Winter Sunset

Thank you if you would spend a little time to watch this photo and leave me a

sincere comment or a critique to help me growing as a photographer.

Ottima composizione verticale, perfetta esposizione e toni! (7/7 a.)

Great photo, with wonderful presentation. Wonderful color and lighting!

Hi Alberto

 

Very nice scene. Simple, but pretty effective, however it's quite hard to state whether this is winter time or not :)

 

Good overall exposure handling and very pleasant pastel colors.

 

When it comes to your composition I have some doubts about it. Have you considered square cadre (i.e. cropping most of the sky part) ?

 

At the moment the Sun is so dominant that the upper part is somewhat distracting.

 

See the attachment with my suggested crop

 

Cheers

 

Piotr

 

Hi Piotr,

thank you for your constructive comments. I thought it was clear that this photo was taken on winter time, because of the bare trees and the overall cool tones, but maybe it's not too obviuos ;-)

Unfortunately you attached the original image and not the cropped one but I understood your opinion (is it something like the attached file below?): I admit I thought about cropping the upper part of this image, but finally I did not for several reasons. I generally don't like the crops that modify the original aspect ratio (3:2 in this case) of the image, since I compose it on the field arranging the visual elements in function of the viewfinder aspect ratio. For this shot I finally went to a vertical composition because I wanted to show a wide portion of the color gradient of the sky and because I found interesting the black silhouettes of the braches against the blue sky...

In this case I think the image works in a square format, as well and your opinion is right.

Regards, Alberto.

Hi again Alberto

 

Sorry for that - I must have chosen a wrong file when uploading and didn't check it after wards. "Mea culpa". Your crop is exactly what I had in my mind. I understand your reasons behind leaving the original composition. I simply prefer the square one much more :)

 

Cheers

 

Piotr

Il sole che fa capolino sul bordo sinistro e' un'idea geniale! Cosi' la foto diviene originale e davvero particolare....7/7! Salutoni