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01/24/2003 04:29:23 PM |
Critique Club Critique
(1) COMPOSITION (CONTENT) I find the layout of this photograph to be interesting but lacking in strength. The gentle sloping hills, the rows of hills that fade into the distance, the lone cactus all make for a strong composition. I wish there was a little less sky, that you had shown a little more of the details of the forground instead. By placing the horizon at 1/3 of the way down from the top, you would have accomplished this and also followed the rule of thirds.
(2) BACKGROUND The background in this photograph is the sky which unfortunately is very burnt out. I realize that this is because you are shooting into the sun, which gave you the interesting halos around all of the cactuses, and the wonderful lens flares....but it did nothing to the sky.
(3) CAMERA WORK ,TECHNICAL Exposure is very well done considering that you are shooting into the sun. The backlighting on the cactus and the plants in the foreground is wonderful, and I wish you could have made that a more prominent part of the photograph.
There are so many facinating details that one really must look this photograph for a long time. I keep going bakc to the hills that fade into the distance. Wonderful capture.
(4) DIGITAL PROCESSING ,TECHNICAL I wish you had cropped this a little differently. The photograph would have made a dynamic statement if there was not quite so much over bright sky.
(5)MEETING THE CHALLENGE This photo does a very good job of meeting the challenge. I love the way that you have taken a fairly normal scene and transformed it into a fairyland by the use of haloing effects and lens flare..
(6) MY OPINION ON THE PHOTO The subject here is wonderful. The way you executed it is wonderful. I think perhaps this is a photo that you might try to reshoot in many different lights and times of day. This is a great location to get some really neat shots. Well done! |
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01/19/2003 07:10:07 PM |
| i like this concept maybe shoot with sun at your back to avoid lens flare or get a hood , |
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01/19/2003 12:06:08 PM |
| Ooooh, lens flares! I really love the hint of green in the foreground. Excellent composition, with that manly cactus on the right. Cool! |
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01/16/2003 08:06:02 PM |
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01/15/2003 10:00:38 PM |
| Lens flare is too distracting. |
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01/14/2003 06:11:09 PM |
| The lens reflections of the sun are a little disappointing - but probably very hard to avoid with this kind of shot. Your composition is quite good but might have looked a little better with slightly less sky (ie: move horizon to 1/3 from top of photo instead of closer to middle). |
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01/14/2003 11:06:45 AM |
| Washed out sky to the max here. Sunflares too. A better day would've done you better. Maybe a polarizer would've minimized that, but as bright as the sky is, I don't think even that would make the exposure right. Framing this differently would've been better too. I'd have put the big mountain on the extreme left and captured some of the differences in elevation and terrain, and maybe got away from shooting directly into the sun. Its never an easy thing to judge though without actually being there. - Inspzil |
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01/13/2003 07:34:53 AM |
| The only thing i see wrong with the photo is the sun spots. otherwise a beautiful photo . no made anything , that is what i like 9 |
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01/13/2003 03:07:52 AM |
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01/13/2003 02:43:01 AM |
| That's Arizona isn't it? Where, may I ask? Nice photo. |
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