Seduction of the light

Having walked in the forest for the whole afternoon trying to capture

scenes of fall, I shot this one last. Any thought? Comments and

ratings are appreciated. Thanks!

This is a great photo i really like.

The perspective is very good :)))

 

Wow! This picture's 'phat'. I love the lighting around the man in the picture; it gives the illusion that he was cut and pasted into the picture...however his shadow reveals he was definately there. I also like how the lighting creates a misty look in the distance. :)

The contrast, the color, the lighting and the fraiming, some how looks like a stage scene, too attractive to be real. I can only say, fantastic shot!

Wonderful shot! Very dreamy. I think I would crop the bottom up to the edge of the brown leaves. It would give more emphasis to the girl and you won't be losing anything that contributes to the image.

Nice composition with shape and lighting. Maybe just a little too much dead space, though....

Well composed and somehow dramatic picture, Yang.

Some white dots (?) over the lady's figure could be removed.

The light is a little bit harsh for my taste but here it works. Blago

A wonderfully done photograph, Yang. The light and the mood are perfect. It's nice to see how you enjoy taking pictures in the country where I grew up.

I like the photo, and the use of the shadow to add perspective. However, if the person was further away from the hedge (farther down in the lower left, for example), he/she would have somewhere to go in the photo. As it is, it looks like he/she is trapped. You would have to balance this with losing some of the shadow and it's perspective. . . .

Beautiful. The only thing I might change is how the woman's shadow merges into the shadow of the tree. If it was separate, and it was almost all the way into the lower left corner, it would be perfect, because you'd have a single visual line of the woman in the upper right to her shadow in the lower left.

Greg,

I understand your point very well, since Ive heard it for the third time (not only on this site). Actually, Ive got another shot of this scene that might correspond to your suggestion, and I had a hard time to decide between the two. Here it is for discussion/comparison. I think the latter is better enjoyable as a poster, and the former is suitable for online presentation, (i.e. for viewing on computer screen).

Note, replace standard.jpg with orig.jpg to see the image in a larger size.

http://www.fototime.com/269923916AD5C57/standard.jpg

Hm... I think I actually like the second one better. In this case I think the long forground helps the image and contributes to the feeling of distance from the subject. The light source is better defined in the upper right corner and the whole image seemed to be more... concentrated? In this form, it reminds me a lot of one of my own: http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=443402, so I'm not exactly unbiased.

Mark, thank you for your comment! I have just viewed your image quickly, the walking little boy, highly interesting, very lovely. I guess the point focus exactely on the boy might be achieved by retouching, or am I wrong?

Thanks. My aperture was at f1.8, which gives very little depth of field. A lot of what I do deals with isolation, so it fits well.