This is a photo taken by one of my favorite photographers, Vincent Laforet. It's simply an aerial photo of surfers in North Shore, Oahu, Hawaii. Taken with a tilt shit lens. With the photo mostly filled with the blue of the sea, in the middle you see the surfboards with gathering with mostly white colored surfboards plus a bit of red and yellow. The blue sea and the yellow/red surf boards form split complementary color harmony. Instead of all the surfboards all colored, the majority of the white boards gives it a clam feel instead of tension despite the high saturation of the colors, more like a medium between the complementary colors. The randomness of the surfers location instead of being in a circle gives it a more relaxed feeling than a artificial structure which has tension in it. I respond to Vincent Laforet's journalistic style of photography a lot. Instead of enforcing the human elements in the photo to work together, he seeks for the moments(mostly on a helicopter) that the human elements work with each other naturally in life.
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