My Favorite Place

[baddness]

This is my favorite place to walk and take pictures
Comments and Critiques please

[tirediron]

Very nicely done! My only suggestion, and it's a very niggly one, would be to perhaps crop off the little bit of ocean you can see on the RH side of the image.

[Marko]

Hmmmm...I don't really find anything really wrong with this image...but it's missing something. My eye just lands up in the dead center of the image. It's not being led enough with curves or lines.

I think that if the 'path' toward the water were longer and not so centered, the image would be more dynamic.

Hope that helps,

Marko

[baddness]

Thanks for the reply guys.

I just noticed the ocean on the right side after you pointed it out, tirediron. I will have to rework that one

Marko, I have other shots with the path a bit longer but weren't centered, also the horizon was a bit slanted. The centre thing is because that has been preached to me for a lot of years. I guess I have to think outside of the box

[baddness]

Ok, the path on this shot is longer and not centered. C & C

[Travis]

viewing this image gives me a desire to rip a dirt bike off the hill on the right... I'm not particularly sure why... I don't even ride dirt bikes

I'm sorry I have nothing technical to offer.... but the picture did move me in some way

edit: I like the perspective of the first image as opposed to the second... the second is too far back... yay! I did end up having something technical to offer...

[Marko]

I too, prefer the first image - and like i said it's not a bad shot, it could just be more dynamic. A fuller understanding of some of the rules of composition might help in this respect.

In terms of always centering stuff - UNlearn that one fast.

Last year we did a couple of podcasts on composition and they might help you...

Here's one that talks about the rule of thirds and NOT centering images
http://www.photography.ca/blog/?p=52

Leading lines - http://www.photography.ca/blog/?p=51
patterns - http://www.photography.ca/blog/?p=50

Hope they help,

Marko

[baddness]

viewing this image gives me a desire to rip a dirt bike off the hill on the right... I'm not particularly sure why... I don't even ride dirt bikes

I'm sorry I have nothing technical to offer.... but the picture did move me in some way

edit: I like the perspective of the first image as opposed to the second... the second is too far back... yay! I did end up having something technical to offer...

There use to be dirt bikes, wheelers (quads) and trucks go down on that beach and on the dunes, yes trucks to. They were tearing up the beach, but now with the price of gas, I guess nobody can afford to do that anymore.

Thanks for the reply

[baddness]

I too, prefer the first image - and like i said it's not a bad shot, it could just be more dynamic. A fuller understanding of some of the rules of composition might help in this respect.

In terms of always centering stuff - UNlearn that one fast.

Last year we did a couple of podcasts on composition and they might help you...

Here's one that talks about the rule of thirds and NOT centering images
http://www.photography.ca/blog/?p=52

Leading lines - http://www.photography.ca/blog/?p=51
patterns - http://www.photography.ca/blog/?p=50

Hope they help,


Marko

Thanks for the links Marko.
I have found a lot of information on this website that has answered questions.
Very informative