Defiance

[Riaan van Wyk]

Thoughts please?

[Jeremy Roussak]

It's appealing but I think it would be better without the horizontal log and the wisp of cloud at the left-hand edge.

Jeremy

[Rob C]

It's appealing but I think it would be better without the horizontal log and the wisp of cloud at the left-hand edge.

Jeremy

Not so sure - the horizontal sort of holds the image in balance; take it away and the weight drags the dynamic out into freefall to the left.

One could overcome that, to an extent (if the horizontal branch removed), by cloning the whispy dark cloud up onto the right side of the sky, as a mooring line. Its shape would then have to be changed, of course.

In the end, why not just accept Nature as you find her?

Rob C

[popnfresh]

In the end, why not just accept Nature as you find her?

Screw nature. Move the freakin' log and take a better shot.

[Rob C]

Good Lord, Jeremy, you really are tempting the Fates!

;-)

Rob C

[luxborealis]

Nature is ephemeral - the log is here today, gone tomorrow or after the next storm. If one is pursuing art then one must take an artistic approach and be open to the fact that things can be changed to improve the design of the photography. It's not the design of nature that would be changed as nature has no design per se (without getting into the God factor).

[Rob C]

Hell, if that's all that stopping you, I'll drive the rig! Sorry - wrong movie

Okay then, Photoshop it into oblivion if you must. I don't think Riaan will, though.

Rob C

[RSL]

It's fine just the way it is, Riaan. Leave it alone. Defy the croppers and cloners.

[stamper]

But....what about the movers?

[Rob C]

But....what about the movers?

Check them out:

http://youtu.be/XboE3_7KZ3Y

Rob C

[Heinz]

Riaan,
I like it Boet. Good to see you have dusted off your camera. I take it there were not too many flat dogs around. That blown white cloud cutting the edge of the pic distracts a bit though.

[Dave (Isle of Skye)]

Nature is ephemeral - the log is here today, gone tomorrow or after the next storm. If one is pursuing art then one must take an artistic approach and be open to the fact that things can be changed to improve the design of the photography. It's not the design of nature that would be changed as nature has no design per se (without getting into the God factor).

Here, here!

I would have been dragging and shifting as much of the surrounding debris as I could out of the way, to try and isolate the main vertical log and get a clean composition, could have been a very powerful image without the clutter - if it's alive then I leave it, if its dead, in the way and I can move it, then I move it, but then I will always put it back when I am finished - Take only pictures, leave only footprints (Galen Rowell).

Dave

[Riaan van Wyk]

Thanks for the comments folks and appologies for the late reply.

I unfortunately have to abide by my own interpretation of Galen Rowel's words of "leaving only footprints"

I can't see myself shuffling stuff around to make a better composition as there would be no challenge in it then ( for me) in composing a landscape picture. But to each his own. Much obliged for freely sharing your thoughts- it is appreciated.