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The Art of Photography => User Critiques => Topic started by: Ido Scharf on May 05, 2014, 01:54:06 pm

Title: Sunrise in Wadi Rum
Post by: Ido Scharf on May 05, 2014, 01:54:06 pm
(https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2917/13942759396_c93d3f040e_k.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/nf5hBo)Sunrise in Wadi Rum (https://flic.kr/p/nf5hBo) by ido.scharf (https://www.flickr.com/people/123762676@N06/), on Flickr

Didn't manage to upload it as an attachment, despite compressing and resizing as needed, so I used Flickr.
Title: Re: Sunrise in Wadi Rum
Post by: William Walker on May 05, 2014, 02:07:55 pm
I think that this is a lovely picture, the light is great and I like the foreground too.

I would have preferred to have a little more space, particularly on the left and a bit more sky. It feels a little cramped.

William
Title: Re: Sunrise in Wadi Rum
Post by: Ido Scharf on May 05, 2014, 02:10:58 pm
I think that this is a lovely picture, the light is great and I like the foreground too.

I would have preferred to have a little more space, particularly on the left and a bit more sky. It feels a little cramped.

William
Thanks  ;D
As I was standing there and looked for a composition, I just felt like the sky was too boring to justify putting more of it in the photo. And if I remember correctly, there was a distracting element on the left that I chose not to include in the photo, so that was a tradeoff.
Title: Re: Sunrise in Wadi Rum
Post by: luxborealis on May 05, 2014, 08:41:22 pm
Lovely light and quite an exciting place to be photographing (cue Maurice Jarre).

I can' they'll but think, though, how two-dimensional the scene appears when we are looking at an immense area of land. It needs some layers - shadows, undulations - something to give it the three-dimensionality this huge space deserves.
Title: Re: Sunrise in Wadi Rum
Post by: Ido Scharf on May 06, 2014, 02:59:29 am
Lovely light and quite an exciting place to be photographing (cue Maurice Jarre).

I can' they'll but think, though, how two-dimensional the scene appears when we are looking at an immense area of land. It needs some layers - shadows, undulations - something to give it the three-dimensionality this huge space deserves.
Thanks for the feedback. I'll make sure to look for it the next time I get to photograph a great scene.