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RE: Photo contest: post processing #18 | Minimalism
I see it the same way, but in my eyes, the line to perfection already is crossed (maybe only with one step). A little less symmetry would give the picture more vividness. Or in other words: the lines of the floor and walls give a system of coordinates, but the chair seems not to be inside this system, it seems not to notice its environment.
A certain paradox always arouses interest. At first glance, this photo claims geometric accuracy in its compositional solution, and if this were really the case, it would be possible to immediately turn the page of the furniture catalog and start viewing photos of other chairs. After all, we are looking for a chair? :) But my attention here stops at the black vertical line on the back of the chair, because only this detail corresponds to the central axis of the frame, although others claim this position, slightly not reaching the axis. And the gaze begins to wander through the characteristic points in search of other inconsistencies. The game starts and it makes the photo live.
And we forget that we were going to buy a chair and just start enjoying textures, color relations, thinking about photography and the master who made it. This is the essence of "artistry", so it seems to me. But at the same time, the picture can also serve the purposes of the genre in which it is defined.
By far not enough for me.