The shepard

I love this photo! Very, very beautiful!

I love this photo very much: firstly for the old painting look, and the way you have captured the lighting. Secondly for the way you have framed it, I am sure most of us would have choosen an horizontal frame but yours works so well!. Also by the way the man is possing, the mood... definetevely I like your upload much more than the suggestion uploaded, the grey sky at the top is needed to get that painting look. Congrats.

Foarte buna fotografia. Muntii sunt superbi.

Andrei

I think it is a beatiful shot just the way it is. It has great atmosphere, and at first I thought it was made with a traditional film camera using Provia or Velvia. To me it is a landscape picture, about the entire landscape, not just the sheep or shepard. I also love the mountains in the background and the tender way the shepard is feeding (or holding) the sheep.

Absolutely beautiful.

 

great picture, and leave the sky as it is now

excellent excellent excellent shot!!

I knew you would make it to the top! Very happy for you!

Take care

A nice shot! Congrats

Thanks for all!

love the heavy sky on those beautiful hills/mountains...and fascinating pastoral foreground...

Wonderful!

Floriana, it is a fantastic shot and you published it this way because that's how you made it in the first place. To all the others who advice you to change the effects, I would like to mention that cropping is the last thing you do. A good photographer will aim at a shot that is complete and needs no cropping at all. In other words, only if there was no possibility to make that 'perfect' shot ( e.g. a not straight horizon or so) one could think about cropping. In my opinion that's exactly the difference between a good photo and a less one. Once again: A perfect moody shot. Keep up the good work.

I think "shepherd" is the spelling. Anyway, this is a very pastoral scene - a classic theme that has been depicted in art, music, and literature for many centuries. The pastoral theme touches something deeply in many people across cultures. I find the composition very pleasant and like the lighting effects. This is serene, an image of nurture and safety in a world largely lacking such experiences.

It is a classic scene. The 3 divsions within is a good thing. Holds one's interest. Beautiful shot

Am I to believe that I don't have to spend $8000 for a new Canon to create such a wonderful story. This is shocking!!! For a mere $200 I might find the ability to be considered for POW. In other words I don't need to read every review praising the next "you gotta have camera" or I will never accomplish a feat as worthy as this picture of the week. My faith has been restored and no longer will I feel like an outcast with my older and much outdated equipment. That being say, Congratulations on a magnificent and well deserved "Picture of the week."

Further proof that it's the photographer and not the camera. Wonderful shot - great job. A little less sky might be nice, or the square crop demonstrated by another reviewer might improve an already excellent image.

The image is terrific as is. There is no need to crop or modify otherwise.

The shepard and the sheep are the subject of the image that convey emotion. The mountains provide the user with idea or the surrounding beauty, while the sky provides an element of danger, uncertainty. To me the photographer has managed to capture the emotions of shepard magnificently. In the photograph, the shepards attention and care is totally focused on the sheep in presence of such breathtaking beauty of the surrounding mountain side and in spite of facing possible thunderstorm.

Stunning, really! When saw this photo on the front page I thought it's painting from the bible. I go through photo.net gallery every now and again, there are not so many images that attract so much that I'd like to have them on the wall. This is one of such. Congratulations!

 

If you don't mind a little of critique, then I'd leave just very slightly more space in the right bottom corner. And delicate touch of soft highlights (not to increase contrast but just to bring the mood up) would make it ideal, pity one can't adjust weather.

 

Wonderful image!

The great thing about this photograph is that it has a number of additional photos built in to it. Many crops to this image would make good photos. Take the mountains alone with a small amount of sky, or take the lower portion of just the fields and sheep and shepherd, or from the bottom of just the mountains up to the top of the sky, or from the bottom to the just over the top of the mountains, or... well you get the picture (pardon the pun). Leave it as is and make some with some crops. All will be good when you have such a good image to start with!

 

Great work!

I noticed that fog obscures near hills more than distant hills. This implies a gap in the fog behind the near hills. This fog inconsistency is good, because it allows you to see more hills. Great Picture.

I think this is perfect, as is. I like the vertical look better than the more square crop as it gives more depth. The lighting is very pleasing. As for being divided too much, it held my interest totally, even though my eyes moved all over it. No part disappoints. Very nice composition and very worthy of POW.

I might consider some additional dodging and burning but I certainly would NOT crop the image. I love it just as it is! Lovely photograph.

This is a great image...it truly captures the moment...but, I would dodge the foreground and burn in the whiteness of the sky just a little. The brightness of the sky is too overwhelming and the eye is drawn there.

A little burning of the sky and this would be perfect technically (for me). I agree with those who said the brightness of the sky takes focus away from the subject to some extent. On the other hand, the image is able to communicate such a wonderful concept: The sheperd and his sheep and the environment in which they live. A perfect photograph combining the best in a landscape with a street shooting feel.

From one perspective the three parts of the image is a good thing that keeps us occupied. However, the eye naturally slips to the brighter section which distracts attention from the shepherd.

 

That I think is the alternate perspective -- the subject matter of the photo (maybe undeliberately) gets sidelined. The interaction of the three parts does not naturally end in solidifying the shepherd as the main subject, rather they end up portraying a country scene.

 

Consequently, depending on the purpose of the photographer the three part set up can be a good thing or not exactly as intended. Of course if it had been the latter, there are technical possibilites to foster it in the darkroom or on the PC.