Coeur d'Alene Resort

[Tim Eberly]

I said I was going to post another pic, so here goes.

[Yoyo Szeto]

Hi,
The use of red flowers in the front gives a great DoF feeling. The shot seems commercial to me, it is like those we see in a sale brochure of houses. The front whte part seems a bit overexposed. A very standard building shot.
yoyo

[Seb]

I said I was going to post another pic, so here goes.

Hello Tim,

As Yoyo said, this look like a commercial photograph. Actually, I am not conviced that most stock photographers compose their picture that well. The technical execution is quite good too, minus some very strong highlights.

However, this doesn't strike me as a creative or passionate photograph. It's too conventional to really touch me. (I hope I am not being too blunt here but that's how I feel about it).

regards

Seb

[Tim Eberly]

Hello Tim,

As Yoyo said, this look like a commercial photograph. Actually, I am not conviced that most stock photographers compose their picture that well. The technical execution is quite good too, minus some very strong highlights.

However, this doesn't strike me as a creative or passionate photograph. It's too conventional to really touch me. (I hope I am not being too blunt here but that's how I feel about it).

regards

Seb

It should look commercial. That was the goal.

[drg]

I'd crop this a little differently to accent the hotel. The carnations(?) at the bottom provide too much red. Make the fence a visual guide (a leading line) through the picture. Leaving some of the foreground red flowers and placing the start of the fence lower in the frame would make this a better composition for me.

A slightly different time of day to have the light fall across the hotel and perhaps catch more of the balconies might be a good variation?

For a commercial shot you want to illustrate the product, and I would guess here it would be the resort and not the flowers, though I like red flowers a lot.

-C

[gahspidy]

Well composed, however the extreme color saturation here is making this feel too busy , for me. I think that if the contrasts were slightly reduced as well as the saturation, I would find it "easier" to look at and appreciate much more. Still, a very good image.

[opus]

This picture would reproduce well in a commercial brochure.