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The Art of Photography => User Critiques => Topic started by: Jeremy Roussak on March 24, 2013, 01:40:55 pm

Title: darkening sky
Post by: Jeremy Roussak on March 24, 2013, 01:40:55 pm

Too much going on?

Jeremy

Title: Re: darkening sky
Post by: RSL on March 24, 2013, 02:32:17 pm

Very nice, Jeremy. Bravo!

Title: Re: darkening sky
Post by: David Eckels on March 24, 2013, 03:12:33 pm

Quote from: RSL on March 24, 2013, 02:32:17 pm

Very nice, Jeremy. Bravo!

Oh my, no! Perfect to my eye. I agree with Russ.

Title: Re: darkening sky
Post by: francois on March 24, 2013, 03:26:24 pm

Quote from: kikashi on March 24, 2013, 01:40:55 pm

Too much going on?

Jeremy

No, don't worry!  :D

Title: Re: darkening sky
Post by: William Walker on March 24, 2013, 04:12:10 pm

Lovely!

Title: Re: darkening sky
Post by: Eric Myrvaagnes on March 24, 2013, 05:50:46 pm

Ditto to all the others!

Title: Re: darkening sky
Post by: Tony Jay on March 24, 2013, 05:52:30 pm

Nice Jeremy, really nice.
Looks a mite chilly though!

Tony Jay

Title: Re: darkening sky
Post by: amolitor on March 24, 2013, 05:56:11 pm

Very nice. The foreground greenery balances the sky, and stuff!

I like the division into thirds, vertically. Somehow that formalism contains the busyness. I think by constraining each type of busy into its own 1/3 band, you control it visually, and are permitted to squish a TON of stuff into the frame.

This is the classical "rule of thirds" which is quite different from the modern, photography-only, "put objects on 1/3 lines" that drives all the local Lake Wossname Resorts calendars.

Title: Re: darkening sky
Post by: nemo295 on March 25, 2013, 01:27:19 am

The background and sky are a lot more interesting than the foreground.

Title: Re: darkening sky
Post by: Justan on March 25, 2013, 01:40:54 am

^Agreed. The lines in the foreground work great to draw the eye back. I like the atmosphere and the scene from about the mid-ground and back. The foreground is detailed, and bright, but not very interesting.

Were it mine I’d use a gradient to darken the first clump of foreground a bit a to help guide the eye to the midway and back sections, which is where the viewer can get comfortably lost in this wonderful richly atmospheric scene.

Title: Re: darkening sky
Post by: nemo295 on March 25, 2013, 02:07:55 am

I would have looked around to see if there was something interesting to put in the foreground and then moved the camera to shoot it.

Title: Re: darkening sky
Post by: Jeremy Roussak on March 25, 2013, 04:08:14 pm

Thanks, all. Interesting comments.

It was fairly chilly, Tony, and it rained for much of the rest of the day: pretty much average for the the Lake District.

Jeremy

Title: Re: darkening sky
Post by: wolfnowl on March 27, 2013, 01:38:01 pm

All been said - very nicely done.

Mike.

Title: Re: darkening sky
Post by: jhemp on March 28, 2013, 12:07:21 pm

I dont like the plants in the foreground, but I love the distant mountains and mist.  I think its the color and contrast of the foreground that doesn't work for me.  Too busy up front.