Wiggly wall

[siejones]

Does this compostion work?

I like the depth with the wall taking you way into the picture but the actual compostion doesn't quite work in my eyes.

I think the whole image has a little too much shadow as oppose to light areas as well.

Hang on I am doing my own critique here...sorry please comment ;)

http://www.ukmountains.com/forumpics/IMG_4972.jpg

[oldgit]

It's a wall, dry stone at that, it wiggles, wanders off into the distance. Pulls you in to the background, :thumbs:, which unfortunately has cloud cover over the interestin bit. Ony other crit is the foreground looks slighty OOF?

[TomB]

The wall works very well at leading the eye into the shot, but unfortunately its generally lacking impact. I wonder if a B&W conversion might work?

[Gandhi]

Hope you don't mind, but I had a little fiddle as a picture tells....weeeeeelllll.

Just cropped it to a different ratio and punched some contrast back into the shot.

http://www.talkphotography.co.uk/gallery/data/995/IMG_4972mv.jpg

[Messiah Khan]

I don't know why, but I feel like I want to be standing at the other side of the wall. The shots not bad, the wall works really well for leading you through the image, but it lacks a focal point.

[siejones]

Hope you don't mind, but I had a little fiddle as a picture tells....weeeeeelllll.

Just cropped it to a different ratio and punched some contrast back into the shot.




Yeah that's a better crop. I should use square crops more often. I always avoid them for some reason.

Thanks for the help guys :thumbs:

[CT]

I lke it. The light and shadow is all part of being up in the hills. It just needs a bit more contrast as shown by Spencer. It might benefit well from restrained HDR treatment?

[digitalfailure]

the wall cuts the picture in half for me, with the right side being less interesting than the left.

[scoff]

Its a good shot, but I feel like I want to follow the slope to the RHS rather than the wall... Possibly because the wall curves away from the shot, If you had taken it from the other side of the wall I think that would make it easier for the viewer to follow the wall and be lead through the shot....