Deadvlei - First light

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dionys

class(ic)

This picture does not have the usual virtues og fog and running hills of traditional landscape pictures. But it shows some of the best grafics I have seen for a long time. Congratolation.

 

Tommy

Congrats.

Simple, efectiva, con impacto.

Simply beautiful! Looks like a painting. Excellent colors. Best regards.

The wizard's eyes ~

thanks!!!

 

 

 

Tommy already captured my impression: this is a great graphic landscape.

This is great. Congratulations

Very simple but also very attractive. Nicely done! Regards Wendy

Another great one, simple shapes, only two complementary colors in good proportion for an excellent general balance, a superb work !

Fernand

Me transmite soledad total, magnificos colores y encuadre, enhorabuena.

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Well organized in the rule of thirds, the subject tree makes this photograph jump out and grab you, The strong horizontal lines of the framing continue on into the picture with the yellows, sepias and blue making a most interesting study. you are a master at desert photography. The colors on some of your desert shots in your gallery (well worth looking at, fellows and gals) make your images really pop.

 

Although I like to try to crop photographs into an "improved" presentation, I can see no way to make this photograph better. I love the colors, mostly solid colors, with little texture -- although there is some, enough.

 

It looks much like a modern painting as much as a photograph. I could see this image gracing the walls of my family room. I am totally impressed. And, congratulations to you and the elves for choosing this one for POW.

 

Willie the Cropper

I think this photo is well composed and the saturation is brilliant. However, there are a couple of things that in my opinion, detract from it. I find the tree in the center of the image to be either under-exposed or poorly processed. The fact that there is detail in the texture of the tree but is difficult to discern is distracting. I know that these particular trees are quite dark to begin with so it is a difficult subject, which leads me to my second critique. The photograph is derivative, I have seen very similar and some more creative shots of this particular grove in Namibia, including one on the cover of this months issue of Outdoor Photographer by Art Wolfe.

 

I took Mr. Tate's advice and looked at Moser's gallery and found it to be absolutely beautiful. There are other images of this grove that are very worthy of praise.

The presentation of this image is not good -- JPG compression artifacts and the image itself here, just 692 px wide, is too small at 38KB. Yes it's interesting and artsy as well as superbly composed, but lacking in presentation by its too-easily-fixed JPG flaws.

It suddenly attracts eyes to stop on it for a while, thats just it makes a Photograph.

I like it - 7/7

Composition is excellent. Very good use of light and colours. I feel the image is over sharpened as evident from artifacts.

It's very original. I like the composition. There's something that doesn't sit right. It seems a tad over-sharpened. But I think the appearance of the image is starting to look like a generated graphic as well

Love the colors and the lines. Very Pleasing. The dunes are very good at leading you eyes to the tree. My only criticism are the lighter lines at the edge of the border. These lines seem to stop my eyes from flowing off the border and into the image. Thanks for the work.

I think it would be more balanced to crop the left almost to the tip of the bright orange sand. This gives the

shape of the orange sand a greater impact in the composition and gives a more graphical look. After cropping,

the triangle shadows in the orange layer become interesting in their relative proportions. The long, bright

orange seems like an animal's tail and the shadow takes on an abstract shape as well.

 

I see 2 possible crops: the attached, and another with just a little bit more cropped off the left, which would

completely center the tree. Centering the tree would work in this photo because there are balancing elements

that are not centered, but rather dramatically off center.

Normally I don't like to comment about cropping. In this case though I do agree with David Roossien. However I would go further perhaps and crop off a little more of the foreground to intensify the graphic element. To me this picture is about graphics.

That crop diminishes the dynamics of the original composition, which is the strongest attribute of the image... t

Congratulations, a very interesting picture: well composed. The contrast of colors is excellent!

Tom, I'm interested. How does the crop diminish the "dynamics of the original composition"? Maybe there's

something you see that I don't. Thanks!