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The Art of Photography => User Critiques => Topic started by: Jeremy Roussak on February 16, 2020, 03:16:51 pm

Title: men at work
Post by: Jeremy Roussak on February 16, 2020, 03:16:51 pm
Scale!

Jeremy
Title: Re: men at work
Post by: RSL on February 16, 2020, 03:18:02 pm
Very interesting, Jeremy. Love the colors.
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Post by: Rob C on February 16, 2020, 05:11:10 pm
Very interesting shot: great colours and geometry.

Rob
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Post by: Eric Myrvaagnes on February 16, 2020, 07:36:44 pm
Very interesting shot: great colours and geometry.

Rob
+1.
Title: Re: men at work
Post by: MattBurt on February 17, 2020, 06:42:29 pm
In addition to the color and geometry I like the sense of scale. Impressive!

As a slight nit and really only a potential nit to pick, if the snow area terminated just above the frame to form a clean triangle, that would be better included than the way it is cut off now. But since I can't see the top of that snow patch, it may continue and require the cut. But if it must be framed that way out of necessity it is still a fine image. :)
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Post by: Rajan Parrikar on February 18, 2020, 03:54:32 pm
Excellent, Jeremy.
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Post by: Alan Klein on February 18, 2020, 10:07:26 pm
Nice shot Jeremy.  Where were you and what ship and accomodations? 
Title: Re: men at work
Post by: Jeremy Roussak on February 19, 2020, 03:40:43 am
Thanks, all.

Matt, yes. Mea culpa.

Alan, this was taken in September on a trip to Greenland (east coast), with Kevin Raber. The ship was the Ocean Nova, which was the same as we'd had for Antarctica the previous year.

Jeremy
Title: Re: men at work
Post by: Jeremy Roussak on February 19, 2020, 01:04:19 pm
As a slight nit and really only a potential nit to pick, if the snow area terminated just above the frame to form a clean triangle, that would be better included than the way it is cut off now. But since I can't see the top of that snow patch, it may continue and require the cut. But if it must be framed that way out of necessity it is still a fine image. :)

I had a second shot, I discovered, which could be used for a vertical pano to add the top of the snow triangle.

Jeremy
Title: Re: men at work
Post by: James Clark on February 19, 2020, 01:46:01 pm
Like the shot.  I'm sure I'm in the vast minority, compositionally wrong, and yes I get that the people are critical to showing scale, but I hate having 'em in there.  Sorry. :)
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Post by: MattBurt on February 19, 2020, 03:14:52 pm
I had a second shot, I discovered, which could be used for a vertical pano to add the top of the snow triangle.

Jeremy

Nice. Eliminating that cut is an improvement. Good thing that you had that other one. I hate when I realize something like this in my work after the fact and don't have another with the complete element. 
Title: Re: men at work
Post by: Eric Myrvaagnes on February 19, 2020, 06:02:45 pm
The new one nails it. Very fine.
Title: Re: men at work
Post by: armand on February 19, 2020, 10:43:26 pm
I’ll be against the current here. The new shot works better but I’m not that taken by it; sure, it gives a sense of scale but could be better.
Would have much preferred a tighter framing, either very tight on the blue iceberg or even closer, with the boat against the blue wall. You lose some scale but gain more on the artistic part. As it is I appreciate it more as a documentary shot.
Title: Re: men at work
Post by: Jeremy Roussak on February 20, 2020, 05:17:01 am
Like the shot.  I'm sure I'm in the vast minority, compositionally wrong, and yes I get that the people are critical to showing scale, but I hate having 'em in there.  Sorry. :)

My wife said the same thing.

Would have much preferred a tighter framing, either very tight on the blue iceberg or even closer, with the boat against the blue wall. You lose some scale but gain more on the artistic part. As it is I appreciate it more as a documentary shot.

Curious: I'd have thought a tightly-framed shot of a group of photographers in a boat against a blue berg would be pure documentary, of interest only to them (and their relatives, perhaps).

Jeremy