It is a very nice image, and I\'m somewhat thinking I should just and say not much else. But, since you are going to be heavily invested into this image ... I\'d have a few questions @ what do you want for your focal point/intent/mood/etc. What is the message you are trying to convey to your viewer? What is it you want them to see/feel/think? The answers to these will then determine what changes (or none) I might suggest. But, without any other input, a few things come to mind.
+1 @ too much sky drawing us upward too far, taking away from the height of the gorge. I\'d look to crop down and rebalance to re-weight the mass of the cliff.
The buoys would be a candidate for cloning. I realize they are \"really there\", but a camera position of slight variance would have blocked them from view, so cloning them out is no biggie for me.
The contrast for the scene seems fairly low (which is fine for mood), but the house seems to be more stark in contrast ... kind of incongruous/unnatural looking a smidgeon.
I\'ve got some other thoughts, but without better knowing your intended direction for the piece, I\'ll hold them back in case they are a direction counter to your goals. Lots of ways you can go, here\'s a partial (needs more work) regarding how I might take it (would need the rgb/raw to really work it), but you get the gist @ more foreground detail and re-weight/rebalance the sky crop..
It is a very nice image, and I\'m somewhat thinking I should just and say not much else. But, since you are going to be heavily invested into this image ... I\'d have a few questions @ what do you want for your focal point/intent/mood/etc. What is the message you are trying to convey to your viewer? What is it you want them to see/feel/think? The answers to these will then determine what changes (or none) I might suggest. But, without any other input, a few things come to mind.
+1 @ too much sky drawing us upward too far, taking away from the height of the gorge. I\'d look to crop down and rebalance to re-weight the mass of the cliff.
The buoys would be a candidate for cloning. I realize they are \"really there\", but a camera position of slight variance would have blocked them from view, so cloning them out is no biggie for me.
The contrast for the scene seems fairly low (which is fine for mood), but the house seems to be more stark in contrast ... kind of incongruous/unnatural looking a smidgeon.
I\'ve got some other thoughts, but without better knowing your intended direction for the piece, I\'ll hold them back in case they are a direction counter to your goals. Lots of ways you can go, here\'s a partial (needs more work) regarding how I might take it (would need the rgb/raw to really work it), but you get the gist @ more foreground detail and re-weight/rebalance the sky crop..
It is a very nice image, and I\'m somewhat thinking I should just and say not much else. But, since you are going to be heavily invested into this image ... I\'d have a few questions @ what do you want for your focal point/intent/mood/etc. What is the message you are trying to convey to your viewer? What is it you want them to see/feel/think? The answers to these will then determine what changes (or none) I might suggest. But, without any other input, a few things come to mind.
+1 @ too much sky drawing us upward too far, taking away from the height of the gorge. I\'d look to crop down and rebalance to re-weight the mass of the cliff.
The buoys would be a candidate for cloning. I realize they are \"really there\", but a camera position of slight variance would have blocked them from view, so cloning them out is no biggie for me.
The contrast for the scene seems fairly low (which is fine for mood), but the house seems to be more stark in contrast ... kind of incongruous/unnatural looking a smidgeon.
I\'ve got some other thoughts, but without better knowing your intended direction for the piece, I\'ll hold them back in case they are a direction counter to your goals. Lots of ways you can go, here\'s a partial (needs more work) regarding how I might take it (would need the rgb/raw to really work it), but you get the gist @ more foreground detail and re-weight/rebalance the sky crop..
It is a very nice image, and I\'m somewhat thinking I should just and say not much else. But, since you are going to be heavily invested into this image ... I\'d have a few questions @ what do you want for your focal point/intent/mood/etc. What is the message you are trying to convey to your viewer? What is it you want them to see/feel/think? The answers to these will then determine what changes (or none) I might suggest. But, without any other input, a few things come to mind.
+1 @ too much sky drawing us upward too far, taking away from the height of the gorge. I\'d look to crop down and rebalance to re-weight the mass of the cliff.
The buoys would be a candidate for cloning. I realize they are \"really there\", but a camera position of slight variance would have blocked them from view, so cloning them out is no biggie for me.
The contrast for the scene seems fairly low (which is fine for mood), but the house seems to be more stark in contrast ... kind of incongruous/unnatural looking a smidgeon.
I\'ve got some other thoughts, but without better knowing your intended direction for the piece, I\'ll hold them back in case they are a direction counter to your goals. Lots of ways you can go, here\'s a partial (needs more work) regarding how I might take it (would need the rgb/raw to really work it), but you get the gist @ more foreground detail and re-weight/rebalance the sky crop..
It is a very nice image, and I\'m somewhat thinking I should just and say not much else. But, since you are going to be heavily invested into this image ... I\'d have a few questions @ what do you want for your focal point/intent/mood/etc. What is the message you are trying to convey to your viewer? What is it you want them to see/feel/think? The answers to these will then determine what changes (or none) I might suggest. But, without any other input, a few things come to mind.
+1 @ too much sky drawing us upward too far, taking away from the height of the gorge. I\'d look to crop down and rebalance to re-weight the mass of the cliff.
The buoys would be a candidate for cloning. I realize they are \"really there\", but a camera position of slight variance would have blocked them from view, so cloning them out is no biggie for me.
The contrast for the scene seems fairly low (which is fine for mood), but the house seems to be more stark in contrast ... kind of incongruous/unnatural looking a smidgeon.
I\'ve got some other thoughts, but without better knowing your intended direction for the piece, I\'ll hold them back in case they are a direction counter to your goals. Lots of ways you can go, here\'s a partial regarding how I might take it (would need the rgb/raw to really work it), but you get the gist @ more foreground detail.
It is a very nice image, and I\'m somewhat thinking I should just and say not much else. But, since you are going to be heavily invested into this image ... I\'d have a few questions @ what do you want for your focal point/intent/mood/etc. What is the message you are trying to convey to your viewer? What is it you want them to see/feel/think? The answers to these will then determine what changes (or none) I might suggest. But, without any other input, a few things come to mind.
+1 @ too much sky drawing us upward too far, taking away from the height of the gorge. I\'d look to crop down and rebalance to re-weight the mass of the cliff.
The buoys would be a candidate for cloning. I realize they are \"really there\", but a camera position of slight variance would have blocked them from view, so cloning them out is no biggie for me.
The contrast for the scene seems fairly low (which is fine for mood), but the house seems to be more stark in contrast ... kind of incongruous/unnatural looking a smidgeon.
I\'ve got some other thoughts, but without better knowing your intended direction for the piece, I\'ll hold them back in case they are a direction counter to your goals.
May 27, 2013 at 08:11 PM
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and say not much else. But, since you are going to be heavily invested into this image ... I\'d have a few questions @ what do you want for your focal point/intent/mood/etc. What is the message you are trying to convey to your viewer? What is it you want them to see/feel/think? The answers to these will then determine what changes (or none) I might suggest. But, without any other input, a few things come to mind.