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Walking uphill


alberto.conde

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The photo looks washed out. If you include less sky and picked a point to focus on, you can improve this photo greatly.
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i agree the sky is washed out, but it's a tricky lighting situation. any darker and the ground and walker would lose detail. but because it's so light, the sunset doesn't have the typical intense color one has come to expect in photos.

 

also, the horizon is dead smack in the middle, so i'm not sure what i'm supposed to look at.

 

what might have worked better is if you'd been on the other side of the road, and caught the walker as a silhouette against the sky. then the sky could be exposed properly (i.e. darker) and the walker would be in complete shadow, outlined against the sky). hard to say as i wasn't there.

 

i like the light through the clouds! that perhaps should have been the subject matter, moving it a little to the right and tilting up a bit. on the other hand the walker is a decent 'phoney subject' and provides interest.

 

tough one. might have to consider it as one of those pix that was *almost* the right moment, but didn't quite cross over into the realm of the sublime.

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Yo creo que esta es una de esas fotografias en la que se debe romper con las reglas, el horizonte esta justo donde da un equilibrio tremendo a la foto; desplazarlo hacia abajo dejaria demasiado espacio de cielo sin una gran informacion y al contrario, el caminante (creo que Pepa), perderia su protagonismo al quedar perdido en el fotograma. El quitamiedos iluminado dirige la mirada al interior de la foto, nos hace pasar por el sujeto principal y se pierde en la distancia siendo un efectivo punto de fuga para la foto. Me gusta tal cual Alberto. Un cordial saludo.
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I think the cloud pulls your eye away from the subject. The crop improves the composition, creating a balance betweeen the far mountain, grass, and pedestrian. I also took the liberty of adjusting shadows/highlights to add a bit of detail. What do you think?

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That's the crunch of the crop... And the subject was the castle, but set in the territory it dominated.

In this context the pedestrian adds the human touch and, in a sense, the memory of those serfs that lived under the suzerainity of the castle's lords -in this particular case, the Master of the Knights of Saint Jacques-. The cloud sort of points to the castle as it does the road downhill.

You see, Carl, while paying a lot of attention to your input (I wouldn't do otherwise, specially coming from you), I also want to explain the reasons for my composition because, in my photography, composition is a carefully thought about must which I do not leave to impulses.

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I don't mean to imply that your composition is merely an impulse. I would say, however, that if I have chosen the wrong subject, then perhaps you haven't defined it for me clearly enough.

 

I don't read the clouds as pointing at anything, but see them primarily as a bright element on the edge of the picture frame. The same is true of the woman who is walking out of the picture on the other side. That leaves us with a rather small hill and/or structure in the middle. The locations of these three elements within a picture frame do not usually lend themselves to a balanced composition.

 

What I am saying is that I'm reading this strictly from the standpoint of how the human visual system responds to this image. Although I can appreciate why you may want to include various elements from the standpoint of meaning, it's hard to communicate that meaning if the arrangement of elements don't support it.

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Let me apologize, first, for the misunderstanding I have created. I wasn't upset at all by your comment. On the contrary, it's through discrepancies and arguments that I refine my skills (if any) and you provide me with valuable arguments.

You see, that day a took a number of shots there (for an article that was published recently on the castle routes of that region. Two of them have been uploaded recently (they are in the album Newest Uploads) but they didn't represent the majesty and power of that mighty castle with a long history of fights behind it dating back for over a thousand years. In the attache file you can see another one taken minutes before this shot of the woman walking uphill.

Thanks again, Carl, for your time and the effort to comment on this humble and unpretentious shot.

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A mi me gusta la original como esta, en primer lugar al suprimir las nubes resta equilibrio a la composicion ya que estan en diagonal con la paseante lo que le aporta dinamismo, en segundo lugar me parece mas intereante que la se�ora este perfilada por la luz a modo de silueta que con detalle. IMHO el crop le quita toda la magia a la toma, dejandola en una foto mas perfectita y convencional. En cambio los matorrales del primer plano creo que ganan con la luz que Carl les ha sacado.

Alberto me gusta un montonazo

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Alberto, some interesting comments. For myself I think your original upload works better than Carl's version as the woman and road are in shadow. I have tried a version where the shadow detail is brought out only in the trees and bushes by the side of the road. This introduces to me a sense of the separation and unity between ancient and modern. Not sure whether this is better or worse but it has provoked an interesting discussion!

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Alberto, I like the attachment a lot.

 

At times like this, I think it would be interesting to have an image considerably larger than the one uploaded that would be offered for the expressed purpose of asking people to compose their own version by severly cropping it. All efforts would be anonymous, of course.

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Actually, the original slide is as Colin have done it, with the woman and road in deeper shadows. I burst it up a bit, but according to Pepa and to you, that is not the way the image looks better.

Carl suggests an interesting idea. I might consider uploading larger images as I used to do when I started in PN. But I'm concerned about the pilferage of my images by the passer-byes, something that people seriously interested in photography, as are all of you -my friends-, wouldn't do... but PN is getting crowded, more and more, with lovers of tits and butts!

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Ya ves, esta foto te descubre en tu ignorancia fotográfica... Cómo se te ocurre darle dos 6 si el resto de sabios fotógrafos le han otorgado una media que no llega al par de cuatros...?

Ay, Photo.net! Porqué te quiero tanto?

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