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johnnelly6as (e2 Member)

12 Feb 2012 - 10:41 AM

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I disagree i think the mountains in the background keep it as a landscape photo. I think it's a brilliant photo congrats John

CathR (Critique Team)

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12 Feb 2012 - 4:15 PM

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Kinda works for me. I can certainly see that it is a landscape and I like the abstract feel. But what I find distracting is all the lens flares on the mountain area - they pull my eye strongly to that part of the pic and away from the edge. I suppose your problem is that you need to have some sort of differentiation of tone in the hill area or else it will just be a dark space. Also the mountain area is very large and dominant in relation to the edge. But it's interesting work and I would say keep going with it.

Best wishes

Catherine

Roddy

12 Feb 2012 - 6:50 PM

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Now I'm wishing I'd taken a straightforward photo to help provide some post critique context This is actually a steeped banked highland river, the lens flares that Catherine comments on are actually white rocks - these are in turn reflected in the river. The 'edge' is ice. I did increase contrast and sats to 'enhance' the minimal/abstract feel - seems I have both succeeded and failed! Thanks all for taking the time to comment - most helpful and appreciated. I actually thought I'd OK'd the exif data - still getting to grips with the settings.