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Postby dooda on Fri Apr 21, 2006 5:03 pm

Does anyone like this image? Can you tell me why? I just love it and I don't understand why. I took it from a moving car on the highway. I probably should have cropped off the left side.

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Postby Raskill on Fri Apr 21, 2006 5:25 pm

It's a bit desolate and bleak looking. I don't really know what is is but there is something in the image I do like.

I would think about cloning out the power lines though.

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Postby flipfrog on Fri Apr 21, 2006 5:26 pm

dave:

like it...
the simple composition goes against all the rules, but that is what i like most. the digital noise does not bother me, maybe almost adds to the feel of the image

i might crop out the sign beside the fourth tree from the left, and the tel lines in the sky to make it even more simple which i feel makes this image so interesting.
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Postby dooda on Fri Apr 21, 2006 5:28 pm

Thanks guys. I didn't even notice the sign, and thought about the lines but I wasn't sure so I didn't bother. Maybe I'll revisit.
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Postby wendellt on Fri Apr 21, 2006 5:32 pm

chaos and order in nature is split into 3 levels
bottom chaotic bushes, middle ordered and neat trees top mildly chaotic sky
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Postby avkomp on Fri Apr 21, 2006 6:15 pm

I personally think there is too much grassy stuff, I felt it looked better with around half the grass cropped.

Sky and trees work well though

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Postby jben_net on Fri Apr 21, 2006 6:23 pm

Great stuff...

Undercomposed and yet somehow looking very memorable.

It makes me feel like I'm in some sort of dream. Surreal.
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Postby Matt. K on Fri Apr 21, 2006 6:39 pm

Me like.
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Postby stubbsy on Fri Apr 21, 2006 7:08 pm

Dave

I think this works very well. The grain in the sky and the tones in the clouds are a wonderful contrast to those not quite symmetrical blobs of trees. I think a touch of a trim off the bottom may improve it (and clone the power lines), but this would only be tinkering at the margins of what is a bloody good shot to start with.
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Postby sirhc55 on Fri Apr 21, 2006 7:13 pm

I like too
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Postby marcotrov on Fri Apr 21, 2006 7:29 pm

Subjectivity is so full of surprises. :)
Apart from the individual elements tackled very nicely i.e. the graininess, the contrast, the composition seems to mostly work and from the point of view of the possible message the clean ordered row of trees (only held back by the distracting telegraph lines and the nuisance sign under one of the trees) against the broody horizon versus the chaotic scramble of fallen timber and undergrowth in the foregound BUT somehow for me it doesn't quite all sit together so that the image in my view lacks that essential appeal that I have come to associate with your dramatic and visually stimulating and commanding images Dooda.
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Postby wmaburnett on Sat Apr 22, 2006 6:35 am

i like it, its simple, has a bit of grain which i like in this situation, reminds me of an older fine art print.
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Postby dooda on Sat Apr 22, 2006 7:13 am

I'm intrigued a little by Marco's statement, and probably what many are also thinking. though this probably isn't as good as my usual fare, I like it a lot more. It sort of mocks the idea of tripod (it's taken from a moving car) and throws the rule of thirds rule to the wind.

So why is it that when we put out something that represents a departure that much better? Is it representation that we're progressing as artists, a stab at the idea that we aren't gimmicky, or a one trick pony? That perhaps there is some total genius lieing within, waiting to be recognized?
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Postby Big Red on Sat Apr 22, 2006 10:53 am

dooda wrote:I'm intrigued a little by Marco's statement, and probably what many are also thinking. though this probably isn't as good as my usual fare, I like it a lot more. It sort of mocks the idea of tripod (it's taken from a moving car) and throws the rule of thirds rule to the wind.

So why is it that when we put out something that represents a departure that much better? Is it representation that we're progressing as artists, a stab at the idea that we aren't gimmicky, or a one trick pony? That perhaps there is some total genius lieing within, waiting to be recognized?


perhaps its just simply a nice pic !!
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Postby NeoN on Sat Apr 22, 2006 2:00 pm

A land of sweeping plains,of ragged mountains ranges,of droughts and flooding rains.
I love her far horizons,......

Perhaps that's why :) dooda

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Postby Alex on Sat Apr 22, 2006 3:26 pm

I like this one, Dooda. Very well captured.

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