Luminous Landscape Forum
The Art of Photography => User Critiques => Topic started by: David Eckels on February 16, 2015, 01:41:31 pm
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I took a few shots of Mesa Arch, mindful of the usual and tried to find something different or at least something less common. My dad would not have been able to make the pre-dawn walk even though it was short. The mists gods were still with us, but it was about 11 AM. Thank goodness for the lower angle of the sun in winter! I was tempted to doctor up a conventional shot to create an artificial dawn just to see if I could get it by some of you ;)
These are the first in a few compositions and I would value feedback.
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Well done on both accounts, David. I wouldn't have guessed Mesa Arch right away, so you have achieved one objective (but, then again, I've never been, although I've seen hundreds of the "standard" view).
You have also created dynamic images with lots of movement, texture and 3-dimensionality. With the cloud and orientation of the first photograph, it really captures my imagination and gives me the feeling of the edge of the Earth or some great chasm.
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They are both much more interesting tto me than the standard shots.
In the first one, I especially like the way the arch is reaching toward that little group of trees on the right.
Excellent work.
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Nice.
I prefer the first one, find the second one a bit hard to navigate somehow.
Cheers,
Bernard
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Very nice David. Looks like the crowds bailed after the sun came up. Glad to see your father was able to make the hike! :)
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Very nice David. Looks like the crowds bailed after the sun came up. Glad to see your father was able to make the hike! :)
Thanks, and yes, he was SO glad he worked his way down there even though it took us awhile.
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My vote goes to the first one.
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It's refreshingly less common, David. I think you did what you set out to do.
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Something in addition. Again, hoping for different.
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Good foreground and mountian beyond. I wonder, are the line of clouds before the mountain twice dipping down and rapping themselves around bluffs to carve more arches?
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...are the line of clouds before the mountain twice dipping down and rapping themselves around bluffs to carve more arches?
Cool, aren't they?
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Something in addition. Again, hoping for different.
Great perspective, David!
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The clouds are a real boost. Great timing, David.
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** Standing. Applauding **
FINALLY different takes on an old warhorse, and interesting ones at that.
Well, well done.