Windmills in Campo de Criptana-IV

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Fantastic shot!

Always an impressive perspective. The halo around THE windmill is rather jarring. Composition wise, this isn't all it could be. The background windmills seem arbitrarily cut off. A little more image at the bottom would have helped immensely, I think.

 

You might want to think about black and white with this one. I could take or leave the colours, but it's the structure of the windmills and blades that seem to be emphasized here.

 

cheers.

Aaron

Including just 1 cm at the botton to see some more of the distant windmills would be better. But I remember there were a lot of people that evening, so maybe this is the solution.

 

Very impressive, the point of view enhances the "power" of the windmill so well...in BW, as suggested, can also be very interesting.

Me gusta el encuadre que da esa sensacion de poderio e inmensidad. El cielo como siempre magnifico.

La que mas me gusta. Cielo y molino como si fuera otra foto de castillos.

Impessive framing and perspective and angle that you have chosen.

 

Beautiful.

Esta es arrebatadora !! Absolutamente maravillosa la perspectiva de el gran gigante junto a los hermanos enanitos.

A great idea - I like all the little mills in the background. Nice detail of the stonework and a magnificent sky.

Very good choice of camera point and perspective. Maybe Aaron is right with the distant mills, not sure. Difficult backlight, masterfully exposed (and dodged the mill a bit, I guess ?)

regarding the distant mills is just a matter of the real mills being so close that I couldn't, in spite of using a 18 mm lens equivalent, include them wholly. And I want them in. They give us perspective and sense og group, I believe.

And, Carsten, yes. The foreground mill is a bit dodged.

De las tres esta es mi preferida y creo q la mejor si cortaras por encima de la puerta eliminando los otros molinos.

Tambien esta es muy buena y difiere de las anteriores en el color del cielo.

Alberto, I like the empowering mill, ballanced nicely by the blue sky.You see the scale of close and far away. Good wide angle shot.

Very boring. not much detail and bad compostition. these look more like snap shots with a digital camera than thought out.

... but you are wrong. Totally wrong. These are shots very thouroughly thought about and extremely carefully composed. You may not like it. I can't pretend to convince everybody. But what I can tell you is that those shots are extremely far from being "snapshots".

Perhaps because of that, an editor -probably much less artistically and intellectually educated than you- decided to pay for it and publish it. But, of course, they are Japs, those that edited it, "weird" people...

And, please, don't offend the "snapshooters" of this world using the term as a derisive comment. Snapshots are, as well, to be respected, IMHO.

I'll go, now, with due awe and respect, to pay a visit to your portfolio. I'll take, first, a note pad to carefully jot down notes of all the lessons that its contemplation shall reward me with, I'm sure.

Here I go!

Photo.net has to celebrate!

We have a learned new member, Mr. John Resner, aimed a helping us in improving our photography!

Now, Master Resner, since my trip to your portfolio has proved fruitless, would you, please, be more specific with your "critique". As it stands now, your comment does not help me in improving my lack of composing abilities.

Would you, please, explain to me some basic lessons?

Try to make an effort and descend to my humble level, please, when doing so...

Maybe I can turn this in a positive direction....

 

I agree about the including the bottom 1cm ... but really didn't see it until I read the comments. I like the perspective here ... very unique. I love what you can do with a very wide lens. I'm going to really experiment with mine this summer.

 

How DO you always get these fabulous skies?????

Alberto, I think Pnina's comment was perhaps most insightful - what really makes this image standout is the composition, with the three windmills in the lower left contrasted with the one in the foreground. Really superb thought process. This image might make an excellent B&W too. Have you tried? Best regards, Chris