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The Art of Photography => User Critiques => Topic started by: Jeremy Roussak on February 07, 2017, 02:46:42 pm

Title: end of the fall
Post by: Jeremy Roussak on February 07, 2017, 02:46:42 pm
Seljalandsfoss. Comments?

Jeremy
Title: Re: end of the fall
Post by: Slobodan Blagojevic on February 07, 2017, 03:58:14 pm
Not sure about that colorful dot. Addition (as in adding a point of interest) or distraction? I'd say distraction, as it is not defined enough to add interest. The same goes for the few twigs or blades of grass in the lower left corner. Otherwise, a nice photograph.
Title: Re: end of the fall
Post by: davidgp on February 07, 2017, 04:19:21 pm
Not sure about that colorful dot. Addition (as in adding a point of interest) or distraction? I'd say distraction, as it is not defined enough to add interest. The same goes for the few twigs or blades of grass in the lower left corner. Otherwise, a nice photograph.

+1

The first thing I did was to look what it was that in the left lower corner... and then I notice the head of the guy...

For the rest nice photograph... I have to travel in winter to Iceland



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Title: Re: end of the fall
Post by: Jeremy Roussak on February 08, 2017, 03:47:05 am
Not sure about that colorful dot. Addition (as in adding a point of interest) or distraction? I'd say distraction, as it is not defined enough to add interest. The same goes for the few twigs or blades of grass in the lower left corner. Otherwise, a nice photograph.

My first instinct was to remove the man but dithered because I wondered if he added scale. On reflection, I think you're right.

For the rest nice photograph... I have to travel in winter to Iceland

It's stunning: I can't wait to go back. Take warm clothes!

Jeremy
Title: Re: end of the fall
Post by: Jeremy Roussak on February 08, 2017, 02:31:29 pm
Better?

Jeremy
Title: Re: end of the fall
Post by: Slobodan Blagojevic on February 08, 2017, 02:51:04 pm
Yes.

Also... I know your range of movements (a.k.a. composing by your feet) was probably extremely limited, but in a hypothetical case, it would have been useful to move around until you eliminate the yellow patches of grass from your field of view. Or you can fix it in Photoshop ;)
Title: Re: end of the fall
Post by: Jeremy Roussak on February 09, 2017, 03:14:23 am
Yes.

Also... I know your range of movements (a.k.a. composing by your feet) was probably extremely limited, but in a hypothetical case, it would have been useful to move around until you eliminate the yellow patches of grass from your field of view. Or you can fix it in Photoshop ;)

Very limited, yes. Here's the scene: I was standing on the peak in the circle.

Jeremy
Title: Re: end of the fall
Post by: Eric Myrvaagnes on February 09, 2017, 10:46:34 am
Very limited, yes. Here's the scene: I was standing on the peak in the circle.

Jeremy
I'm glad you got back safely!
Title: Re: end of the fall
Post by: Rajan Parrikar on February 09, 2017, 12:29:10 pm
Good to see a different take on this very popular location. The colour dot is easily cloned out.
Title: Re: end of the fall
Post by: Rajan Parrikar on February 09, 2017, 12:30:58 pm
I'm glad you got back safely!

But this guy (http://icelandmag.visir.is/article/american-traveller-rescued-ice-sar-units-after-he-chases-his-aerial-drone-a-mountain) almost didn't. And fellas like him may make it difficult for the rest of us.
Title: Re: end of the fall
Post by: Patricia Sheley on February 09, 2017, 12:57:39 pm
Glad you posted this one. Compelling as an environmental photograph. Find myself wishing you would post more of these...Thanks for posting this~

...and thanks as always to Rajan for keeping us so well familiarized with "the rest of the stories" in the locations he so lovingly documents and shares with us here.
Title: Re: end of the fall
Post by: JNB_Rare on February 09, 2017, 02:23:30 pm
The version with the person for scale is not ideal. OTOH, without the scale, I don't really have the sense of how large these falls are, without supporting contextual images. So the image as a sole image suffers a bit, IMO.

I have had the same problem (and I apologize for the following images because they were taken with a small point and shoot camera). Here is a picture of "Poll na bPeist" (the Wormhole) on the Aran Island of Inis Mor. It is a fascinating natural fault. But, because the rocks were so very slippery that day, no one could safely climb down closer to it. So it's very hard to tell that it is about 20 feet wide and 50 feet long. However, some of my other images from the area do give a general sense of scale along the coastline. I would love to go back some day and do some real photography.

The Wormhole, too, can be a dangerous place: Student Swept Off Rocks (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3042120/Student-lucky-alive-getting-swept-rocks-giant-wave-landing-40ft-Aran-Islands-Wormhole.html)

Title: Re: end of the fall
Post by: Jeremy Roussak on February 11, 2017, 08:38:33 am
Glad you posted this one. Compelling as an environmental photograph. Find myself wishing you would post more of these...Thanks for posting this~

...and thanks as always to Rajan for keeping us so well familiarized with "the rest of the stories" in the locations he so lovingly documents and shares with us here.

Agreed about Rajan. I thought of that as a kind of documentary snapshot, to remind me of the height of the hill I'd climbed (I'm unfit and as far from a mountaineer as one can reasonably get). It hadn't occur to me that anyone would actually like it!

I'm glad you got back safely!

I felt perfectly safe nearly all the time. Even if I'd have fallen, I'd just have slithered for a while.

Probably.

Jeremy
Title: Re: end of the fall
Post by: Jeremy Roussak on February 11, 2017, 12:23:00 pm
The version with the person for scale is not ideal. OTOH, without the scale, I don't really have the sense of how large these falls are, without supporting contextual images. So the image as a sole image suffers a bit, IMO.

You're right, which is why I'd originally left him in there, but it didn't really work. I've just posted another shot, here (http://forum.luminous-landscape.com/index.php?topic=116363.0), taken from the same place as this one, showing the size of the fall.

The Wormhole does look impressively dangerous!

Jeremy