Turkeith Station - Stock Grid and Entrance

Any comments & advice welcome.

Unos tonos encantadores.

For me it is a splendid, excellent image. Tones are great, composition grabbed my eye and the light has something magic. Congrats

The light is really magic, interesting composition

Good choice of the filter, superb photo. Congratulations!

Nice, well composed, and great warm colors.

Great colors great composition! congrats.

This is a great image, Matthew.

It has captured my attention for various reasons. First of all, after some deliberation, I'm still unsure which is the dominant entry point on this occasion.

Although the low altitude Sun is the main source of attention here, I'm also leaning towards the road as a prominent 'arrow' into the frame (compare A-B and A-B). Either way, both viewing points coincide at the far end of the track, after which, my eyes travel towards the highlights in front of the property wall (and then back to one of the starting points).

Secondly, the late light is absolutely superb and puts new meaning into the term "the golden hour". Furthermore, I'm engaged/entertained by the fact that we are looking at a double barrier, in the form of a cattle grid and two seemingly redundant gates. The latter is (obviously) only there for vehicular traffic. Easy access to Turkeith Station and easy access into the image on both counts...

Another feature that attracted my attention is the slight 'halo' effect, around the left hand side of the trees.

It is quite prominent in the thumbnail view, but becomes somewhat less obvious in the larger versions.

I was wondering if this could be due to a Shadow/Highlight adjustment in Photoshop, but I'm not sure if that is the case/cause.

Finally, I hope that other photo.net members are not viewing our recent exchanges as a mutual admiration sequence...

I genuinely appreciate your detailed critiques on some of my uploads and try to return some honest opinions on yours...

Peter, many thanks for your insight and constructive crit - most appreciated as any crit is. I took a series of frames moving about the stock grid left and right sides. The sun was sinking rapidly toward the cloud bank on the horizon so I was not even aware of the track leading out to the centre of the image so I must admit I fluked that compositional input, however, I take this lesson on board.

As for the halo effect - I was using a ND grad to try to keep the sky detail intact whilst allowing enough exposure onto the wall. Despite using a soft transition filter the tree tops were still under exposed but I only used the 'fill light' option in PS RAW converter which has never left a residual pixel margin halo like the less subtle shadow / highlight adjuster tool. I've checked the TIFF I saved before knocking out this jpeg uploder file and I see the same halo effect but much less evident in the TIFF. Perhaps it's a filter aberation - I use Lee filters so I'd cetainly hope it's not this........I also note that the clouds are rippled where they meet the tree tops and maybe this is an optical illusion? My only other thought might be that the halo is associated with reducing the file back to a downsized jpeg?

As for my comments on your images, i never comment on any image on P.Net unless I'm truly moved to do so. Although I may 'gush' it's always an expression of genuine apprecation of your work.

Cheers! M