Luminous Landscape Forum
The Art of Photography => User Critiques => Topic started by: kal on January 28, 2009, 03:36:11 pm
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A little exercise on focus blending.
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Hi kal,
I'm a new poster here and have received some valuable comments on a picture of mine so I'll try to give something back to the forum, allthough pls. realize I'm not an expert critic.
First I think you met your objective of focus blending, if you hadn't mentioned it I would not have noticed and that's a good thing.
It's also an impressive view leading you from the rocks in front to the city in the back.
Two items where you might consider to improve the image:
1) a little more pop/contrast and also I would judge this shot to be slightly overexposed (but easily corrected in PP)
2) composition, maybe point down and get a bit less sky at the top and some more rock at the bottom, there's an impressive rock cut off there that I think might have contributed more than the top part of the sky.
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Hi kal,
I'm a new poster here and have received some valuable comments on a picture of mine so I'll try to give something back to the forum, allthough pls. realize I'm not an expert critic.
First I think you met your objective of focus blending, if you hadn't mentioned it I would not have noticed and that's a good thing.
It's also an impressive view leading you from the rocks in front to the city in the back.
Two items where you might consider to improve the image:
1) a little more pop/contrast and also I would judge this shot to be slightly overexposed (but easily corrected in PP)
2) composition, maybe point down and get a bit less sky at the top and some more rock at the bottom, there's an impressive rock cut off there that I think might have contributed more than the top part of the sky.
Thank you for the time you spent on my picture and for your critique.
I will try and work some more on the image, taking into account your suggestions -- not now, since I'm writing this on a laptop with an especially bad display. As for the composition, I cannot correct it, since there is nothing more at the bottom on the original image, but the place is 30 minutes drive + 45 minutes walk from home, so I hope to return there as soon as time (and weather...) permit.