No offense taken. The whole point of this exercise is to get constructive criticism. One thing I've realized recently is that sometimes I like something very different from others when I am looking at the PESOs. This means that how my judgement plays out in my own shots might not be agreeable to others. It's a rather obvious insight but one that we often forget.
As for this shot, the topography of the ground led me to center the tree. There was no good shot with the tree off center that I could find. Secondly, I had a "tree of life" motif in my head and that leads naturally to a centered tree with the sky being secondary. As for the distracting bits, I would need to clone them out since cropping would destroy too much of the framing I wanted. I'll give it a try. On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 4:29 AM, Boris Liberman <bori...@gmail.com> wrote: > Steve, I don't think it is too successful a shot as it is presented. > > In no particular order: > > * The object in the bottom right corner is distracting. > * At the top right corner there is something (branches of another tree?) > that overlap the branches of /the/ tree in rather distracting manner. > * I am not entirely certain that placing the tree square in the middle is > good or bad idea. In particular, it seems the sky was really beautiful that > day, but only absolute minimum of the sky is in the frame... I'd like to see > other takes on the same motif or at least be told why you did so. > > Please understand me correctly, as I mean no offense. > > Boris > > On 10/25/2010 5:29 PM, Steven Desjardins wrote: >> >> This is one of those scenes you encounter on a walk. It's a great >> combination of background and subject and sky and it's never quite as >> good in a photo as it was live. Here it is anyway: >> >> >> http://s857.photobucket.com/albums/ab138/drd1135/PDML/?action=view¤t=tree.jpg >> >> > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. > -- Steve Desjardins -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
