Here's a version withe the distractions cloned out: http://s857.photobucket.com/albums/ab138/drd1135/PDML/?action=view¤t=tree2.jpg
On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 9:58 AM, Steven Desjardins <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 <[email protected]> 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 >> [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. >> > > > > -- > Steve Desjardins > -- Steve Desjardins -- 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.
