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Matt, it's a good straight up shot. The DOF is great and the scene is certainly interesting enough to photograph, though I think it could be even better, maybe some ice in the field or even better sky. For an experiment, try cropping just below the upper part of the stream, which will create more of a pano, see what you get.
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This looks much better with the full screen image from your Flicker Account. The detail in the grass is very good. Living the Nevada Desert has really brought me to appreciate shots like this. Very similar to what we get around the irrigated ranch lands. Could there have been more in the foreground? Maybe, but I'm liking this a lot for what it is and not sure I would have liked anything too much more. A little more of the icy creek maybe, a larger tree in the mid left maybe if it had existed. The more I look at it the more I can only say good job and well done.
Love the amount of detail. Very good composition and overall feeling to the photo. As far as critique, I really can't think of anything that will make it better other than maybe a little more saturation.
Liban
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Beautiful, Matt. But like GB1, I feel like it would benefit from a crop. I like his idea of cropping a bit from the bottom. But I'm thinking more about cropping from the right. I'm a sucker for the Rule of Thirds and in my mind the composition is just a bit too centered. I think cropping a bit from the right and maybe a tiny bit from the top would make it more dynamic.
As far as content goes, I keep wishing there were silhouetted people in it. I think it's juts a bit flat content-wise as-is. I'm imagining it with a hunter and a dog, over to the right...
Thanks guys. I agree a hunter and dog would have really made it but there wasn't one!
I was actually out there to catch shots in good light of a C130 (or something like that) doing touch and go's at the nearby airport but I was about 1 minute too late for it's final pass. This was a plan b shot since I was there in nice light anyway.
Here's a crop. I like the detail in the grass too so I took off more sky and tried to put the horizon around the top 1/3 (I don't have LR on this computer so I had to estimate that in Picasa).
Much better. It actually seems just a bit tight on the right now but I do think it's much stronger.
The hunter idea was just to put it in your mind. Even though we're critiquing after the fact, I think it's good to have that sort of "prop" on call so when you do see a scene like this, maybe you'll be able to put that idea to use. It might have just been a matter of using a tripod and playing the part of the hunter yourself
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