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12/10/2002 08:37:10 AM |
Hi, Jim. This is on behalf of the Critique Club.
Composition: A simple shot showing a highway leading through snow-capped mountains, made superior by the choice of portrait orientation rather than landscape. As the title suggests, this is blue sky country, and your compositional choice of 2/3rds sky evokes that feeling well. To remove the highway completely (as has been suggested) would clearly take away an important element of the story being told. I would however, like to see the removal of the light coloured area to the right of the highway that distracts and pulls the eye the wrong way; and I probably would have cropped out the intersection at the very bottom.
Technical: It is a long distance shot and therefore focus is not really an issue. You seem to have captured the light quite well. Whether or not a polarizing filter would have "improved" the image is, I think, open to question.
Overall: This doesn't have any WOW factor for me, doesn't hit me in the eye as an interesting piece. However, I believe you have well captured the mood that you probably were looking for and therefore I think it should be counted a success.
Jak |
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12/08/2002 11:31:57 PM |
| nice. is that colorado? nice placement of the horizon line. 7 |
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12/08/2002 08:11:33 AM |
| Why portrait? This is an awesome shot. This would be a much more effective shot landscape IMO. You've confused me on this one. Inspzil |
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12/08/2002 12:24:39 AM |
| Oooh! If not FOR the highway, a much better picture. Honest, crop the highway out (it's how it looked when it loaded in my browser), right above the distracting green trees on the left, and it's a much better pic. Really. You could've even kept the title, making it all the more zen. |
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12/07/2002 11:59:01 PM |
| One of my favorites of the week. Beautiful. No more need be said. PTL 10 |
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12/07/2002 01:18:36 PM |
| Beautiful but spoiled by the road. crop out the highway. |
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12/05/2002 07:43:53 PM |
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12/04/2002 08:31:50 PM |
| Very nice. Reminds me of my trip across Canada when I was 10. Jacko. 8 |
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12/02/2002 04:00:00 PM |
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12/02/2002 12:20:00 PM |
| THE SKY AND MOUNTAIN IS NICE...I DON'T LIKE THE ROAD MUCH |
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12/02/2002 05:14:00 AM |
| Was there anyway of gettting closer to the Highway. This is a landscape shot. Needs to be a good visual trail. |
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12/02/2002 04:37:00 AM |
| Seems a bit hazy. A polariser may have helped. |
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