Patong Beach, Thailand, Sunset

[mikemyers]

@mwsilvers

Based on your desire for simplification I reworked your image called Patong Beach, Thailand, Sunset.

Since titles seem the be one of the main things that drives the content of an image for you, I followed your lead and took the liberty to fix your image by removing all the busy details not directly related to the title. To paraphrase your earlier comment, when you look at your original version there is so much to see, I assume you don’t know what to look at.

Is the way the light plays on the town the main subject or is it the tiny area of sunset in the upper left hand corner? Since the town takes up two thirds of the image is the photo just poorly titled or is it perhaps that titles matter far less than you seemed to be suggesting.

I think it is nowhere nearly as interesting as your more complex original image but, based on the standards you set for the original version of the image in this thread, I assume you would have to agree that my version of your original image is far superior because it is simpler, adheres to the image’s title and removes all the unrelated and busy fluff that distracts the eye from the subject in the title.

Given your proclivity to the mundane my version of your image should please you much more. If I am wrong, please explain why the much more complex detailed version of your shot works and @mrcrustacean’s original version does not.

Mark

Mike’s original version

My reworking of Mike’s version based on the standards he set for the original image in this thread

My thoughts:

Titles are not the main thing that drives the content - the content comes first, and then I try to create an appropriate title.

I do accept the image you came up with, but there’s nothing there that gives it any context. Simplified, sure, but nobody is likely to recognize it as Patong Beach.

As to the standards I set, you may be right. I’ll leave that for others to decide, but I never would have posted that version. On the other hand, you may have something there, and maybe I should cut off the top of my original image, concentrating on the city, not the sky.