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The Art of Photography => User Critiques => Topic started by: chuckn on December 27, 2016, 05:58:50 pm

Title: 2 Winter Scenes
Post by: chuckn on December 27, 2016, 05:58:50 pm: 2 photos taken on a very cold day here in northern Utah. Comments....

Chuck
Title: Re: 2 Winter Scenes
Post by: Eric Myrvaagnes on December 27, 2016, 06:05:36 pm: The second one works very nicely for me.
In the first I feel I'm seeing too much of the road.
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Post by: Bob_B on December 27, 2016, 06:13:18 pm: Ditto. My eyes moved around the first image without truly finding a subject, not so in the second photo. That tree is magnificent.
Title: Re: 2 Winter Scenes
Post by: graeme on December 27, 2016, 06:13:39 pm: Quote from: Eric Myrvaagnes on December 27, 2016, 06:05:36 pm
The second one works very nicely for me.
In the first I feel I'm seeing too much of the road.

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Title: Re: 2 Winter Scenes
Post by: Tony Jay on December 27, 2016, 06:20:24 pm: For me both compositions work.
Neither image depicts an unspoilt environment but rather a rural environment with plenty of human endeavour on show.
To me the road (as with the ditch in #2) is an intimate and valid part of the composition.
I do agree that the second image is the better one.

Tony Jay
Title: Re: 2 Winter Scenes
Post by: Chairman Bill on December 27, 2016, 06:44:54 pm: I really like the second image
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Post by: brandtb on December 28, 2016, 02:14:11 pm: I think that first image is really a nice one. The shape of the foliage etc. in the middle ground flanked by the road and the fence...very interesting...especially the line of the soft spikiness of the tree/shrubs receding. I would maybe want to see the dark shadows pulled up a bit on it though. I think the first while it has a "balance of elements" - is it as interesting as the first?, not really.
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Post by: francois on December 29, 2016, 04:51:36 am: I like both shots almost equally but have a slight preference for the first one. I cannot really find the right words but #1 has less agitation...