Luminous Landscape Forum
The Art of Photography => User Critiques => Topic started by: cmi on June 14, 2009, 04:21:28 am
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This is early dusk in Markt Schwaben, the contrails are jets heading from Munich airport. Shot with the intention of a vertical, but also cropped a slight bit at top and bottom too. What do you like / dislike about this image?
Christian
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As a colour study, it's beautiful. Maybe you should have gone a bit to the right to get a bit more contrail in, but then again maybe not. I live the way the contrails are parallel with the cloud bank.
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I would be tempted to crop off about two-thirds of the dark area at the bottom, so you have a fairly narrow line of trees to anchor the image. To my eye that would emphasize the contrails further.
I like the simple directness of the image.
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I would be tempted to crop off about two-thirds of the dark area at the bottom, so you have a fairly narrow line of trees to anchor the image. To my eye that would emphasize the contrails further.
I like the simple directness of the image.
I agree. I don't know if that's mist near the bottom (in the middle of the black band), but it comes across as noise. I'd keep a thin layer of the silhouette to anchor the image, but I'd chop off the rest.
Mike.
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Thanks for your suggestions, very much appreciated! As I worked on the image I liked it very much, but then I became unsure, it appeared to simple for me so I wanted to know what others think.
Cropping away the bottom does indeed help the image. I also tried the suggestion from Ed B going to the right because I also felt there was somehow too less space there but Im not sure it makes a big difference. Nevertheless here the new version.
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The new one works for me. Nice.
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Yes.
Mike.
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Yes.