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Taken around 7 o'clock in the evening. Any constructive criticism

welcome

This photograph pulls me into it strongly, giving a great sense of space. Your choice of lighting was excellent, and you've rendered wonderful color contrasts. My eyes thank you!

 

--Bill

this photo has an amazing sense of depth. The colors are suprisingly vivid, considering the potentially mundane atmosphere. You have really done a great job with everything concerning this photo.

Phil-

 

Echoing previous comments, through your choice of lens and thinking through the composition, what could have been a "nothing" shot, really came through. How about some technical details?

 

Great job, Phil

 

Ben Graham

Phil-This is one of the best shots I've seen on this site. You really did a great job. The previous comments have expressed my thoughts well (and more eloquently than I could have). I love the position of that fence post to the left--it seems like I could reach over and touch it. If you don't mind, could you please let me (us) know what lens you were using? This is a great example of the pictures I want to learn to take and I would appreciate the opportunity to learn from you. Thanks!

Tough I like the image as such, I personally feel it is rather overrated. In my humbble opinion it does deserve a 4 or a 5 for easthetics (in my book that is) a 6 or a 7 seems highly exagarate. please let me explain this statement.

What I like best about the image is the sky. It has dark colors it has some blues and some white all together the perfect ingredients for a dramatic sky. Combined with the foreground and middleground it gives this enormous depth into the image.

What is a nice touch as well is the low light that is coming in from the photographers left back (at least that would be my best guess).

The things that I think could be different to improve the image is the compositions of the foreground and middleground composition: the foreground is for me too much on the edge of the image. The fence runs all the way back but does not "connects" with the trees in the background. so there is this wide gap between the foreground elelemt an the background. personally I tink that if the fence was more to the right in this iamge and the point where the fence reaches the horizon/edge would be more near to the trees there would be more kind of a harmonie and smooth transtion between foreground and background.

Hope this comment is taken as constructive critism, because it's ment to be.

 

cheers,

 

MArc

How do you make something stand out from the ordinary? We all appreciate natural beauty every day with the eye, but I have found it a real challenge to reproduce that feeling in print. I think you have accomplished the task here. What really caught my eye was not the brilliant lighting or the helpful sky but the peculiar horizon. It gives the photo that critical feel of three dimensions, often lacking in prairie landscapes. I like the helpful foreground, and the distant trees partially connected. I'm not sure you could have positioned yourself to better connect all of this for a smooth transition front to back. Well done.

Very nice photo, Phil. Do you use tone mapping? 7/6.

Thanks to everybody for taking the time to comment on the photo, it's much appreciated. In answer to some of the questions raised.

 

The picture was taken with a Canon EOS 1D MkII with a Canon 17-40mm F4 lens. I used a polarising filter on eht lens at an aperture of f22 and a shutter speed of 1/25 sec. It was shot in RAW at ISO 200 with the lens set at 17mm.

 

The only changes made to the picture were to adjust the levels, up the saturation and then some dodging and burning to assist the contrast. There was no tone mapping used.

 

Regards

Good observation and capture of the converging lines. Nice composition of the vanishing point. The colour saturation is appealing too.

Beautiful shot...

The light is so seductive... it draws me into it's charm! The POV is so perfect for the colors of the sky and earth to meet. Wonderful capture, wonderful image!

 

deb

The image has a 'feel like you are there' feel to it. The composition is good. Golden hour lighting. Very nice way to present simple terrain features.

Very nice photo

 

Molt bona foto!