Luminous Landscape Forum
Equipment & Techniques => Landscape & Nature Photography => Topic started by: Richard Pearlman on October 26, 2014, 06:26:18 pm
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Comments and critiques are appreciated.
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Soft, pastel rendering. Quite pleasing. Pano format works well with the subject.
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Yes, the warm rendition makes it very pleasing. Clean and tasteful.
I guess, during the day, the sand looks pure white and grass more green.
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I like the warm and soft tones, wonderful light.
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The color in the sand makes this work for me, I'd like the clouds to perhaps be a touch more saturated.
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I like this very much, particularly the soft pastel hues. While I also like the elongated "letterbox" format, I wish there was another 10% or so along the bottom to balance it with the top. Also, while the clouds could use slightly stronger definition, I also like the fact that, as is, their brightness causes me to "lean in" and look a little more closely.
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Thanks for the critiques. I was trying to achieve a warm image, considering the golden morning light, and show movement as well. Thanks for the ideas regarding the clouds and maybe a slightly different crop. I will look into both of these suggestions.
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Ok...I'm going to go against the flow here.
I think the overall piece is flat.
There is nothing to drive one's eye into the piece. It feels like it is all on the same plane. Even the farthest part of the image is right on top of everything else.
I do enjoy a good dunes shot but this one doesn't make it for me.
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"flat"
I am surprised you find it so, there are at least seven layers of light and shade across the dunes on my screen, calibrated Eizo. The layers are subtle, but that, I should think, was the intention.
I like it.
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Well... on my " calibrated LaCie 324" if you're going to do the name dropping thing ::)... it does show all of the colors but the monitor has nothing to with it, now does it.
It is about how the subject was photographed. It feels as if it was shot with a tele lens which tends to flatten the image. Where is the intro into the dunes and the "eye road" thru the image?
Exactly what is drawing you into the image?? His name at the lower left?
The line of grasses isn't doing it, the sand in front isn't, the small plants in the front aren't organized enough to form any sort of pull into the dunes. so, where does the eye start to enter the image? It's all on the same visual plane. There just isn't enough separation.
Of course, all of this is purely my opinion based on my years of photographing, just as your opinion is based on yours.
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Perhaps it is my particular (or peculiar if you prefer) eyes, but they happily follow the layers away from foreground to distance along a sinuous line, even if there may not be a single track through the image.
Always interesting that all do not see the same scene all the time, makes life more interesting :)
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Perhaps it is my particular (or peculiar if you prefer) eyes, but they happily follow the layers away from foreground to distance along a sinuous line, even if there may not be a single track through the image.
Always interesting that all do not see the same scene all the time, makes life more interesting :)
+1.
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Always interesting that all do not see the same scene all the time, makes life more interesting :)
Yeah, agree!! Think how boring the world would be otherwise!!! ;D ;D