Nicely seen and captured. Position of runner between trees is nice timing. Scale of runner gives relationship to the runners world.
Primary nit is the warm and bright sun competes very strongly. Suggestion is to reduce warmth. That can be to either pull down the saturation in the warm hues, or to shift the warm hues toward cool or neutral.
This will reduce the hue contrast, and reduce the strength of pull / draw to the sun ... shifting balance toward runner a kiss or two.
All mono is an option, but the dull, cool speaks well to the morning hour and cool condition. I think it is worth retaining the cool.
Alternatively, crop just below the sun and go pano ... With the runner running into the length of the scene. This may further shift balance to the runner, and yet retain the atmospheric conditions so well captured ... I think the viewer gets the presence without the expanse of sun / sky.
RustyBug wrote:
Nicely seen and captured. Position of runner between trees is nice timing. Scale of runner gives relationship to the runners world.
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There are lots of assumptions here.
I do like the photo. It has a mood and a different sort of feel. Nicely done.
Very nice image, well seen and presented. It has a pleasing, misty, peaceful mood and I really like the overall tonal rendition.
However, I find the sun being overpowering, intruding and fighting against the image mood. Feels almost as if it doesn't belong to the image,
I believe reducing the presence and brightness of the sun will help the mood of the image.
Apart from that I find your image very appealing and moody. Nice job.
I don’t see this as being about the runner. It is about the trees, or park, or whatever. The sun and the runner are focal points that serve to pull the viewers eyes around what would be an uninteresting image without them. Had it been about the runner, you probably would have zeroed in, and made the runner much more prominent in the photo.
Looks great to me. I really love a good story telling image like this one. I like the juxtaposition of the bright sun and the dark silhouette which I think adds a very interesting balance to the composition, and I also think the warm tones of the sunlight contrast and compliment the cold tone of the rest of the image. There are a number of visual points of interest in this image, but I think they all work well together to make an overall interesting and quality shot. Really well done.
RustyBug wrote:
Nicely seen and captured. Position of runner between trees is nice timing. Scale of runner gives relationship to the runners world.
Primary nit is the warm and bright sun competes very strongly. Suggestion is to reduce warmth. That can be to either pull down the saturation in the warm hues, or to shift the warm hues toward cool or neutral.
This will reduce the hue contrast, and reduce the strength of pull / draw to the sun ... shifting balance toward runner a kiss or two.
All mono is an option, but the dull, cool speaks well to the morning hour and cool condition. I think it is worth retaining the cool.
Alternatively, crop just below the sun and go pano ... With the runner running into the length of the scene. This may further shift balance to the runner, and yet retain the atmospheric conditions so well captured ... I think the viewer gets the presence without the expanse of sun / sky....Show more →
The color of the sun was interesting in comparison to the rest of the shot. I think the difference in warmth and cool was one of the things that drew me to the scene (I have a similar shot with no humans, only the fog and trees that same morning where it goes from warm to cool, left to right). I tried reducing color around the sun and see your point.
Camperjim wrote:
There are lots of assumptions here.
I do like the photo. It has a mood and a different sort of feel. Nicely done.
Thanks Jim. As stated above, the mood with the fog, and contrasting feel, drew me into the scene. Saw the runner coming from behind the tree and moved quickly to get into position. I was on single focus so the runner is slightly out of focus after I first hit the AF-On button but that's a really minor, especially at web sizes.
Shasoc wrote:
Very nice image, well seen and presented. It has a pleasing, misty, peaceful mood and I really like the overall tonal rendition.
However, I find the sun being overpowering, intruding and fighting against the image mood. Feels almost as if it doesn't belong to the image,
I believe reducing the presence and brightness of the sun will help the mood of the image.
Apart from that I find your image very appealing and moody. Nice job.
Socrate
Thanks for the comment Socrate. I tried your suggestion with a quick radial filter in LR, will need more time to make appear more natural. I can't quite figure yet how to make it natural looking to my eye.
I don’t see this as being about the runner. It is about the trees, or park, or whatever. The sun and the runner are focal points that serve to pull the viewers eyes around what would be an uninteresting image without them. Had it been about the runner, you probably would have zeroed in, and made the runner much more prominent in the photo.
A photo about a runner would look more like this:
Thanks grandmas. I was not thinking runner when I took the shot; rather, seeing the runner approaching from behind the trees gave me an idea to include him just for some scale, dynamics, and human interest to the overall mood shot of the sunrise filtering through the mist and the layered tones in the trees.
DanielScott wrote:
Looks great to me. I really love a good story telling image like this one. I like the juxtaposition of the bright sun and the dark silhouette which I think adds a very interesting balance to the composition, and I also think the warm tones of the sunlight contrast and compliment the cold tone of the rest of the image. There are a number of visual points of interest in this image, but I think they all work well together to make an overall interesting and quality shot. Really well done.
Daniel, you've just about captured my thoughts when I looked at the scene. The runner was a fine bonus.
I really like the original because you have caught a naturally lighted scene that appears B&W!
The others are equally fine but as I stated you caught, in the original, a natural phenomenom.
Well done!
Dan
I love this photo. I scrolled back and forth between original and new crop. While I do like the tighter crop, I still like the original with color and all, the best. Really nice.
Jim, Dan, David, appreciate you sharing your thoughts on which version you prefer, and why. It a good reason to post in this forum, I learn from the feedback.
... multiple options and still looks good. 