Luminous Landscape Forum
The Art of Photography => User Critiques => Topic started by: Jeremy Roussak on March 24, 2013, 01:40:55 pm
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Too much going on?
Jeremy
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Very nice, Jeremy. Bravo!
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Very nice, Jeremy. Bravo!
Oh my, no! Perfect to my eye. I agree with Russ.
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Too much going on?
Jeremy
No, don't worry! :D
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Lovely!
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Ditto to all the others!
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Nice Jeremy, really nice.
Looks a mite chilly though!
Tony Jay
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Very nice. The foreground greenery balances the sky, and stuff!
I like the division into thirds, vertically. Somehow that formalism contains the busyness. I think by constraining each type of busy into its own 1/3 band, you control it visually, and are permitted to squish a TON of stuff into the frame.
This is the classical "rule of thirds" which is quite different from the modern, photography-only, "put objects on 1/3 lines" that drives all the local Lake Wossname Resorts calendars.
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The background and sky are a lot more interesting than the foreground.
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^Agreed. The lines in the foreground work great to draw the eye back. I like the atmosphere and the scene from about the mid-ground and back. The foreground is detailed, and bright, but not very interesting.
Were it mine I’d use a gradient to darken the first clump of foreground a bit a to help guide the eye to the midway and back sections, which is where the viewer can get comfortably lost in this wonderful richly atmospheric scene.
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I would have looked around to see if there was something interesting to put in the foreground and then moved the camera to shoot it.
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Thanks, all. Interesting comments.
It was fairly chilly, Tony, and it rained for much of the rest of the day: pretty much average for the the Lake District.
Jeremy
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All been said - very nicely done.
Mike.
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I dont like the plants in the foreground, but I love the distant mountains and mist. I think its the color and contrast of the foreground that doesn't work for me. Too busy up front.