Trim

I need your open and honest feedback :)

Hah, these pictures makes me smile. When people take pictures of things that you see everyday, but someone takes a good picture of it. =) Well done. I like this one, simple but it has this nice calm feeling in it.

The trunk in the foreground gives depth to the shot, but for my personal taste I am not sure about the blured background here, might be some more DOF would help.

Michele, thanks for your comment. Here I was indeed experimenting with a shallow depth of field (which I normally do not use for landscape photography).

I had seen some interesting work around PN (as specified in the technical details) and I was trying to reproduce something similar. Overall, although this shot is not receiving an enthusiastic response in the critique forum, I am pleased with the result and I think I will experiment more in the future (maybe also playing with the aperture to see how the things change).

"although this shot is not receiving an enthusiastic response in the critique forum"

 

I keep away from that place because it generally doesn't appreciate work like this since it's not pretty, cute, cuddly, or colorful. But it is interesting. Two things that would have been on my mind when shooting this: The horizon and where it breaks the main subject, and the slice of road on the right. I am not saying they are placed wrong in your photo, just that I would have been very aware of where they were placed. Unless I were dozing during the exposure, as has been known to happen. Your horizon breaks across the top of the trunk. It could have been placed against the sky by lowering your camera, or more against the dark woods by raising the camera. The road could have been eliminated by camera to the right, or it could have transected the trunk by moving to the left. So, lots of possibilities.

 

Is transected a word?

Is transected a word?

Don't ask me, but if it existed it would come from the Latin, and as such I think I know what you mean....

You make two interesting points about the road and the placement of the horizon, to which I had not paid attention yet (let alone while I was shooting). This was shot at the (Italian) eye level, more or less, so, the only feasible alternative vertical placement would have been down (top trunk in the sky). I cropped from the left, so there's nothing more on the right than this in the original scan as far as the road is concerned. As usual, food for thoughts from your side (by the way it's dinner time here, gotta go....)

Hi! First of all I like the textural work: it's very good, regardless of having to look at it through a computer screen. About the horizon line: it does break the image into two quasi-halves, which is not really great: imo you either have to have two exact halves - so that people can criticize and say 'you must not' - or just totally stray away from that kind of simmetry. I find distracting that tiny bit of white in the background on mid-right. Overall it's a very good shot, the tones are good and the subject placement is very good too, and the choice of a square framing absolutely pertinent.