autumnal wall

[Jeremy Roussak]

Warmer than Iceland! Comments?

Jeremy

[Eric Myrvaagnes]

The light on the wall (both sides) is just lovely.

[francois]

Yes, the warm light that brushes the top of the wall makes the shot.

[petermfiore]

Beautiful light...and the lower of a  Jack O'Lantern. Very timely.

Petetr

[Slobodan Blagojevic]

Well seen.

Now, I do not see the need to keep the wall, presumably in shadows, so well lit. Nor the grass. Nor color.

When you see something nice, as you did, accentuate it. In this case, treat the right hand diagonal area the same as the left one, i.e., rather dark. And in black & white. And cut the lower portion, so that the final ratio is more like 16:9.

And... ok, enough! Although, it is a critique forum, after all

[RSL]

I agree with Slobodan, except for the crop.

[Jeremy Roussak]

Well seen.

Now, I do not see the need to keep the wall, presumably in shadows, so well lit. Nor the grass. Nor color.

When you see something nice, as you did, accentuate it. In this case, treat the right hand diagonal area the same as the left one, i.e., rather dark. And in black & white. And cut the lower portion, so that the final ratio is more like 16:9.

And... ok, enough! Although, it is a critique forum, after all

And I'm looking for critique, so all is well.

Here's a version with the lower right muted as is the upper left. Interestingly, the light on the wall was as it was: I'd lowered the highlights slider a little, but the exposure, shadows, whites and blacks were at zero. In this version, I've pulled both black and white sliders to the left, which perhaps accentuates the sunlit areas.

I have tried it in B&W (it's almost a reflex), but I don't like it much: it loses the lovely warm glow on the wall, which seems to me to be at the heart of the shot. I don't understand the need for a crop, either.

Jeremy

[Eric Myrvaagnes]

I think the new version is an improvement on an already fine image.
Slobodan does sometimes have something constructive to say, doesn't he?   
I don't think B&W would work as well, because the golden glow of the sunlit part is really essential.

[Slobodan Blagojevic]

... I don't understand the need for a crop, either.

Just to reduce the area of ground/wall that doesn't add anything to the image, and concentrate the view on the top of the wall.