Luminous Landscape Forum
The Art of Photography => User Critiques => Topic started by: John R on April 30, 2009, 11:09:05 pm
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Some shots taken at Royal Botanical Gardens in Burlington. Was a beautiful sunny and windy day. Not the greatest or ideal conditions for taking foliage or blossoms but I took what I could get.
JMR
I added the colour version and a pano.
JMR
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The first two don't do much for me, but I like the third one!
Mike.
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The blossoms give the impression of the images almost being infrared. I like the first and third. The second composition doesn't quite work for me. You have two opposing forces that don't seem to blend: the sky and the trees. I may be saying that just because it's flanked by two images where the trees are the main subject matter. Maybe try boosting contrast a little (but keep in mind that I am biased toward high contrast)
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The first two don't do much for me, but I like the third one!
Mike.
Yep - #3 is excellent.
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#1 doesn't really work for me, the branches in the foreground take up too much of the image frame and don't really add anything to the image except as a distractio IMHO.
#2 is better, you've got a really interesting sky, and the tonal range of the image is nice and full. The composition feels chopped off at the bottom though.
#3 is definitely the winner, I like everything about it, from the arrangement of the trees to the contrast between the branches and blooms. Nicely done.
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Well, the second image is an example of how one can get caught up with such a beautiful sky-cloud pattern and pretend it will minimize the not so good composition. I knew the image was not so great in colour but I cropped out the bottom (pathways) and converted to BW. The 3rd image is the opposite; it is full of dark shadows at the bottom which did not work well in colour, so I tried a BW treatment. The first, I think is reasonably good in colour and I took it specifically to try an Orton treatment effect, using two exposures sandwiched.
JMR