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It's a really nice photo--very nice tones. If you want nit-picky advice I'd say that the sky could have used a few more clouds (not that you can order them up, just a wish), the lens is tilted down or you're getting wide-angle lens distortion so that the trees on the edges are leaning in. That might be correctible in PS.
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I love the tone of this one. I feel that a bit more depth of field is needed, though. If the near background grass and far post were more in focus, I'd like it more. -
It's a good photo, but I feel that you took in too much in the one photograph--it feels too complex to me. You might try playing with copping the photo in various places to see if you can some up with more simple compositions that enhance the fundamentally abstract nature of these forms.
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It's got potential. I think what I don't like about it is the tilted horizon/trees. I think if you straightened it up it would be more successful. -
Very nice. Maybe crop a little off the top, though, to give it a little better balance? Seems to me like it would fit better something like a 4:5 aspect ratio. -
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Beautiful!
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I think this is an good photograph. I love the subtle colors and subject matter. The only thing that bugs me a bit is that I think it may be too symetrical. Too much symetry can bore the viewer too soon. -
For me it's too long of an exposure--the water doesn't look like water any more. Try series 1/15-1 sec to see how each looks just for future reference. Otherwise it's a great composition. -
On the exposure time question: you should do some experiments to see what time differences look like next time you're at the coast. I was at Big Sur last Feb and did a whole series of exposures late in the day, from 1/60 to 30 seconds, as the light failed, so I'd have a reference of what water looks like at various shutter speeds. It's quite instructive. Also a friend I was with said for longer exposures it's also great to shoot when the water is flowing over the rocks after the wave breaks, but maybe you'd need a higher tide for that. -
I think this would have been better if you had not lined up the sun with the end of the house. The sun being anywhere else would have been better. -
I find it a nice image, but what bothers me a bit is that the bright bits in the water are as bright as those in the sky above--a situation that never happens in real life (no natural surface reflects 100% of the light that falls on it). -
Nice photo! The car tracks (or whatever they are) in the sand do not contribute to the image, though.
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irst, you might want to upload a smaller copy so people with laptops and smaller screens can see it all at once (a max of 600px on the longest side is good). It's a fine photo. Only thing might be to try to keep the distant clouds from going solid white on you.
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I think this is a fine photograph and is well balanced. Don't use graduated filters indiscrimiately--they often get used for no good reason, as a sort of panacea. This seems just right. The green is expressed as it would be in real life and not fake-looking as graduated filters often render a subject, i.e. too bright in the foreground. I like this photograph.
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Very nice phtoograph. I think, though, you could have saved some time by just buying a view camera and prnting it the old fashioned way (only sort of kidding). The composition is good, and I don's see anything blocked up, either dark or light, so you're OK there. Maybe if you do this sort of shot again, maybe try a second exposure at about 1/8 sec or so to soften the spray and water movement a bit, not that there's anything wrong with what you have here. Good job!
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Thanks for the update. Im also a Mamiya 7 user, which is why I noticed the lens thing. The 65mm is a great lens, no? I've only used Rodinal on 4x5, so I can't advise with 6x7. You might try D76 1:3 or maybe Xtol 1:1 to see if you can get good accutance, but less grain. Of course, I'd bet that on a real print the grain is less noticable--it might just be the scan that's accentuating the grain. Anyway, a wonderful photograph!
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I forgot to add that it's a nice photo. Keep taking pictures! -
The exposure is a bit of a problem. The trees are a totally textureless black which deadens the picture quite a bit. It looks lie you had plenty of room for more exposure, so you might want to work on that aspect of your photography a bit. The Zone System is very helpful.
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Nice photo. I see some dodging artifacts around the righthand tall tree. You should maybe try a different contrast grade or paper. -
Excellent! The photograph is quite striking and draws one's attention immediately. The only thing that I find a bit at odds with the overall feel is the graininess in the sky. What film did you use and how did you process it? Also, are you sure it was taken with the Mamiya 7 & 150mm lens? Looks more like a 35mm shot judging from the aspect ratio (also the grain might be explained by a smaller format camera). Not that it would matter, it's still a very nice photograph.
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I love hay bale compositions-they make such cool arangements (i'm in Minnesota). Nice photograph. Now for the critical part: Was the sky manipulated? Seems too much difference in brightness from the right to the left than one would encounter in nature (black skys are a bit disconcerting). Overall it seems a bit too contrasty (for my tastes), so I wonder if you added extra contrast. I'm conflicted about the dust cloud in the background. To me it seems a bit small to be a contibuting (rather than distracting) element of the photo, so I might have waited until the vehicle moved behing the foreground hay stack, or stopped. Good picture, though. I like it. -
Excellent photograph. This has a nice balance and is visially very interesting. One detail to correct would be to crop or spot out the little bit of black on the right edge that's a bit distracting. Otherwise it's very nice.
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