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Spanish Moss
Spanish Moss
tjh952


Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Challenge: Silhouettes III (Basic Editing III)
Camera: Canon EOS-350D Rebel XT
Lens: Canon EF 75-300mm f/4.0-5.6 III
Location: Outside my apartment in Lakeland, FL
Date: Aug 26, 2006
Aperture: f/5.6
ISO: 400
Shutter: 1/50 sec.
Galleries: Sky, Nature
Date Uploaded: Aug 27, 2006

Taken from my apartment building stairwell balcony which, luckily, faces west. When I saw the great lighting that we had after the storm front passed through I set up my tripod and started clicking away.

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09/12/2006 04:38:43 PM
Critique Club Review:

Focus appears good, depth of field appears a bit shallow. Color, saturation, and hue are fine, except for the area on the middle left where the lighter part of the clouds are burned out and featureless.

The vegetation along the right would have worked better if it were more into the frame, to frame the photo, or cropped out completly. As it stands, it creates a distraction more than a point of interest.

The major strand of moss is dead center, and essentially cuts the picture in two. If I could reach it and it wassn't illegal, I would have trimmed it off by about half, so it would be a little longer than the strand to its right. Rule of thirds purists would have voted you down for this centering. (I'm not one.) But this is a picture where centering is possibly not the best position. Since I can't see what was out side the frame, I don't know what constraints you were dealing with.

I do like the colors and texture of the clouds. You can almost feel the weather.
 Comments Made During the Challenge
09/01/2006 06:45:41 AM
Wow...I didn't know Spanish Moss could grow on Pine Trees? I've only seen it on Oak. I like the focus.
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08/31/2006 02:43:29 PM
Hmm... Well, That moss is pretty... I think I would like it if it filled up more of the frame and was along one of the rule-of-the-thirds lines, and if the background were stronger, maybe. There's something a bit bothering on the right edge of the screen that distracts away from the main image. The branch above is in a nice place, and the silhouette is very strong and good... albeit a little small
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08/31/2006 09:23:28 AM
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08/30/2006 10:01:27 PM
the cropping could be tighter, i would remove the out of focus stuff in the top left, as well as the stuff along the right border.
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