Brooklyn Marsh Field

[gahspidy]

This is a scene I had tried to capture a few times before, but I'm happiest with this result so far.
Comments and critique welcome.

[Greg McCary]

As with Tuna your skill level at composition are so strong your pictures are hard to critiue in that area.I like where you placed the horizon. To me that's the images strongest point. The marsh also has an almost 3d effect. I have seen a picture very similar to this in your gallery or web site and you are right this one is much better. I also like the island in the backgound and the shadows of the clouds. You have one very long weed on the right hand side I might have tried to clone stamp out, but this is a very strong image in my book.
Greg

[Ronnoco]

Great detail and colour in the foreground, but you are really missing a centre of interest or visual focal point. The eye sort of wanders around looking for what you were taking a photo of. A nice red barn or something else on the hill would certainly help this image. I would also work on the clouds in postprocessing to make them stand out a little more.

Ronnoco

[Seb]

This is a scene I had tried to capture a few times before, but I'm happiest with this result so far.
Comments and critique welcome.

Gary, I really like the colors, the sharpness and the depth (which focal lenght was used???) but I can't pass over the horizon tilt.

Have you tried this in b&w? As I said, I really like the colors but I have a feeling that b&w could work very well too.

Seb

[drg]

While liking the panorama and textures in this photo, I'm wanting there to be less foreground. The grasses in the foreground are overpowering or not balanced with the upper portion of the photograph for me. I feel that the texture and tone of the grass still could be a central focus but would benefit with a better proportion or ratio to the water and sky.

[gahspidy]

Thanks for the comments.

Greg. . .I was thinking also of taking out that long stem on the right, as it would be easy enough, but I decided I will leave it alone and see if it "grows " on me at all. Glad to know how you feel about the horizon placement as well. Thanks for the time.

ron. . .I feel the swirling field and the contrasts of colors are enough of a subject itself, but I think having something more such as a red barn as you said could have brought it more interest indeed. The softness of the clouds and sky contrasting with the sharply defined field and the blue contrasting with the yellows is what I thought were strong points that I wanted to emphasize. So i did not try to bring too much out in the clouds. thanks for the time.

Seb. . .you got me on the tilt. I had not noticed it till you brought it up, but I think it is off slightly. i will correct it. I did try a b&w conversion and liked it much, but I think the colors win out here. This was shot with the 17-40 at about 24mm. Thanks for your time

CD. . .thanks for your thoughts on this. I feel pretty strong about this framing, but I can see what you mean about the crop, and will experiment with it.