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Fog on the Sandia Peak. The trees on the ridge looked like silent

sentinels awaiting the upcoming storm. Please critique.

That's nice... nice black and white tone and good framing with all that space, that gives the feeling of beeing lost in the fog.

The black frame is great, but the little frame between the black one and the photo, I think it would be better if it was only a simple white frame.

Cheers ;)

The subject is very good, but I feel it would be a much better picture with a very slight framing.

Jednom recju SAVRSENO.

7/7!

this is art. given the same scene, i would never have thought to compose it the way you have here, and man does it work!

7/7

 

-Anish

Loveley crop.Very nice image.

bonita toma.

I think the border should be bigger.

I like the look of the wind blown trees with the snow. I think your border is a bit on the large side though.

beautiful minimalism and winter scene!

Biliana

This is very nice! There is a wonderful movement to this composition. The tones are handled very well.

I agree: Nice tones, and I think the upper right corner could even be printed down a tad, and it would still be good.

 

Seems to me, the mood of the trees is pessimistic, while the gradual movement of the tones from left to right is optimistic. Together, this balance neutralizes the feeling of the picture, in my opinion. The optimisitic progression is not strong enough to outweigh the pessimistic anchor of the left side, and I don't think any more brightness would do the trick, assuming one wanted an optimistic outcome. With a darker, just slightly darker, right side, the mood would stay somewhat pessimistic across the composition, which, although negative, would be stronger as a message. A square crop would do the same thing without any tonal changes.

 

I'm not sure of the black matte, either. It's massive, but it keys to the tree trunks very nicely, and I like that. Its size tends to diminish the subject, though, I think, but, I'm not sure. Further study is required

 

I notice also the gray interior matte seems uneven. The side margins appear larger than the top and bottom margins. Maybe it's an illusion, I don't know.

 

Nit picks. Still a wonderful shot.

Ok, after further study, I believe the shot picks up wonderful strength by reducing the crop, closing in on the trees in a more convential 8x10'sh to almost square crop. Not knowing your intentions, as I look at this, my eye wants to leave the picture and wander over to the right. In fact, as I gaze at it, that's where my eye ends up, over on the horizon in the white near-void. Maybe that's what you wanted, and that's fine. From an academic point of view, meaning, for the sake of argument, to keep the eye, and the viewer, within the trees, where there is so much mood, (and where memories are likely to reside) I think the right side might need to make the ultimate sacrifice.

 

Also, the gray matter is uneven by a ratio of nearly 2:1

 

This is a beautiful picture and I hope you don't mind me exercising so much conjecture. If it were mine, I'd want to squeeze every gram of power out of it that I could.

On the other hand, there is a particular tension to the composition you've posted, here, between the white void and the first tree...

Wow, thanks for the comments and ratings.

 

I DID try a more conventional crop that focuses more on the trees. It just didn't do it for me - the tension that I feel every time I look at the picture would be gone.

 

I even tried a wider crop (well, not really a crop, more of an extension to the photo), with more white space to the right. Again, it didn't feel right. Trees somehow looked lonely, as if their battle was already lost.

 

I just kept going back to the crop presented here. Somehow the tension between the trees and the white space feels just right - nobody is winning but the battle is obviously about to begin.

 

Or maybe I'm just partial to the shot as I originally took it. The way you see it here it is just how I took it - nothing was cropped from left or right, just from top and bottm.

I hear you! After all my explorations with this, I did come to understand the crop you chose. I'm glad to read that I am not alone in struggling with nuances of composition.

Perfect in everyWay!

no need to be explained, just to be ejoyed!

loe it7/7

forest cryo, magic

I'm stunned by the beauty of this photo! Simple, yet striking! This shot should grace a museum's walls. Super-well done! Honestly, it's one of the most incredible photos I have ever seen in my 48 years. 7/7!!!

Wonderful picture . Congratulations !

 

Regards Dan