I agree with David Savage, there's too much going on in the background (I'm specifically thinking of the cars and buildings).
1334 is my favorite of the shots. I liked the yellow in the front left, and I especially like seeing the shadow going off diagonally towards the red pipes (leads the eye towards that other element). Personally I would've tried to move the camera a bit more to the right to seperate those two elements. I would've tried to align that shadow more between the two. And I would've tried to limit the DOF to render a more blurry background. Love those colors. ~Nick David Wright http://pedalingprose.wordpress.com/ ----- Original Message ---- From: Larry Colen <[email protected]> To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, February 22, 2009 12:28:50 AM Subject: Help with a shot Yesterday, I took a few minutes off to wander about outside the office with my K100 + DA40. I thought I'd get some shots of some recently painted fire plumbing that was a very pretty shade of red. I tried juxtaposing it with the bright yellow fire hydrant and the green hills with a rock outcropping nearby. I don't feel that the shot quite worked. One thing I may try is a longer lens to flatten the perspective and bring the outcropping in more. I'd greatly appreciate other suggestions of what to try to make this shot work. http://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/sets/72157614202014625/ -- Photographs are like sentences, the best ones have both subjects and verbs. Larry Colen [email protected] http://www.red4est.com/lrc -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
