New guy on the block

[Richard]

Hi DGrinners,

I am going to take a deep breath, cross my fingers and post my first pic here. This is an image I shot last month in Cordoba, Spain. Not exactly sure why, but I have not been able to get it out of my mind.

http://rsinmadrid.smugmug.com/photos/22410732-M.jpg

What do you think?

[lynnma]

Hi DGrinners,

I am going to take a deep breath, cross my fingers and post my first pic here. This is an image I shot last month in Cordoba, Spain. Not exactly sure why, but I have not been able to get it out of my mind.
What do you think?Hi Richard :wave Welcome!!

I really like this shot..I found it interesting.. I like the person striding into it as well. Very nice.
http://rsinmadrid.smugmug.com/photos/22410732-S.jpg

[johno]

Your very brave to post your first pic and ask what people think about it... My first shot was a picture of my son... No one would say anything but, "nice picture," "cute kid." I knew it was safe.

However, the second pictures really got the comments when I asked, "what do you think?" :D

So, remember, everyone here is trying to be helpful... This has been the best forum group I have ever come across.

Now, about your picture...

Preface... I am no professional, so what I say is more feeling than structure.

The photo is nice and I like the colors... But, something in it distracts me. I don't know if it's the shadow on the bottom or the half woman coming into the picture.

Maybe its the woman. It's like you were going to take a beautiful shot of your family staged in front of a wonderful setting and some unaware person stepped into your field of view... oops!

If your capture of the woman was on purpose, I would have liked to have seen the whole person.

Just my novice view.

peace.
johno~

[Richard]

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The photo is nice and I like the colors... But, something in it distracts me. I don't know if it's the shadow on the bottom or the half woman coming into the picture.

Maybe its the woman. It's like you were going to take a beautiful shot of your family staged in front of a wonderful setting and some unaware person stepped into your field of view... oops!

If your capture of the woman was on purpose, I would have liked to have seen the whole person.

Just my novice view.

peace.
johno~ Johno,

Thanks for the comments. I, too, am a novice and many of my best shots so far have been accidents, not because I carefully planned them. What caught my eye in this pic were the light and colors of the building. There was something vaguely surrealistic about it (or maybe I was just too hot and thirsty at the time). The woman was an accident and I didn't even realize she was in the frame till later. It would have been easy enough to crop her out, but I felt that having only part of her entering the scene added to a sense of mystery that the scene conveys. Maybe I was still too hot and thirsty when I edited it.:D

[behr655]

Very nice shot but I think the woman not being fully in frame distracts from it. Unfurtunately if you crop her out it will cut into that first door. Maybe you could photoshop her out.Bear

[Richard]

Very nice shot but I think the woman not being fully in frame distracts from it. Unfurtunately if you crop her out it will cut into that first door. Maybe you could photoshop her out.Bear OK, so that's two people who think the woman is distracting. I tried cropping her out, but I didn't like the results. The clone stamp gave better results (if you don't look too closely). I tweaked a couple of other things while I was there and here's the new version.

http://rsinmadrid.smugmug.com/photos/24483565-M.jpg

I am really not sure whether I like this one better than the first, though. Do you?

Cheers,

[Shay Stephens]

You have here good diagonal lines which always tend to convey energy or action in a shot. You have some interesting color contrasts too in the walls that also adds to the diagonal effect. The lines clearly converge off to the left of the frame.

But you also have a briskly walking lady coming into the frame and traveling in the direction of the diagonal lines convergence which adds to the visual effect. Her energy adds to that of the rest of the frame for a compelling visual experience.

One thing is for sure, you don't have a boring photo here, it does get the viewers attention. I think if you worked this scene some more, with those thoughts in mind, you could create even more powerful visualizations and a stronger more powerful photo.

Hi DGrinners,

I am going to take a deep breath, cross my fingers and post my first pic here. This is an image I shot last month in Cordoba, Spain. Not exactly sure why, but I have not been able to get it out of my mind.

http://rsinmadrid.smugmug.com/photos/22410732-M.jpg

What do you think?

[wxwax]

Love your analysis, Shay, really helps me.:thumb

[Richard]

Hi DGrinners,

I am going to take a deep breath, cross my fingers and post my first pic here. This is an image I shot last month in Cordoba, Spain. Not exactly sure why, but I have not been able to get it out of my mind.

http://rsinmadrid.smugmug.com/photos/22410732-M.jpg

What do you think? Thanks ever so much to everyone who has commented. I found something useful in each of the notes and after thinking hard, here is what I came up with:

http://rsinmadrid.smugmug.com/photos/24540593-M.jpg

I like this one better than the version I first posted. You’re all hired :thumb




Cheers,