Luminous Landscape Forum
The Art of Photography => User Critiques => Topic started by: Jeremy Roussak on May 04, 2014, 09:37:50 am
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Colour? B&W? Neither?
Jeremy
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What a wonderful location, but it appears you are trying to capture too much in a single photo, so it gives a collage-like feeling, rather than a feeling of unity. It's like looking at a zoo animal through the bars of its cage.
The colour works better than the B&W as you have colour contrasts to provide the separation lacking in the B&W.
Re-composing from a higher angle, moving slightly to the right and closer to the tree would do two things:
- the higher angle would provide some separation between the tree and rock formation;
- moving slightly right would keep the foliage of the tree from obscuring the rock; and
- getting closer would eliminate more of the foreground.
I'm not saying this would be the perfect solution, but it might help to produce a "cleaner" image.
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I prefer the monochrome of the two, but I agree with Terry - there's at least three images stuck together. If the two trees are your subject, a vastly shallower DOF would help immensely.
Mike.
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I like them both but with a slight preference for the B&W version.
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They're both nice, but as Terry says, a slightly different perspective might help. It might also exclude that pale rectangular object on the left, just above the green bush