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Equipment & Techniques => Landscape & Nature Photography => Topic started by: mseawell on May 17, 2014, 11:39:59 am

Title: The road home (sunrise)
Post by: mseawell on May 17, 2014, 11:39:59 am

The road home..for a little while longer.

Mark

Title: Re: The road home (sunrise)
Post by: KMRennie on May 17, 2014, 11:46:53 am

Lovely image Mark and the mist is a real bonus.
Ken

Title: Re: The road home (sunrise)
Post by: mseawell on May 17, 2014, 12:04:14 pm

Thanks Ken!

Title: Re: The road home (sunrise)
Post by: Bruno Gil on May 17, 2014, 01:08:22 pm

Quote from: KMRennie on May 17, 2014, 11:46:53 am

Lovely image Mark and the mist is a real bonus.
Ken

X2, Love the tones

Title: Re: The road home (sunrise)
Post by: Eric Myrvaagnes on May 17, 2014, 04:55:45 pm

Ditto!

Title: Re: The road home (sunrise)
Post by: luxborealis on May 18, 2014, 12:02:34 pm

Great tones, great depth and beautiful subtle colours. Consider "removing" the tree limbs sticking in from the left side. Also, I have the same concern as the black & white you also posted - that of the signal box acting as an unnecessary distraction. It's angularity is the first thing I see after the sun as it is in such contrast to the flow and gentle shapes of the rest of the photograph. Clone it out and you will have a "less realistic", but more ”artistic" representation of what is a beautiful scene. You may know it is missing, but your audience won't (except for that 1 in 1000 train buff who knows every signal box along the line) and you'll end up with a stronger photograph.

Just my objective 2 cents worth.

Title: Re: The road home (sunrise)
Post by: Eric Myrvaagnes on May 18, 2014, 01:17:18 pm

As usual, Terry is spot on. Cloning out the signal box would be a significant improvement in an already fine image.

Title: Re: The road home (sunrise)
Post by: mseawell on May 18, 2014, 02:42:54 pm

Thanks for the kind critiques! Very good points about the box.

Mark

Title: Re: The road home (sunrise)
Post by: Paulo Bizarro on May 19, 2014, 04:12:15 am

Agree with others. Lovely and soft light.

Title: Re: The road home (sunrise)
Post by: Peter McLennan on May 19, 2014, 08:56:39 am

I agree with Terry, too.  The little tree branches are particularly distracting and add nothing. I'd also lose whatever those little black things are in the center of the tracks.

All this work is justified for an otherwise superb image.

Title: Re: The road home (sunrise)
Post by: mseawell on May 19, 2014, 09:42:22 am

Thanks again. That is grass growing up through the tracks. I shot the same area the next day which I will post but what I didn't catch the camera did...a fox!

Good suggestions on this image and I appreciate all the input, very good.

Mark

Title: Re: The road home (sunrise)
Post by: Chris Calohan on May 19, 2014, 04:56:24 pm

Hard not to like this. Bueno!

Title: Re: The road home (sunrise)
Post by: Roger S. on May 19, 2014, 09:19:07 pm

Hats off to Terry for the comments. The debate between "artistic" and "real" presentation - what a good insight.  A real nice photo. I like it.