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The Art of Photography => User Critiques => Topic started by: grzybu on October 21, 2011, 08:30:44 am

Title: Sun rays
Post by: grzybu on October 21, 2011, 08:30:44 am
I've spot this place this morning.
(http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6228/6265865137_fc957261ff_b.jpg)

Title: Re: Sun rays
Post by: Dave (Isle of Skye) on October 21, 2011, 09:07:36 am
Yep, doesn't get much better than this, fantastic shot!

Dave (UK)
Title: Re: Sun rays
Post by: Eric Myrvaagnes on October 21, 2011, 09:45:55 am
Nice.
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Post by: jeremypayne on October 21, 2011, 10:43:17 am
Love the subtle texture and patterning on the jacket ... very nice exposure and composition.

Looks like a book cover.
Title: Re: Sun rays
Post by: francois on October 21, 2011, 10:51:12 am
Everything is "right" in this image: composition, exposure, light...

Bravo and thanks for sharing!
Title: Re: Sun rays
Post by: popnfresh on October 21, 2011, 11:13:46 am
Excellent work.
Title: Re: Sun rays
Post by: Slobodan Blagojevic on October 21, 2011, 11:39:00 am
Everything is "right" in this image: composition, exposure, light...

+1
Title: Re: Sun rays
Post by: louoates on October 21, 2011, 03:09:49 pm
Love the vision. Love the execution.
Title: Re: Sun rays
Post by: Josh-H on October 21, 2011, 05:27:43 pm
Not much more need be said thah has been said. Wonderful and highly evocative. Great work.
Title: Re: Sun rays
Post by: RSL on October 21, 2011, 06:48:19 pm
+ at least 1, probably a lot more. Fine work, Grizzy. Bravo!
Title: Re: Sun rays
Post by: popnfresh on October 22, 2011, 02:47:00 pm
+ at least 1, probably a lot more.

Gee, Russ, does this mean you have multiple personalities?   ;)
Title: Re: Sun rays
Post by: RSL on October 22, 2011, 04:21:01 pm
Absolutely, Pop. One for street, one for architecture, one for landscape, one for portraiture, one for...
Title: Re: Sun rays
Post by: Slobodan Blagojevic on October 22, 2011, 04:29:58 pm
Gee, Russ, does this mean you have multiple personalities?   ;)

... and multiple "hands of man", like some Indian gods ;)
Title: Re: Sun rays
Post by: Eric Myrvaagnes on October 22, 2011, 05:19:35 pm
... and multiple "hands of man", like some Indian gods ;)
You beat me to it, Sobodan!   :D

Eric
Title: Re: Sun rays
Post by: grzybu on October 24, 2011, 02:46:54 am
Thanks for comments :)
Title: Re: Sun rays
Post by: RSL on October 24, 2011, 07:53:07 pm
Okay, all you non-hands-of-man people, suppose the walking figure hadn't been in this picture. Would it still have been good? I'm dying to hear your attempts to evade that question.
Title: Re: Sun rays
Post by: Josh-H on October 24, 2011, 08:16:44 pm
Okay, all you non-hands-of-man people, suppose the walking figure hadn't been in this picture. Would it still have been good? I'm dying to hear your attempts to evade that question.

Russ, I would  have preferred it without the person. IMO the path through the trees is the hero - not the man. The 'man' changes the design and the feeling I get from the shot. Its a great shot with or without him though and that says a lot in and of itself.

Well evaded?  ;D
Title: Re: Sun rays
Post by: JohnKoerner on October 24, 2011, 08:40:38 pm
Russ, I would  have preferred it without the person. IMO the path through the trees is the hero - not the man. The 'man' changes the design and the feeling I get from the shot. Its a great shot with or without him though and that says a lot in and of itself.
Well evaded?  ;D

+1

The person and plaid shirt ruins what could have been a moving and surreal shot.

Get the cane please ...

Jack


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Title: Re: Sun rays
Post by: Michael West on October 24, 2011, 10:37:30 pm
Okay, all you non-hands-of-man people, suppose the walking figure hadn't been in this picture. Would it still have been good? I'm dying to hear your attempts to evade that question.
I

Im only guessing as given that my first impression was that the figure was perfect
Title: Re: Sun rays
Post by: EduPerez on October 25, 2011, 03:35:24 am
Perfect mood, I like it very much.

Okay, all you non-hands-of-man people, suppose the walking figure hadn't been in this picture. Would it still have been good? I'm dying to hear your attempts to evade that question.

No, it wouldn't be nearly as good without the man... because, obviously, this is a street photograph, not a landscape.
Title: Re: Sun rays
Post by: Jeremy Roussak on October 25, 2011, 03:40:15 am
Okay, all you non-hands-of-man people, suppose the walking figure hadn't been in this picture. Would it still have been good? I'm dying to hear your attempts to evade that question.
I usually go to some lengths to avoid having people in my photographs but I think the man's presence makes this shot. It's excellent.

Jeremy
Title: Re: Sun rays
Post by: Alistair on October 30, 2011, 11:18:42 am
Russ, I would  have preferred it without the person. IMO the path through the trees is the hero - not the man. The 'man' changes the design and the feeling I get from the shot. Its a great shot with or without him though and that says a lot in and of itself.

Well evaded?  ;D

I prefer the inclusion of a figure but I would have preferred him smaller in the frame; so taken with the figure further up the path. My .02p worth!
Title: Re: Sun rays
Post by: RSL on October 30, 2011, 02:54:54 pm
Okay, here it is for Josh and John (to coin a phrase). Better, guys?
Title: Re: Sun rays
Post by: Eric Myrvaagnes on October 30, 2011, 05:32:58 pm
Okay, here it is for Josh and John (to coin a phrase). Better, guys?
Much better.  ;)
Title: Re: Sun rays
Post by: Slobodan Blagojevic on October 30, 2011, 06:42:10 pm
Now can someone please insert a misty silhouette of, say, a distant deer into that white hole Russ created? ;D
Title: Re: Sun rays
Post by: RSL on October 30, 2011, 06:52:57 pm
Slobodan, Better go back and look at the original. That hole already was there, but part of it was filled by the figure that's so essential to the composition. Without the figure it's all hole, just like any landscape without the hand of man.
Title: Re: Sun rays
Post by: JohnKoerner on November 01, 2011, 11:25:39 am
Perfect mood, I like it very much.
No, it wouldn't be nearly as good without the man... because, obviously, this is a street photograph, not a landscape.


The mood is excellent, I agree, but seeing the details of the man's shirt (plaid) ruins it for me.

If it was an entirely darkened silhouette of a man walking, it would have created a better mood IMO.

Jack


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