Cowsby
dali_lama_2kComment by Luci11e: Greetings from the Critique Club
First Impressions:
a shot of some cows in some beautiful country side
Technical (Comp, lighting, color, focus):
someone mentioned that the sky was overexposed - I myself don't see it as overexposed but it's hard to get the lighting just right when you mix shadows and bright light the way you have here; this could have been corrected by setting the shot up from a different angle so that the light and shadows aren't competeing for attention
Challenge:
Your shot meets the challenge alright
Artistic/Emotion:
Artisticly this shot leaves me wanting more. I understand what your going for....a nice landscape which included the cows. I have problems capturing those shots too as mine always end up just looking like a snapshot. I think that may be the problem here.
Emotionaly, again here this shot leaves me wanting more
Summary:
A shot that meets the challenge but for a shot with more interest it may have benefited from being shot at a different angle....one in which the photo isn't cut in half by the shadows and the sunlight....or one that concentrates more on the cows; maybe getting a closer of one and having the other slightly blurred in the background. You say this was shot from the road. Maybe next time the car could be parked and you could walk up to the fence? More often than not (if your very still) cows will walk up close to the fence so if you move slowly this could offer you an interesting facial shot. And as someone else mentioned there is that (distracting) fence post....just a step or two (or three) over could have corrected that.
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