"Loneliness"

Please your comments on composition, lighting, colours etc. Many thanks!

Interesting leading lines to the person, gives good dynamic and deept... unfortuantly alomost the whole impact is more or less ruined by the vast sky, neutralizing the dynamic at the ground.

I have a crop suggestion for you to consider. could also try cropping the sides(right

) more to fine tune it.

I like it. The sky and the sand are so immense compared to the man. I would call the picture: Solitude..

 

tnx 4 sharing /Juliana

Solitude... Sounds nice for this picture, thanks! To be honest, I hadn't that person in mind in front; he was just walking there... :-) In my own opinion I prefer the 50-50 air-sand; combined with the person right in the middle and positioned to the left of the picture. Thanks for these two comments!

solitude is good or any similar emotion, and u can't ignore the figure once in, especially that he's so clear.. instead, he became the focus of the photo and your desired scene became a background.. in the end, however it did transfer some strong emotion.. the sky colours are amazing too and yes it's better cropped but not that much.

okay I cropped half of the "top-air-part". Any better now?

Paul, the reason why i think a crop along my suggestion will work here, is because of the strong leading line from back towards and beyond that person. It could work with 50/50 split but then theese lines could not have been prominent at all.. they are forcing the attention to the lower areas of this shot, IMO making a wast sky useless.

I agree with the cropping suggestions. (did someone mention you should size your images much smaller?)

Okay, sorry Carl... I just discovered this site a week ago and posted some pictures for fun. But I'll think about that in future :-)

..but I think it will be much better with a different crop. I cropped it first and then realized that others have already done so.

 

Overall, I like it. Gives me the sense of vastness !

Hm people, you are making it more and more difficult for me! :-) Now I realy don't know which crop is best. I agree with cropping a lot of the sky, cause that is way too overwhelming. But I don't know what to do with the sand in the front...

Paul, they're both fine. At some point, it gets to be your choice. :-)

High Paul.

I like the way you use the "lines" and the atmoshere generally.

And of course the human presence.

But i have a small remark about the allocation between the sky and earth.

Personally I never devide the picture half to half and I use to give more space to the most interresting part.

I believe that in your case the upper part of the sky is "empty" contrary to the land space.

About this crop stuff, at this size i think all these people here are right except with the original it would look great printed big at A3 or bigger if your camera will allow it. Just my 2cents (how do i convert that to sterling?)

Hey Jon, that could be true. But only got 4.1 M pixels, so A4 would be max. I'll make a print of the orinal, and also my last cropped version.

Beatiful colors and magic moment!