Farewell Green Leaves
by SDW

Comment by funny pie:
that is the deepest shade of blue sky I have ever seen...

Break Time
by SDW

Comment by Jutilda:
Oh this is great. Reminds me of the "lunch ladies" when I was in elementary school. Great post editing. I like her expression with one eye winked.

Autumn Reflection
by SDW

Comment by angela_packard:
what a beautiful shot....adding to faves!

Broken Rythm
by SDW

Comment by mystardream:
If not for the lamp in the middle, would be a much better snap.

Long Road Home
by SDW

Comment by Skip:
it's a great idea, and you've gotten some good tips. these shots are difficult because there is so little that you can control (well, short of dropping stuff to make cars swerve).

you have to close your eyes and imagine what you're after, set it up shoot, then examine and make adjustments. if you aren't feeling 'wow', then go look somewhere else.

one of the keys to making this shot is the capturing the dynamics. here are a couple (although mine is nowhere near as good as mark's shot).



Message edited by author 2006-05-08 15:00:21.

Long Road Home
by SDW

Comment by Rikki:
Hey Scott-

I think this was a missed opportunity. Night photography almost always has that "magic hour" which is typically an hour just before or after sunset. I think you just missed it. The foreground and background is black with hardly any definition to them. A silhouette almost always never scores high here for a night shot unless there are other things in the composition that leads the eye throughout the photo. The sky is too flat with no visual interest. Maybe if there was more ambient lighting this would have done better (more cars on the road, street lamps, etc).

It's a good shot technicaly except for the sensor dust or maybe filter dust spots that are faintly seen in the upper left hand of the skies. Don't fret dude. I would reshoot this type of image and post it for critique sometime ;)

Cheers,

Rikki

Long Road Home
by SDW

Comment by Cutter:
Positives:

Subject Matter
Color

Negatives:

Composition
Negative Space
Cartoony Sky
Focal Length

I feel like you tampered with curves a bit too much, but I could be wrong...

Long Road Home
by SDW

Comment by LalliSig:
Good idea, wrong time of day to take this photo if you want my opinion. What I mean is that you have no texture to the dark ground around the freeway and that freeway itself isn´t enough to carry the picture. I would suggest you being there an hour or half an hour earlier to be able to catch some texture in the dark areas of this photo.

The composition is good, nothing wrong with that department.

Long Road Home
by SDW

Comment by marbo:
You picked a good time to shoot with still some colour in the sky but the main problem is there is not enough going on. No streetlights and not many cars.

Long Road Home
by SDW

Comment by posthumous:
I'm surprised this didn't do better. I guess people are sick of night-time slow-shutter headlight shots, but this was executed very well. You got a 7 from me.