il mistero bello

[caimi]

Oly EM5 Pan 14-45mm

[OlyPaul]

Re: il mistero bello

The moody impending storm light is great and you did well to catch it, but the out of focus branches in the foreground spoil it for me I'm afraid.

[Ian]

Re: il mistero bello

The light and that sky are superb but I have to agree with Paul about the twigs on the right. I think something intrusive like that can work but it's not right here for me.

Good try though!

Ian

[caimi]

Re: il mistero bello

Well this opens the door for a discussion on what to include and what to exclude in the image doesn't it? So here goes:

It is the contrasting light - sunlight foreground and dark backround - which drew me to photograph this scene in the first place. I took several shots of just the scene. Great light but static image - just a snapshot or a "catch" to use OlyPaul's word. So then I decided to frame it and I was fortunate to find a spot behind a tree where there were alternating dead and live leaves on the branches. I took this image, processed and cropped a bit, and I believe the contrasting leaves in the frame add dimension as well as a subtle comment on what's going on in the whole scene: contrasting light and similar contrasting live and dead leaves in the backround. I think it works.

[mike_j]

Re: il mistero bello

I have mixed feeling about 'framing' with overhead branches. I have done it often enough and it can be effective but it's a bit of a cliche (can't manage the acute accent). If you do it, I think it's best to have the leaves either sharp or totally blurred, not half and half as here.

Lovely sky and field colours though.

[patmoore]

Re: il mistero bello

I have to echo the above sentiments. Love the lighting on the field and the clouds but I find the framing a distraction. I like to take those kinds of shots but they don't always work out as I had planned. Here are a couple of examples.





I'd love to see your shot done as a panorama with no branches and a little less sky. Did you take any other versions that could be cropped like that? Bear in mind I'm still pretty new at this and others might prefer a different approach.

[caimi]

Re: il mistero bello

patmoore,

I think your first example falls into the cliche variety as mentioned above. It looks like a scene you would find in the drugstore postcard rack. Your second is more creative because the frame is actual at the top and reflected at the bottom. I think it works because it goes beyond the simple framing technique. That is what I was trying to achieve as I explained above but it appears, at least in this limited sampling, that some viewers see it as a distraction.