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11/19/2004 07:56:06 PM |
From the Critique Club
Hi Thomas - just spent a diverting minute or several trawling through your favourites. Good to be writing for a lover of the sydney harbour Bridge shot :-)
Strong organisation of elements here - solid compositional skills brought to bear with strong balance and effective cropping. There is the very slightest tilt to the horizon, though I wouldn't have noticed it had it not been mentioned in comments, and I had to scroll the image to the edge of my page to proove it. I wouldn't have though it a big deal, but I wonder if it doesn't perhaps add a subconscious element of uneasiness to the shot?
My dislike of it - no, that's a touch strong: I don't 'dislike' it - what it that makes it not-terribly-appealing to me, is, I think, that it seems to be sending a certain message, communicating a certain mood, but that there are strong elements that work against that, and that don't seem to work toward a particular contrast or useful contradiction.
On first look it has that feel of the ending of a good sunny summer's day. A calm sea, a gentle, smooth deserted beach (oh, and it most certainly did not require the presence of a couple hand-in-hand to make it, by the way: that would have made it trash sentimentality). But the presence of those sharp lines of the dune grass, too strongly present to be simply a fill for the negative space there, and too chaotic to be compositionally contributory to the feeling, and the small line of clouds, perhaps take away from that impact, though what they work towards is beyond me. It leaves the shot without either the hyper-simple composition of a more graphically-oriented image, nor the great detail and strong sense of focus (in terms of subject) of a landscape.
I think also that the graphic elemnts that are present here perhaps work against you. The strongly dark areas (not black, but almost - could have used a touch of levels to go one way or the other perhaps?) do not form a coherent basis for the shot - especially the way in which the shpaes of the exposed sand and the leaves interact - they seem arbitrarily overlaid, with little sense of drving the eye through the frame. The strongest point, which seems to me to be the tonality of the lower sky and the reflections in the water, are intruded on massively by those leaves and banks of sand.
In the end, I think you did well to score so highly with this (I wonder, did the sunset help you there?) :-)
hope some of that confused and rambling thinking is of use
Ed |
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11/15/2004 02:55:40 AM |
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11/14/2004 12:57:51 PM |
| I have a thing about horizons, look at other comments I've made and you'll see. It may be an illusion but, the horizon seems to dip to the right to me? Apart from that the colours are great and are wonderfully reflected in the pool. The grasses are nicely silhouetted, there's some sky detail but I can't help feeling there should be something on the right to balance it a bit? Very nice shot all the same, a six from me. |
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11/13/2004 10:41:36 PM |
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11/12/2004 05:36:17 PM |
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11/12/2004 03:28:25 PM |
| You have used something in the foreground to add to the image, but in this case it has become something that distracts your from a beautiful scene. I do believe that this image would be stronger without the foreground which acts like a fork in your eye. |
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11/12/2004 12:32:27 AM |
| Nice silhouette against the sunset. |
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11/11/2004 10:21:16 AM |
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11/11/2004 10:16:03 AM |
| this is the kind of pic that will stop me to look at the calendar again. well done. |
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11/11/2004 08:56:51 AM |
| great shot. I would suggest straighting the horizon line with a crop. |
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11/09/2004 08:48:51 PM |
| I like the sea grass on the left. Beautiful. |
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11/09/2004 08:17:57 PM |
| a refreshing change for sunset/rise pictures. very nicely done. |
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11/09/2004 02:50:15 AM |
| Good exposure to depict cool, end of summer, soft breezes. Eloquently cropped to give depth of field. There's an optical balance/illusion here that makes the perfectly horrizontal water horrizon line look tilted significantly clockwise. I would tend to compensate for the human eye rather than go with the truth for this image as the tilt, if only illusionary, is sadly still very distracting. 7. |
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11/08/2004 04:58:04 PM |
| gives you definitely the summer feeling |
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11/08/2004 04:51:20 PM |
| wonderful image, reminds me a bit of the winning pic in the 'framing' contest, has the same serene, inviting feeling - 9 |
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11/08/2004 03:43:04 PM |
| Breath taking scene. ONe of the best photos in this challenge. Good luck on a ribbon. |
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11/08/2004 03:34:17 PM |
| Good picture, but it needs a little excitement. An additional interesting element. Maybe fil flash on the grass in the foreground? A couple walking the beach hand n hand? |
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