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The Art of Photography => User Critiques => Topic started by: Timo Löfgren on October 07, 2009, 09:29:10 am

Title: Morning light
Post by: Timo Löfgren on October 07, 2009, 09:29:10 am

Wista SP 4x5"+APO Symmar 210mm/5,6 Velvia 50

Title: Morning light
Post by: RSL on October 07, 2009, 11:02:54 am

Timo, You're making me homesick for northern Michigan where I spent a fair part of my youth. I used to enjoy both weeks of Summer and the occasional days in the Fall when it wasn't sleeting or snowing.

Title: Morning light
Post by: Geoff Wittig on October 07, 2009, 01:03:54 pm

Quote from: Timo Löfgren

Wista SP 4x5"+APO Symmar 210mm/5,6 Velvia 50

Love the contrast between the blue birch trunk in the shadows and the warmly sunlit background & reflections. To my eye the immediate foreground is a bit messy and distracting, including the reflections at the lower right. I might prefer it with the bottom cropped to the base of the tree and grasses.

Of course, it may be just gorgeous as is, in a good-sized print; tough to tell how it really looks on my crappy office monitor.

Title: Morning light
Post by: John R on October 07, 2009, 04:57:18 pm

I have mixed feelings about this image. On the one hand, the power of the golden light is striking and seductive; on the other, it looks a little busy to me. But no question, it is a striking scene that evokes memories of autumn, the kind you feel when you go for a walk in the woods.

JMR