Beach red - edits

Here is another setting I chose to shoot the red shelving unit. So far the project could be a continuation with this object in different scenarios across different settings; we shall wait and see. 

The setting is again, fairly plain - what I was planning. Being a hazy day helped with the contrast between blander setting and brighter object. 

I think I overly prefer the images where the shelf is further away in frame. The sense of space is more apparent, we can compare the objects size with the scale of the area, but this can also be an illusion down to the simplicity of the objects shape and the simplicity of the background. 

Over the course of the day the breeze would occasionally blow over the shelf, but seeing this narrow rectangular shape briefly hang diagonally looked ever so strange to me. The diagonal tangent contrasts heavily against the horizontal lines of the landscape. After showing a few peers this image they remarked that it is an image that would drive OCD sufferers crazy, not being perfectly perpendicular with the landscape. Comparing this image with the above, the first image almost becomes satisfying after seeing the imperfect diagonal. 

The ending result, of course, is this. Together the three could work as a small series, or tryptic, on their own. But the ending image also led me to see that the rectangle doesn't always need to be upright to cast a strange appearance. 

I also thought it best to continue photographing my partner setting up. The below image shows himself picking up the shelf after many times it blowing over, but here his body and the object create a triangle, a new shape all together. It's a curious image with much contrast within the frame: bland landscape, bright/surreal object and this dark figure obviously in-charge of this object. 

I tried for a slightly busier setting. A forest is slightly "mystical", so the object placed here becomes, perhaps, an obelisk of some sort? 

Landscape and portrait shots in comparison: Portrait has the opportunity to exploit the grandness of the trees in contrast with this, now shrinking, red plank. Whereas the landscape has the opportunity to include more trees (shapes) in frame. So we have more objects in frame to surround/outnumber our shelf. Personally, the landscape is more effective for that reason. The composition works better, the background is evenly halfed - straw/grass 50% bottom half and trees/trunks 50% top half, with the red shelf placed centre to it all. 

Still continuing shooting my partner assisting. He adds a sense of scale to the images, but more importantly he adds a sense of curiousness also. Putting the images of him together in a series, it becomes even more curious - we ask who on Earth is this person carrying around this object? I don't think the question need be answered, the images don't exactly answer any questions but they make an interesting series on their own.