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The Art of Photography => User Critiques => Topic started by: Justan on February 12, 2010, 11:40:42 am

Title: The valley floor
Post by: Justan on February 12, 2010, 11:40:42 am

(http://explore-greenwater.com/pix/JE/ValleyFloor1.jpg)

Comments?

Title: The valley floor
Post by: Joe Behar on February 12, 2010, 11:55:52 am

Nice shot. Lots of interesting things to look at in the photo, which kept my attention.

Any chance you could invite the elk back on a sunny day? I think the shot would be a lot more powerful with a brighter day.

Title: The valley floor
Post by: Jeremy Roussak on February 12, 2010, 02:13:28 pm

Quote from: Joe Behar

Nice shot. Lots of interesting things to look at in the photo, which kept my attention.

Any chance you could invite the elk back on a sunny day? I think the shot would be a lot more powerful with a brighter day.

That was my first thought, also. Nice scene, interesting animals, but overall a bit drab.

Jeremy

Title: The valley floor
Post by: Dick Roadnight on February 12, 2010, 03:08:09 pm

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There are so many landscapes that lack a focal point, but the deer provide it in this on, and you have a foreground... but the rest of the picture is not exceptional.

If you could have moved left and got in more of the river...

Title: The valley floor
Post by: Justan on February 13, 2010, 09:35:36 am

Thanks for the comments.

BTW they are Elk not Deer

Title: The valley floor
Post by: wolfnowl on February 13, 2010, 04:05:09 pm

Or you could call them wapiti.  What we call moose in North America are elk in Europe...    

Mike.

Title: The valley floor
Post by: Justan on February 14, 2010, 10:55:16 am

I thought of using the term - I considered a title of “wet wapiti”  - anyway you one of the very few to know that term.