drewhendricks

Ouch! A 3 for originality. I have looked at a lot of landscapes and I have never seen one like this. I can understand dinging me on aesthetics, but I don't understand how this scene is unoriginal. To each their own I guess. That is the beauty of photography!

I am resubmitting this image in its original uncropped form. I posteda cropped version a few days ago. Since then I have begun to preferthe uncropped version. I was hoping to get feedback on which versionviewers prefer.

 

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I also had time to rework the curves to betterhighlight the distant hills. Thanks for your help,

 

Drew

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I too would like to see the highway lines highlighted more. I am always afraid of over processing, but in this case I feel it is warranted. Thanks for the advice. when I get the chance I'll go back to PS and attempt it.

Thank you all for your comments. Of the many times I have been to Borrego, this was the first time I had the chance to capture lenticular clouds. They were phenomenal. However, of all the images I captured, this eggshell one is my favorite and ironically not because of the clouds. You can kind of make out the two lenticualr clouds, but the ones in the other direction were astonishing. It just goes to show you that even if you think the most interesting subject is in front of you, it often pays to turn around.

Thanks Jim

Excellent Composition. Saw the thumbnail and had to click it. I mean this in the the best way possible. It reminds me of a Corona commercial. I feel that if the camera panned out we would see two people sitting by the water toasting their Coronas.

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Andrew, Looks great! Excellent Street scene. Now my attention is focused exactly where it should be. with the crop I now notice the two women. I like that all four people are in their own world carrying out their lives oblivious to one another. (Maybe the two women know each other)

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Andrew, Excellent capture! I would crop the image a bit tighter. Vertical Maybe. I also see a tighter horizontal with the left side cropped a bit. Same aspect ratio. I would also increase the contrast.

Thanks for sharing,

Drew

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Nick,

 

Excellent response. I agree with all that you have to say. It just demonstrates my point. There is no meaning outside of the human mind. There is only being.

 

Drew

Chuck, your comments helped a lot. I can easily fix the fill on the mailbox. I took a vertical image a couple of seconds earlier of the scene with the whole pole. Since the scene is more art than documentary I might try to add the top part with a composite.

 

However, I found out what bugs me the most about this image. I meant to use a rear synch, but in the heat of the moment I used a front synch. The blur is in front of the car. It looks like it is reversing. I'll chock this one up to learning. If only I had the top of the pole and the speed-light on the correct setting.

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Nick, I was at the Salton Sea the other day. This is a place in the desert of Calfornia that was created by the flooding of the Colorado river in the early 20th century. You can look it up, history is not the important thing. Anyway, the light was in such a way that I could not distinguish the sea from the horizon. I could find none.

 

I immediately thought back to your fixed point image. I then went to an image I captured on the hills driving into the desert. There were many footprints that obscured the trail. So many that somebody placed a vertical stick in the middle of the divide to show the way. Every footprint traveled the same route. However, the route was lost. Could it be that the deliberate intentions of humans on the whole are no better than the randomness of nature? If given a sufficient amount of time, I feel that there would be so many sticks showing the way that they would appear random, like the footprints.

On another note. Take a look at my image of the slot canyon. There are faces in the rock. Faces that only humas can project. Very similiar to a human declaring a fixed point. Nothing is fixed apart from the human mind.

Faces in the Rock

Jeri, I have been torn between the crop and no crop since I captured this image. Like a siren I was drawn to the ethereal hills. I frantically tried to find a foreground to highlight them. Many images later, this was the best shot. However, I tend to agree with you. I did too good of a job finding a captivating foreground. I'm going to go back an find a better foreground in my images, because in the Borrego cacti are a dime a dozen, but seldom have I had the chance to capture the mountains in such an ethereal light.

I don't usually take long exposure, saturated street shots. I am

curious to hear any thoughts on this one. the original image is much

more vibrant. For some reason when I upload the image to photo.net it

looses some of its vibrancy.

There is this rock about twenty feet offshore from Sunset Cliffs in San Diego that is frequented by birds. The name of the surf break out in front of it is Bird SH*#ts. At low tide it is possible to scale the rock. Every so often artists place their work up there. Usually it is no more creative than an old toilet. At one point there was a huge paper mache crab up there. Then there was this Pterydactl. He had already lost a wing by the time I got there. The storms have taken their toll and now he is just a head.

Kim, These owls are incredible. I had know idea they were there. I've got to get back out there and check them out.

Great shot. The amount of keepers I have shot on a tripod pales in comparison the amounnt I have from getting close to the ground.

Thank you all. It took awhile to find a line that truly captured the magic of this scene. My only wish was that there was branch in front of me and not a little stick. However, the branch probably would not have had the nice straw color, so I guess everything works out in the end.

Thank you all for your comments. You know you are having a good day when you receive an Ansel Adams comparison!