boyd_hobbs

I made some changes based on feedback. And tried to get a bit more latitude into the picture.

I know you where using a longer lens to avoid being disrupting, but it feels very distant. Being closer and getting a foreground, middle, and background would have certainly helped organize the path of the eye, and made it more relatable and dynamic.

Also, there is something funky going on with the horizon line. That pillar in the middle is definitely not straight up and down. I think you chose to go on the straightness of the that floor lip. Feels weird.

I agree with Arup. My eye is pushed to the man, and I am frustrated when I can find out who he is. But perhaps, he isn't anyone special, then you made the best out what you had.

I like it though regardless.

YES! Scrolling through, I was beginning to think people had forgotten what a portrait is.

I look at this photo, and I know so much about this man.

Excellent, excellent, excellent.

The tones and contrast are great. Especially the 2/3rds light crossing his face.

Why This Photo Is Great!
Directional movement of clouds
Star pattern on sun
Color, but not over saturated sunset
The HUMAN element is present
Foreground leads you to to the backround
The square crop
And you broke the rule of thirds in classy fashion.

This is the perfect use of the black and white medium. DETAIL! The detail is just astounding.

Let me list why this is great:

The square crop.

The bird is dynamic.

Who cares that the horizon isn't strait, the bird makes it work wonderfully.

Foreground background balance.

Sailboat in the hole.

Background is perfectly out of focus (just enough to bring you back to the net).

No blown highlights.

Every stop on the zone system is present and accounted for x10.

Oh yeah, and detail, detail, detail!!!

no. the lines in the image clearly lead you to the silos.

your eyes have probably seen the image enough to where you can roam freely, but I didn't even notice the trees at first. When I did, they helped me envision mountains beyond the clouds. Now I wish there was a little more of the mountains to see.

Perfect use of foreground, middle, and background. Classic and solid.

You processed it well also, I see detail everywhere. It pure eye candy!

First, I'd loose the beveled edge and drop shadow. Every dignified photograph can stand without the special effects.

Now that that's out of the way, bravo. This is an excellent example of heavy and effective processing. It almost looks like a painting, and while there are many photos that have that effect, few actually use it to enhance the subject matter. Usually it only distracts. This does not. It is a very additive effect that matches, the subject, the lighting, and the composition.

Congrats. Now about that bevel…

Great composition. Powerful story that is told. Leaves us thinking.

Perhaps a bit over-processed in editing? There seems to be a lot of detail lots in the whites. For example, around the GAP logo, it looks compressed. The window also seems to be glowing in a weird way, like soft effects was only added it it.

Maybe it's just the compression on the web jpg. Anyway, it's great.

The contrast between the old and the young is immediately compelling.

It seems to lack sharpness, but that could be the compression.

While it is certainly a great photograph, I don't think it is on the level of most of your pictures in your photo.net portfolio. Your others are much more compelling.

To me, the wide angle distortion works against the photograph, the mountain on the left is domineering, the bricks in the bottom right distract, and the half-way horizon feels stagnant (and I'm not a huge rule of thirds guy).

The photo you have in your portfolio of simply the the two boats is way better.

Perhaps if you cropped it a bit on the top or bottom to lead the eye up or down. And if you get really daring, maybe stretch it lengthwise.

Sometimes I stretch out my landscape panoramics to counteract the distortion. And half the time, it works.