Bridge To My Heartby
jerrftComment by sylandrix: Greetings from the Critique Club!...
COMPOSITION... The elements in the photo are presented in a slightly static way. That is, it appears as a straight-on snapshot and can benefit from an interesting angle. Did you try going really low, perhaps more to the left or right, or how about a shot into the tunnel that adds a bit of perspective as you see the road wind off in the distance? Just some possibilities... of course, your goal is to attempt to hide people in the photo and perhaps other vantage points might not have achieve this too well... On a smaller note, since the covered bridge is your main subject, you could have had the bridge fill the frame more, excluding some of the trees.
TECHNICAL... The image is overexposed on the tree section. I would imagine the photo was taken on a very bright sunny day. Some clouds may have diffused the light a bit and allowed you to expose all areas evenly. As it stands, it looks like the light hitting the trees has quite a difference in intensity than the light hitting the subject. Since you don't control the weather, you have no choice in a case like this (without using some kind of graduated ND filter) than to exclude the trees altogether. Moving in close and letting the bridge fill the frame, as mentioned above, is one solution. Finding another viewpoint could be another.
OVERALL..Watch out for harsh lighting conditions where there is a large contrast between the bright and dark areas of your photo, and don't forget to try lots of viewpoints when you find an interesting subject to photograph.
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