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The Art of Photography => User Critiques => Topic started by: MoreOrLess on June 21, 2013, 05:29:06 am

Title: Misty Morning
Post by: MoreOrLess on June 21, 2013, 05:29:06 am
A shot from the fields behind my house from awhile back I'v gotten around to working on...

(http://img845.imageshack.us/img845/7677/ftwz.jpg)
Title: Re: Misty Morning
Post by: francois on June 21, 2013, 05:46:01 am
What a superb light!
Title: Re: Misty Morning
Post by: nemo295 on June 21, 2013, 10:08:21 am
The light is really nice as is the tree. But the rather ugly brush in the foreground ruins the shot for me.
Title: Re: Misty Morning
Post by: LoisWakeman on June 21, 2013, 11:04:45 am
Ugliness is in the eye of the beholder I guess. The weeds with cobwebs on are so evocative to me.

A very pleasing image - timeless and almost placeless too, at least in temperate places.
Title: Re: Misty Morning
Post by: amolitor on June 21, 2013, 11:11:38 am
Very nice!

I do wish you'd stood a bit more to your left, and turned the camera more to your right.

The right side of the frame is very strong, a lovely bright light against equally lovely darkness. There's good subject matter over there as well. The left side of the frame rather peters out to, well, not blandness, but it looks weak when stacked up next to the right.

The color is simply fantastic. Very painterly.
Title: Re: Misty Morning
Post by: MoreOrLess on June 21, 2013, 12:23:53 pm
I'd agree the foreground plants look more cluttered at web size.

I'v got a similar print from a few days before with a foreground with plants either side so I went with a more central one with this shot. Upgraded to a D800 inbetween so only needed to use a 2 stop grad aswell rather than a 4 stop as on the shot below.

(http://img833.imageshack.us/img833/5297/wctq.jpg)
Title: Re: Misty Morning
Post by: nemo295 on June 21, 2013, 12:52:38 pm
Better foreground, but the light isn't as wonderful as in the previous shot.
Title: Re: Misty Morning
Post by: RSL on June 21, 2013, 01:14:20 pm
I agree with Doug, and I also agree with Lois. Here's another way to look at the first one.
Title: Re: Misty Morning
Post by: William Walker on June 21, 2013, 01:19:49 pm
The light is really nice as is the tree. But the rather ugly brush in the foreground ruins the shot for me.

+1
Title: Re: Misty Morning
Post by: TwinII on June 23, 2013, 06:39:45 am
Wow fantastic light.  I love the spider web in the foreground!