Trondheimsfjord by night
Posted 14/07/2010 - 17:48
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Gorgeous colours, Bjørn . Lovely to see your pictures from this beautiful country.
Due to the lack of foreground interest and the dull upper sky, I might go for a more extreme letter-box crop enhancing the horizontal lines.
Due to the lack of foreground interest and the dull upper sky, I might go for a more extreme letter-box crop enhancing the horizontal lines.
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Andrew
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Andrew
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Posted 14/07/2010 - 18:27
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Thank you very much Andrew for your comment!
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Bjørn
bwlchmawr wrote:
Due to the lack of foreground interest and the dull upper sky, I might go for a more extreme letter-box crop enhancing the horizontal lines.
I welcome your suggestion about extreme cropping. Is this anywhere close to what you had in mind? Due to the lack of foreground interest and the dull upper sky, I might go for a more extreme letter-box crop enhancing the horizontal lines.
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Bjørn
Posted 14/07/2010 - 18:53
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Beautiful colours - I`d lose some of the water and keep the mysterious sky on the crop personally.
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Posted 14/07/2010 - 20:02
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Beautiful colours Bjorn. Wish our sky looked like that at midnight!
I prefer the original crop. Even the central horizon feels right. I can see Andrew's points and basically agree with them but the extra wide crop doesn't do it for me.
I prefer the original crop. Even the central horizon feels right. I can see Andrew's points and basically agree with them but the extra wide crop doesn't do it for me.
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Posted 14/07/2010 - 20:10
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Absolutely Bjørn, see how your eye, confined by the crop, runs along the horizon in the reading direction until it meets the boat.
Best wishes,
Andrew
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Andrew
"These places mean something and it's the job of a photographer to figure-out what the hell it is."
Robert Adams
"The camera doesn't make a bit of difference. All of them can record what you are seeing. But, you have to SEE."
Ernst Hass
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Posted 14/07/2010 - 20:36
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I've been sitting gawking at the 2 versions that Bjǿrn has posted .
Having thought ,chewed and inwardly digested I've come to the conclusion that I really prefer the original version - it seems to give more depth to it.
Wonderful colours !
Having thought ,chewed and inwardly digested I've come to the conclusion that I really prefer the original version - it seems to give more depth to it.
Wonderful colours !
let the education continue
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Posted 14/07/2010 - 22:55
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Neither look quite right to my eye. The first is too centred vertically, and the second doesn't have enough interest to sustain the long journey from left to right.
If the intention was to show how the colours of the sky are mirrored in the water, then a portrait crop would work better, especially if some of the foreground water was omitted, along with chunks to the left and right. This would leave the boat at the interstices of lines delineating the bottom and left-hand thirds of the picture.
On my horrible laptop screen the colours are a bit dull, but they are no doubt much better on a decent monitor, which probably explains the more positive response from other viewers.
There is nothing whatsoever to link this picture to Norway. It could have been taken almost anywhere with water and mountains. Nothing wrong with that, but I was bemused by Andrew's comment.
G
If the intention was to show how the colours of the sky are mirrored in the water, then a portrait crop would work better, especially if some of the foreground water was omitted, along with chunks to the left and right. This would leave the boat at the interstices of lines delineating the bottom and left-hand thirds of the picture.
On my horrible laptop screen the colours are a bit dull, but they are no doubt much better on a decent monitor, which probably explains the more positive response from other viewers.
There is nothing whatsoever to link this picture to Norway. It could have been taken almost anywhere with water and mountains. Nothing wrong with that, but I was bemused by Andrew's comment.
G
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Posted 15/07/2010 - 00:59
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Thank you all for taking time to write comments on my photo! It is highly valuable for a beginner like myself to get this kind of response, I really appreciate it!
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Bjørn
George Lazarette wrote:
If the intention was to show how the colours of the sky are mirrored in the water, then a portrait crop would work better, especially if some of the foreground water was omitted, along with chunks to the left and right. This would leave the boat at the interstices of lines delineating the bottom and left-hand thirds of the picture.
G
I tried to do a portrait crop of the image, like you suggest George, but when taking of chunks to the left and right, the boat could only end up at the bottom right-hand corner. I probably have not cropped the image exactly like you meant to suggest, but it is hopefully a step in the right direction? I like the idea with a portrait crop, it really changes the image. I guess my intention with the original photo was to show how the beam from the sunset at the left-hand side spread along the mountain ridge, into the sky, and the resulting reflections in the water. If the intention was to show how the colours of the sky are mirrored in the water, then a portrait crop would work better, especially if some of the foreground water was omitted, along with chunks to the left and right. This would leave the boat at the interstices of lines delineating the bottom and left-hand thirds of the picture.
G
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Posted 15/07/2010 - 19:50
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That's close to what I had in mind, but I would lop more off the left, and a bit more off the bottom, so that the ratio of side to bottom is closer to the Golden Mean.
It's a rather different picture, but to my mind more pleasing. These things are, of course, highly subjective.
G
It's a rather different picture, but to my mind more pleasing. These things are, of course, highly subjective.
G
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