Re-Framing: Ben Goossens

Re-framed

Original

The Review:
This Ben Goossen piece is very interesting in its completeness. It eludes many visual cues, dealing with rule of thirds, and visual movement and rhythm. How ever when I when to re-frame this particular image I found that a Close Up on the girl in the foreground give the most visual intensity and interest while still retaining an affinity to the original. In the original each point of interest falls within the rule of thirds, when the image is divided up, the girl the tunnel, the closest girl’s face, eyes, and mouth all fall on these lines. This also holds true for my re-cut image. The visual movement of the original image is more active than mine, in that the three women hint at a forward motion, because the small women is in the back in a dark tunnel while gradually getting bigger till all you can see is a large head of what looks, like an identical women in the front. This movement and rhythm this increased with the path below them and the lines that each of them make as they move forward. My photo on the other had is very static and has not motion, actual it looks as if the women could be posing. This re-framing takes away the background, which gave the women motion and movement, unlike in the other image where it looks as if she is going to move right out of frame. In think that my re-framing gives a little more of a visual intensity by focusing the eye on thinks that normally are over looked when smothered by background. Like the eyes and the lines that are created from them, the color and shapes pronounce the interest that is upon her face. With that said both images are very much the same in affinity and subtext. Both images elude the same somber feeling, the overcasty grays and melancholy presence on the faces of the women all harkens back to the same solemn tone.