Highway/Fog/Streetlight

[DrRoebuck]

Took this just after a foggy sunset. What say you, critics?

[agtaylor]

Not a very qualified critic but I like it. Maybe would have been better from street level/better view of fog? Just drove home through a bunch of fog.

[DrRoebuck]

Not a very qualified critic but I like it. Maybe would have been better from street level/better view of fog? Just drove home through a bunch of fog.

Thanks. Unfortunately, I was overlooking the highway from a bluff.

[Griggs]

Good picture, I like the colors. I doesn't look like the road is quite level, I'd level it like a horizon, otherwise, very good =)

[Greg McCary]

Well composed Doc. I like it too. You might have a very slight tilt? It could be the angle. What ISO did you shoot at?

[MB1]

I love the colors and the range of color, nicely exposed and composed. It is a great setting for a good picture but it is missing an object to look at.

A person or a couple walking hand in hand, a car, an abandoned car, a tail light streak, a cyclist, a kid on a tricycle, a newspaper blowing in the wind-something more than it has.

I gotta admit though that it did draw me in and I spent some time looking at it before I decided it was missing something.

Nice one.

[gahspidy]

I think this works. I like your placement of the light, although i wish the bulb were not touching the horizontal line of the road. . .either higher up or slightly lower. Not a big issue at all. The orange hues disappearing into the blues as well as the scene fading off into the foggy unknown in the distance. . .keeps one looking.

[DrRoebuck]

Good picture, I like the colors. I doesn't look like the road is quite level, I'd level it like a horizon, otherwise, very good =)

Thanks. This was a tricky one to get the leveling right, because the lines aren't parallel and I was forced to shoot from a weird angle.

[DrRoebuck]

Well composed Doc. I like it too. You might have a very slight tilt? It could be the angle. What ISO did you shoot at?

Thanks a lot, Greg. See what I just posted about the tilt. Maybe I'll level the top lines of the highway.

I was using a tripod so was at ISO 200.

[DrRoebuck]

I love the colors and the range of color, nicely exposed and composed. It is a great setting for a good picture but it is missing an object to look at.

A person or a couple walking hand in hand, a car, an abandoned car, a tail light streak, a cyclist, a kid on a tricycle, a newspaper blowing in the wind-something more than it has.

I gotta admit though that it did draw me in and I spent some time looking at it before I decided it was missing something.

Nice one.

I have some others with streams of headlights, but the lines didn't turn out well and I kind of liked the desolation of the scene without them.

[DrRoebuck]

I think this works. I like your placement of the light, although i wish the bulb were not touching the horizontal line of the road. . .either higher up or slightly lower. Not a big issue at all. The orange hues disappearing into the blues as well as the scene fading off into the foggy unknown in the distance. . .keeps one looking.

I noticed that about the streetlamp placement but couldn't do anything about it. I was shooting from too high an angle. So I grew to like it.

[MB1]

I have some others with streams of headlights, but the lines didn't turn out well.....[/IMG]

Well I gotta agree that the tail lights don't work (mostly because they are not bright enough that time of day). That doesn't change my thoughts that the image needs something else in it.

OTOH if it was part of a series showing empty urban landscapes it would fit right in.......

[DrRoebuck]

Well I gotta agree that the tail lights don't work (mostly because they are not bright enough that time of day). That doesn't change my thoughts that the image needs something else in it.

OTOH if it was part of a series showing empty urban landscapes it would fit right in.......

Heh. Funny you should mention that.

http://www.velocipedia.org/photography/signsoflife/

[MB1]

Heh. Funny you should mention that.

http://www.velocipedia.org/photography/signsoflife/

...you shoulda got the the chrome Pista.

[DrRoebuck]

...you shoulda got the the chrome Pista.

LOL! At the time I got my Pista, both Arby and MeatToothPaste had chrome Pistas AND D70s. I had to be a little different.

[GB1]

I like the negative space. It portray the feeling of quietness, emptiness, mystery, etc. I'm undecided on the value of the wall and grass area in the bottom part of the photo. I'm also undecided if it would be better with something else in the photo, too? Who knows.

GB

[Frog]

I'm afraid I'm going to have to disagree. Yes the light/color is great but there's nothing there to capture my interest.