It will be good to hear from others to see how they feel. FWIW, I like the elements that seem to bother you. I have shot those mountains without nothing around them and there is no perspective to get a feel for them. They just look like a mountain of some sort.
Thanks for your candid comments. -- Bruce Wednesday, January 3, 2007, 10:24:23 AM, you wrote: ft> On 1/3/07, Bruce Dayton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Standing down in the flat valley really gives these mountains a sense >> of power. Taken in Utah. >> >> Pentax K10D, A 70-210/4, Handheld >> ISO 100, 1/350 sec @ F/11 >> >> http://www.daytonphoto.com/PAW/snow2006_01.htm >> ft> I'm not sure that I'm as thrilled with this one as I am with most of ft> your other work, Bruce. ft> A couple of things that bother me: ft> 1) The tree in the mid-ground on the left is about the same apparent ft> height as the mountain - it lessens the impact of the massiveness of ft> the mountain, IMHO. ft> 2) The dark tree in the foreground seems to be "touching" the tree ft> mentioned in point one. I'm distracted from the main subject ft> (presumabely the mountain) as I ascertain what tree is which. I don't ft> mind photos in which there's a lot going on, but with this one, all ft> this only takes away from the impact of the main subject, without ft> adding any meaningful narrative. ft> 3) The dark trunk upper left is a distraction. ft> But, maybe it's just me... ft> cheers, ft> frank ft> -- ft> "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
