ChrisR
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I'd really like some critique of this image, whch I like, with reservations, but my wife doesn't:
EDIT: note this image has been replaced because of the Photobucket debacle; I think this is the correct image but can't be sure. /EDIT
This was taken with my Olympus mju II, which sits in a pocket of my walking jacket, on Agfa Vista 200 film. We walked along the edge of this field, and I was very taken with the line of trees. The image didn't look great in colour; it was nearly monochrome anyway, so I converted it to black and white using the Aperture preset for low contrast (and then boosted the contrast up a bit). I cropped it initially into even more of a panorama shot, but eventually settled on this 16:9 crop as it gave more of the clouds. I left in one telephone pole at the left, as a contrast to the trees, but cropped out the second, larger one.
I have very mixed feelings about it. I've printed it within an A4 frame, and the trees look lost. I feel it needs to be bigger (so may not show up well here). There's a lot of polughed field foreground which isn't very interesting, although I've tried to leave some texture there. The thirds work horizontally, but much less so vertically, and there's not really any serious vertical element in the frame. I was wondering what might provide that? A tall foreground object would make itself the subject instead of the trees. A track in the field would only go so far up the frame.
What compositional tweaks could have saved this shot? Any ideas?
EDIT: note this image has been replaced because of the Photobucket debacle; I think this is the correct image but can't be sure. /EDIT
This was taken with my Olympus mju II, which sits in a pocket of my walking jacket, on Agfa Vista 200 film. We walked along the edge of this field, and I was very taken with the line of trees. The image didn't look great in colour; it was nearly monochrome anyway, so I converted it to black and white using the Aperture preset for low contrast (and then boosted the contrast up a bit). I cropped it initially into even more of a panorama shot, but eventually settled on this 16:9 crop as it gave more of the clouds. I left in one telephone pole at the left, as a contrast to the trees, but cropped out the second, larger one.
I have very mixed feelings about it. I've printed it within an A4 frame, and the trees look lost. I feel it needs to be bigger (so may not show up well here). There's a lot of polughed field foreground which isn't very interesting, although I've tried to leave some texture there. The thirds work horizontally, but much less so vertically, and there's not really any serious vertical element in the frame. I was wondering what might provide that? A tall foreground object would make itself the subject instead of the trees. A track in the field would only go so far up the frame.
What compositional tweaks could have saved this shot? Any ideas?
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