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The Art of Photography => User Critiques => Topic started by: David Eckels on April 10, 2013, 08:04:29 pm

Title: Sky Arch One and Two
Post by: David Eckels on April 10, 2013, 08:04:29 pm

May I solicit preferences? I was working up the full panorama and saw an alternative cropping that I did see in camera, but by then I'd lost that lovely cloud "arch" to the left.

Title: Re: Sky Arch One and Two
Post by: Slobodan Blagojevic on April 10, 2013, 08:46:20 pm

Looks like you are trying to revive an old thread (http://www.luminous-landscape.com/forum/index.php?topic=24136.0), especially with #1 ;D, which appears to be better compositionally as well.

Title: Re: Sky Arch One and Two
Post by: Eric Myrvaagnes on April 10, 2013, 08:59:17 pm

I prefer #1.

Title: Re: Sky Arch One and Two
Post by: David Eckels on April 10, 2013, 09:27:38 pm

Quote from: Slobodan Blagojevic on April 10, 2013, 08:46:20 pm

Looks like you are trying to revive an old thread (http://www.luminous-landscape.com/forum/index.php?topic=24136.0), especially with #1 ;D, which appears to be better compositionally as well.

Very funny! But both you and Eric are throwing me a curve with preference for #1 (more phalluses are better? ;) ) I am torn between the two, probably like #2 better. Do you and Eric have a reason for your preference? Or do you just like ;) that old thread? LOL...and thanks!

Title: Re: Sky Arch One and Two
Post by: sdwilsonsct on April 10, 2013, 10:22:15 pm

I'm for #2 too. Less clutter.

Title: Re: Sky Arch One and Two
Post by: Eric Myrvaagnes on April 11, 2013, 12:06:51 pm

I think I would prefer #2 if you cropped (sorry, Russ) a tiny bit off the right edge, so the right-most big rock is just complete.

Title: Re: Sky Arch One and Two
Post by: Slobodan Blagojevic on April 11, 2013, 08:51:14 pm

Quote from: David Eckels on April 10, 2013, 09:27:38 pm

... Do you and Eric have a reason for your preference?...

I do.

Compositionally, #1 is better balanced. #2 has two halves, rocks on the right and emptiness on the left (well, apart from the sky). The concentration of elements on the right causes that imbalance.

As for the black sky: I do not mind it in general, however, here it is inconsistent with the rest of the image, which lacks similarly heavy blacks, at least for some parts. It makes the rest of the image cutout-like.