying.
> Once I put the riser there, the need to have it extend into the hill,
> somehow, was inevitable.  I kind of liked the stairs sweeping down and
> ending at the all important toe touch.  But in the general case it is
> well known that such convergences of lines in a picture are bad
> compositionally. precisely because they interrupt the sense of
> overlapping perspective.  The least I can do is rotate the stairs around
> the pond to the right some more or change the camera angle.  Actually,
> in my mind the wall was higher, but I wanted that sort of golf links
> look too, with fixtures extending into the distance on a rolling green.
>   Maybe I want too much
>
Not easy. Try something with the camera, yes, that might help... In
addition, have you considered to delete altogether that part to the right
that branches off the pathway, just leaving it to sweep to the left and -
eventually -  out of view?

> >
> >
> > That is very good work, Jim. I believe that this may get people
interested
> > in shoes you know! Quintessential, really.
> >
> >
> Thankyou.  I believe there is a *lot* of latency involved with shoes.
> If you look closely you may notice that I showed you the "selected"
> menu.  Inquiring minds may wonder what would be on the plain vanilla menu
;)

Yes, that's right! More shoes?? (I tried to peek, but was frustrated... :-))

Thomas

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