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This is a snap shot I took of my wife and baby on my holiday last week.
I'd like to hear your thoughts on any aspect of it.
Thanks, D
Originally posted at 3:42PM, 13 May 2008 PDT
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Mike Cohn (a group admin) edited this topic 6 weeks ago.
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Without visible faces, and with your family so small in the frame, it doesn't work very well in that area IMO.
The landscape is very nice and the colors are excellent. The people in the frame, however, spoil it for me as a straight landscape photo.
That's from my outsider's point of view. As a memento of a family holiday, it's great. If you go back, you might try reshooting both with the family prominent in the photo, and as a landscape w/o the family.
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I agree with Paul's comments, and would add that the photo has that look of a composite: for some reason I feel like the rocks have been added later! I'm sure that's not the case, but it does have that appearance.
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Thanks for taking the time to post your thoughts.
Paul I also have a straight landscape, which I also initially preferred. (It's been darkened a little in porting from tif to Flickr jpg.)
I was obviously drawn to the colours, but then felt that the image lacked a real subject. Looking through my images, I found the one with wife and baby and realised that they were perfectly positioned...
all the main lines in the shot point to the people. You've got the lines of different layers of colour pointing at them, the shadows in the rocks point at them, the rock on the beach points at them, as does the peninsula in the background.
When shooting people/weddings, the candid style is what I prefer. I like capture people doing what they are doing, as opposed to them doing what I tell them. I like the naturalness of it.
I also like to shoot only giving partial information. Scanning through my flickr portfolio there, I just realised how much I must hate faces. ;)
www.flickr.com/photos/ragnorak/260530946/
www.flickr.com/photos/ragnorak/439759718/
So I guess what I'm saying is that I prefer the one with the people because it tells more of a story, uses the landscape to lead the viewers eye and has hidden depth to it (Only through really looking at the picture would you realise that it is the person sitting next to the photo)
Kieran: The image isn't a composite. Specifically which parts look like a composite? I did do some work on the sky (noise reduction mainly), and may have done a sloppy selection somewhere.
Thanks, D
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The line between sand and rock is I think what I was talking about. It's probably just an artifact of the sand being smooth and so that line being much crisper than we often see in photos.
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Ok, thanks.
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