L.A. Sunset

[DrRoebuck]

I took a few with similar composition. Works? Not works?

[MB1]

It is nice enough but I bet you could dazzle us with a radical composition if you tried!

[MB1]

Actually I like your whole series a lot but the best IMO are the "Good Night Irene" and pay phone shots.

For them that want to see what the heck I am talking about http://forums.roadbikereview.com/sho...d.php?t=126810

[DrRoebuck]

Thanks, MB.

P.S.
You crack me up.

[Xia_Ke]

While this is a nice shot, I agree with MB, not the strongest out of the set. I really like the 2 MB mentioned as well as "Sunsets, Baby". Looks like you had a great outting this day :thumbsup:

[MB1]

While this is a nice shot, I agree with MB, not the strongest out of the set. I really like the 2 MB mentioned as well as "Sunsets, Baby". Looks like you had a great outting this day :thumbsup:

RoadBikeReview is a nice site but the Mods aren't any fun!

[Xia_Ke]

RoadBikeReview is a nice site but the Mods aren't any fun!

Yeah, it's much the same here...LOL Maybe that's what I need to do this year is get back into biking :idea: Git me up off my fat arse :blush2:

[DrRoebuck]

While this is a nice shot, I agree with MB, not the strongest out of the set. I really like the 2 MB mentioned as well as "Sunsets, Baby". Looks like you had a great outting this day :thumbsup:

Thanks. I like the others as well, but was more interested in what the peeps here thought of the composition. While maybe not "radical," as MB suggests, it's a little different.

The Sunsets, Baby was taken a couple weeks later. If the day was as crystal clear as the Hollywood/Downtown day I would have blown my camera up shooting directly into the sun like that. :thumbsup:

[MB1]

Thanks. I like the others as well, but was more interested in what the peeps here thought of the composition. While maybe not "radical," as MB suggests, it's a little different.....

One of the great directors of all time.

He insisted that the sky to ground ratio should always be about 80/20 or 20/80 in his landscapes. His famous westerns had a great sense of space in them which likely is directly a result of that sky/ground ratio.

Which is a long way around to suggesting that you don't have quite enough ground in your image posted here. (Plus even though I know it isn't; the horizon looks just a tiny bit high to the right to me). I do love the sense of city size this image projects but I'm thinking just a little more city would be even better (say another 5% of the frame....).

[DrRoebuck]

Thanks, MB.

Some of the others from that day have a little more land in them.

Like this one (but the sky is not as cool).




Guess you can't go wrong taking advice from John Ford.

[MB1]

Guess you can't go wrong taking advice from John Ford.

Worked for John Wayne. :thumbsup:

[PrevailingConditions]

Josh - with all due respect to great directors of the past, I really like the first shot you posted. I think it suffers from the small format allowed here, but I would bet that this looks really nice printed large so that you can get a sense of the detail of the building while also having the scale of the sky.

Nicely done.

PC

[DrRoebuck]

Josh - with all due respect to great directors of the past, I really like the first shot you posted. I think it suffers from the small format allowed here, but I would bet that this looks really nice printed large so that you can get a sense of the detail of the building while also having the scale of the sky.

Nicely done.

PC

Thanks a lot, PC. It'll be fun to see how the print turns out.