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10/23/2013 10:46:26 AM |
Originally posted by RyanW:
personally, the grass in front ruin the symmetry for me. i tried with a printscreen and cropped the image just above the grass and prefer that look substantially more. the grass draws your eye down to the bottom 10% or so of the image, and away from the mountain, which i think would be your primary subject based on the title.
there is sufficient evidence of the cold weather in the ice on the lake and snows on the mountain.
a 6 7 from me (after finishing and reviewing), though I could easily see voting higher without the grass |
Please refer to the comment below from  tvsometime. He explains well the need for the foreground grasses. It's a landscape photographer technique essential to add a sense of three dimensions. |
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10/23/2013 05:33:08 AM |
Congrats on your 6.x Richard! I feel that the some comments and low votes however were particularly insensitive and very judgemental. Sure; art, subjective, opinions, but book covers are seldom 100% accurate to the content within. There's a saying "Do not judge a book by it's cover" for a reason. So what if it's not Kilimanjaro, after all it's not a geography book or encyclopaedia challenge, it's a Novel challenge. Personally I'd have knocked off a point because it's not in portrait orientation...as demanded by the cover of a novel. This would have solved the grass issue :) Sadly I could note vote to make up for the trolls:
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10/23/2013 12:17:43 AM |
| Maybe "My Side of the Mountain" would have been a better title. ;=9 It's a greta scene. |
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10/22/2013 09:16:43 PM |
| Ah, the snows of the group of seven in the grand tetons. love the shoreline. the rest is a little ho hum at this size. 5 |
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10/22/2013 06:12:48 PM |
| Very beautiful and great for the book. My fav. |
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10/22/2013 02:06:00 PM |
personally, the grass in front ruin the symmetry for me. i tried with a printscreen and cropped the image just above the grass and prefer that look substantially more. the grass draws your eye down to the bottom 10% or so of the image, and away from the mountain, which i think would be your primary subject based on the title.
there is sufficient evidence of the cold weather in the ice on the lake and snows on the mountain.
a 6 7 from me (after finishing and reviewing), though I could easily see voting higher without the grass |
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10/22/2013 12:56:14 PM |
Nice photo overall. Maybe a tighter crop and some adjustments in the sky colors would have made this a better photo.
Gave it a 5 |
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10/21/2013 11:20:50 PM |
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10/21/2013 09:58:33 PM |
The natural lighting here is just so damn hard to capture. The picture is pleasing but stays in between being too muddy for a clear sky day or too brilliant for the mystery of the woods. This being said, I don't think that i would like to see it as a book cover or illustration of Hemingway's novel
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10/21/2013 06:51:44 PM |
Beautiful image... We're starting at 5 here because it's perfect as far as technicals go.
Now, the next 5 are based on fit. .. First, this isn't a classic novel, but rather a classic story. Ok. -1...
Now... The story is about a dying man, in Africa on safari... The mountain only comes in at the end, and he's on top of it.. Hmm.. You've got a mountain, and it did at least play in, but you're not on top of it, seeing the view I would expect the character in the novel to experience.
Out of the four possible points remaining, I can't see but to award a single point. It is a mountain, there was a mountain in the book.
It almost pains me, but this beautiful image is a 6 in this challenge. |
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10/21/2013 03:30:48 PM |
| 6...its nice. I love that little area to the left where we see the tree trunks and their reflection in the water. |
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10/20/2013 10:20:47 PM |
| Low energy landscape. The reflection makes the image too symmetrical. Symmetrical images are tedious to look at. 3 |
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10/19/2013 09:46:41 PM |
| Only that is not Kilimanjaro :-) I would have cropped tighter around the sunset / rise mountains tops. But that is just me. I feel that the dark area catch the attention way to much. 5 |
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10/19/2013 07:20:25 PM |
| As reflected in a Rocky Mountain lake :-) It's a very beautiful scene, and it benefits from the clean, understated processing. I'm not completely wowed by it, but I appreciate a good landscape shot, and I'm slotting it in my 7 group for now, pending later revision as I see more images. |
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10/19/2013 06:07:38 PM |
| Quite a nice image, but lacking in it's tie to the story. Feels like just a play on the title, and then a loose one as it's clearly not Africa. Would have scored it higher in a different challenge. 6 |
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10/18/2013 09:51:03 PM |
| Pretty scene, I like the shadow line dividing the peaks. The foreground treeline could have use a bit more definition (I find Nik software Viveza with control point great for this. So an inspired theme from the title rather than Harry awaiting his slow death contemplating his life. Certainly a scene for contemplation.5. |
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10/18/2013 04:04:17 PM |
| Not Kilimanjaro but good mountain peaks in difficult but lovingly rendered light. As a landscape it contains nicely detailed layering and sufficient shadow detail and well-controlled highlights. For me a transitional device connecting the image to the frame is important and the foreground grasses growing off the edge do the trick well. 7 |
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10/18/2013 12:06:53 AM |
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10/17/2013 07:14:19 AM |
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10/17/2013 12:30:37 AM |
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10/16/2013 06:52:37 PM |
| Such a beautiful and stark image. Love the reflection and the subtle use of foreground. |
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10/16/2013 03:22:07 PM |
Beautiful landscape with very nice colors it's just a tad dark.
The snows of Kilimanjaro is more of a short story not a classic novel.
Still nicely done. |
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10/16/2013 12:29:20 PM |
Beautiful photograph. Love how the sun is shining on the mountain tops... but the rest is shaded. The colors are spectacular. The reflection in the water gives added interest as well.
Very nicely done. 7 |
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