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The Art of Photography => User Critiques => Topic started by: Timo Löfgren on September 04, 2012, 01:43:53 pm

Title: Baltic sea II
Post by: Timo Löfgren on September 04, 2012, 01:43:53 pm

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Title: Re: Baltic sea II
Post by: shutterpup on September 04, 2012, 01:51:35 pm

I like #1 better than 2. I don't care for the soft treatment of the water, using the slow shutterspeed. It's a technique I don't care for in any picture. I find the third island in the background in #1 to look like it's been fractured; whether natural or not, it's distracting.

Title: Re: Baltic sea II
Post by: francois on September 04, 2012, 01:53:43 pm

I also like #1 over #2. Both images are rich in textures but the light in #1 wins the show for me.

Title: Re: Baltic sea II
Post by: Slobodan Blagojevic on September 04, 2012, 02:18:54 pm

Vignetting or gradual ND too strong?

Title: Re: Baltic sea II
Post by: RSL on September 04, 2012, 04:37:50 pm

They're both stunning, Timo, as usual. I guess I'll have to be the contrarian. I love the surrealism in #2. It's like a dream, a very cold one.

Title: Re: Baltic sea II
Post by: Patricia Sheley on September 04, 2012, 06:44:26 pm

Quote from: RSL on September 04, 2012, 04:37:50 pm

They're both stunning, Timo, as usual. I guess I'll have to be the contrarian. I love the surrealism in #2. It's like a dream, a very cold one.

I too would love to inhabit that space for awhile...wonderful, and something well beyond the seen captured....and melody floating as an echo...

Title: Re: Baltic sea II
Post by: wolfnowl on September 04, 2012, 11:31:30 pm

#1 of the two for me.  The vignetting seems rather strong on them both, but I love the leading lines in the rock of the first image  Brings the eye in from the bottom of the frame and off into the background.

Mike.

Title: Re: Baltic sea II
Post by: Michael West on September 05, 2012, 01:35:13 am

I like the first image.

The second doesnt hang together for me

Title: Re: Baltic sea II
Post by: francois on September 05, 2012, 05:31:29 am

Quote from: wolfnowl on September 04, 2012, 11:31:30 pm

#1 of the two for me.  The vignetting seems rather strong on them both, but I love the leading lines in the rock of the first image  Brings the eye in from the bottom of the frame and off into the background.

Mike.

I agree, vignetting is strong but my eyes stick to the textures rocks and don't seem to notice the vignetting or heavy grad at the top of the image.

Title: Re: Baltic sea II
Post by: Riaan van Wyk on September 05, 2012, 08:58:14 am

Number one for me Timo.

Title: Re: Baltic sea II
Post by: Brett_D on September 05, 2012, 12:03:12 pm

#1 for me too (though I think both would be improved if you shot from a lower angle  -- there would be less perspective distortion).

Title: Re: Baltic sea II
Post by: Dave (Isle of Skye) on September 06, 2012, 02:45:40 pm

Hi Timo,

I like the first shot a lot, great mood, beautiful detail and subtle tones.

I like long exposures and the misty water effect it can produce, not the complete cotton wool effect as seen in some images, but the soft ethereal detail as captured and shown here. I also like how the elements (receding rocks) within the frame, form a decreasing perspective lead-in line towards the dark brooding sky in the background. The only suggestion/comment I would offer, would be to leave the vignette as is, but open up the top centre of the image a little, just to add more emphasis and light to the far distant ocean and skyline, to create even more depth.

But even as it stands, the image is excellent and delightfully brooding.

Bravo!

Dave