Jamaika - old tree number 2

[barann]

I posted before a photo from this old tree. Now from a totally different perspective. Lens: 11-22 (Olympus digital).

Part of:

http://barann.zenfolio.com/p242230867/

Martin

[Stephen]

Re: Jamaika - old tree number 2

The trouble with this shot for me is that it could have been taken at lots of places. It says little about where it was taken except in the title. To be honest the picture says little about anything to me. The other shot on the coastline was much better in this respect

[barann]

Re: Jamaika - old tree number 2

You have a point. This picture was intended to be in sequence with the first one - or totally independent as "a tree whereever". The title itself may be critical for this picture seen isolated. But does this make it bad? The first one could have been taken also in Afrika.
A common problem with many "theme pictures",
Martin

[Stephen]

Re: Jamaika - old tree number 2

You have a point. This picture was intended to be in sequence with the first one - or totally independent as "a tree whereever". The title itself may be critical for this picture seen isolated. But does this make it bad? The first one could have been taken also in Afrika.
A common problem with many "theme pictures",
Martin

I wouldn't say it was necessarily a bad photo, but it is not a good one either. It lacks good composition, there is no real point of focus. It is simply a blue sky with some rather underexposed tree branches superimposed over it.

I'd be interested to hear what you had in mind or were trying to achieve when you photographed it

[barann]

Re: Jamaika - old tree number 2

I wouldn't say it was necessarily a bad photo, but it is not a good one either. It lacks good composition, there is no real point of focus. It is simply a blue sky with some rather underexposed tree branches superimposed over it.

I'd be interested to hear what you had in mind or were trying to achieve when you photographed it

Hi, I liked the wide angle perspective - I just like it. Perhaps it is just a matter of taste (I cannot give reasons, but I like this picture, and the focus is everywhere, it is 11 mm and aperture 6 - perhaps I compressed its too much - it is at my wall in poster size, sharp).
But no question, it is part of the whole gallery and I understand if someone else does not like it.

http://barann.zenfolio.com/p242230867/

Martin

[barann]

Re: Jamaika - old tree number 2

The trouble with this shot for me is that it could have been taken at lots of places. It says little about where it was taken except in the title. To be honest the picture says little about anything to me. The other shot on the coastline was much better in this respect

[Stephen]

Re: Jamaika - old tree number 2

Hi Martin, this picture corectly exposed would be more like this However this is not the main issue for me, it has as I said no real point of focus, by this I mean for the viewers eye to rest on. The branches seem for me do not be taken from the best part of the original scene, and I would hardly say they were dynamic in composition. There are distracting elements to it too. I think I would have cloned out some of extra bits of foliage along the bottom of the image. I have done a crop on the scene and attempted to make the image a little more dynamic, in my opinion

I'm not too sure you have quoted your camera settings right either. By looking at the Exif Data on your picture It was taken at 14mm which on your camera is 28mm equivalent, also the aperture was f.5 But there is no problem with either of these

These things are often a matter of personal taste, and I don't wish to be argumentative about it, or appear to be destructive in my comments, I am simply trying to help and explain my opinions as I see them and which you asked for. Please do not be discouraged, I would like to see some more of your work posted here.

[barann]

Re: Jamaika - old tree number 2

Stephen, thank you for all the help. I was a little bit lasy in telling the settings out of my memory, sorry. I like the crop you did. I now also recognize a main difference between our taste: Sometimes I like these restless, somehow chaotic scenes, where you will miss the point the eye can rest on (but I know that these pictures sometimes are a little bit beyond the rules). And this might be one point why the first picture for you is better. Another point still that I like to look at the sequence about the tree, that it can mirror rest and restless atmosphere. I totally understand you,
Martin