surrounding charlottesville: random scenes Twisted Trees In Rain Soaked Cow Pasture, Route 618, Palmyra, Va, #0720098, February 27, 2007, 7:42 am

Good one Doug!

Would it be better if there were more space between the tree and the

sun?

It really is hard to know precisely whether there should be more space between sun and tree without actually seeing it.

 

One has to keep in mind that on a thumbnail first sort of exposition as in Photo.net one gets an entirely different 'view' of things than if one were walking through a gallery or a museum.

 

A photo on Photo.net has to 'grab attention' immediately or get passed over, and so vital things must sometimes (oftentimes) be truncated, so a photo of the sun nearer the tree may get noticed (on PN) while placing the sun farther away may not get noticed so much. The fact is, if one were walking in a gallery, one might want the sun farther away and be able to 'see' and 'feel' the distance between the sun and tree, but who am I to write this? Just one person, I'm afraid, but I know the exigencies of 'thumbnail posting' a little.

 

So, my preferences when shooting something like this would be to shoot it two different ways -- one for thumbnail exposition (tree and sun closer together) and also to experiment a little and place the tree and sun at increasing distances, then to print out large (or larger) and see what grabs the eye.

 

This is a case where good old-fashioned experimentation may be what's required (of course not in this case, but the next time you shoot -- landscapes afford an opportunity to shoot more than one way, and why not use them -- and, just like in shooting 'one' portrait from a 'portrait shooting' one can then pick 'the best' (for the particular purpose).

 

Nice photo too.

 

(Not rated - I seldom rate and then only within certain genres)

 

John (Crosley)

Thanks Bente!

and Thanks John. I did just that and will post a version with more distance forthwith.

Wonderful shot Doug. Great composition and very nice the atmosphere.

It looks good to me. I might have tried to get separation of the branches LHS, but that is my own fetish. It is a lovely moody atmosphere.

Thanks. I posted a companion piece in the same folder, taken 9 minutes after this one, and a little further away.

There's something special in this one that the other two don't have, IMHO.

Compositionwise and the atmospher here, are my favorite of all the 3 images.I think that the way you have cropped it here makes it so special from the others..

Thanks! I'd have replied sooner, but my fingers are sore from too much photoshopping.