steven_clark

Wasssssupppppp!

All I can say is I have this sudden urge to start singing "I owe my sould to the company store".

It helps that the motion blur makes the child look superhumanly hyper.

Hmmm. Unfortunately I think if I did that it would be a very differently composed picture. The bush on the right would cover up the windows on the right side of the house along with most of the other items on that side of the picture. The trees on the left edge would slip further off the picture or have a significantly different depth if they remained. The path to the door would become central in the picture and lead the eye directly to the door making the door much more the primary subject.

 

It wouldn't neccesarily be a worse picture but it would be different. Still you've got me thinking. I may try to replicate the picture with that suggestion in mind and see what turns out.

 

Certainley this one is a bit more leasing to me than my other version of this scene. I ended up witb more trees at different depths, but with the trunk of the larger of those 4 right in front of the door.

I don't think being off center is that much of a bad thing. It helps the eye get an impression of depth this way. If anything the text being ever-so-slightly off balance attracts the eye to it as your brain sees that something is not quite right, but nothing really looks wrong when you look directly at it.

Since I haven't really gotten so much as ratings on most of my photos

I decided to give the critique request system a try. Here's a

selection from my most recent batch.

 

In a pretty upscale neighborhood filled with fairly large old homes

with immaculate landscaping this one seems to stand out as one of the

best. It manages to be noticed simply because it is NOT trying to

shout its presence to the world as a status symbol for its owner.

It's the antithesis of the "front lawn" approach to residence

landspacing.

How did you get that close? How did you get them to LET you get that close? It's still very, very cool, but I think you're nuts.

Is that the thing you see on the northern route into Estes Park? I think I've seen it before if it is, though I'll admit you caught it at the perfect time.

Great pic of exactly what gothic architecture was designed for: light!

I think it's just fine, and certainly has the cute factor going for it. Looks what I'd expect to see as a print sample for a consumer Epson or HP printer. It shows what is possible with a good snapshot.

Now I want to see that in a meteorology textbook someday. They always tell you that tornadoes start out horizontal between two wind layers before breaking down. I'm not sure if that's what's happening here but it sure looks like it! One of those events that I never thought was possible to photograph. Dang that looks sweet.

Sorry, overshot Colorado. It's fixed now.