The Colours Of Spring/Autumn IV

This has some of my favorite components, fog, shadows and backlighting. My photos, however, never achieve the delicacy of this image. Love the simplicity and composition. I can imagine that this opportunity disappeared very quickly. Good job to be there and capture it.

Fabulous light and excellent composition. The two long shadows leading up to the trees are remarkable and really finish off this composition. Beautiful spring or autumn!

Splendid lanscape whit excellent light!

Extremely well done!!! Frame it!! No Velvia - what a pity....

Well spotted, great composition, beautiful tones, who needs Velvia for such subtle colours, shadows make this shot a great one.

you did it . thank you for posting it here . great composition and lighting , what can i say .

Personally, I think this is a beautiful composition and I gave it a 6/6, but it lacks a little punch that I think could be found with a simple level adjustment. PS- I'm thinking autumn, the trees are bare.

WOW...Great composition.

very nice lightning... feels so fresh I as shaking with cold and wish to be there...

i like this picture alot, it really puts me in a mood, like a pleasent dream...

however, the bottom highlighted line in the grass is a bit distracting for my taste. how about cropping the bottom third ?

really nice, keep em' comming !

Beutiful shot, I would consider cropping the the bottom shadow area out.

This photo has terrific texture. I also love the 3D element. It has great depth and it's clear there are many layers to this photo visually. Nice job!

I love the mood! Wonderful!

Yes, Cropping...

 

I also thought about it. But when looking at the result, I found several reasons against it:

- lose of the foreground

- lose of the good placed diagonals (shadows)

- lose of deepness (from dark to the light)

- lose of the good position of the trees in the photo

 

It's a typical 'three element picture' (trees, shadows, hills). By cropping, the photo will become a 'two element picture'. And 'two element pictures' are as usual not so interesting as a 'three element pictures'. They are more calm and abstract (silhouttes).

 

Of course cropping is a possibilty but the result is another effect/message than in the photo above. So I let it as it is in the orginal colour slide.

I appreciate your arguement against cropping but IMO, cropping won't necessarily ruin the layers you created, in fact, it'll enhance the "interwoven" effect of the shadows. I'm a little distracted by that bottom portion. I don't think that element will make it lose dimension, if eliminated. Nice colors & comp. of everything else though!

Great light!Wonderful!!!

Gabi & Jeanette, thanks for your comments/analysis.

Outstanding image!

Nice light, nice curves. And the intersection of the shadows and the furrows is of the best effect.

This picture makes me think of two things...Bravo & Wow ! 7/7 !

Excellent take. I love the long shadows as they make the ground look like a patch quilt, due to the intersecting lines. Although compositionally spottles I am somehow distracted by the darker line at the bottom of the frame and I would remove it.

Bravo!Beautiful shot! There is only 1 thing distract me, the dark line at the bottom.

beautiful, but i think a bit more space on the top would work better