Tear it up

[jkenzie]

Well, let's have it.:D
http://jkenzie.smugmug.com/photos/198791474-L.jpg (http://www.smugmug.com/photos/newexif.mg?ImageID=198791474)

[Felicia]

This is an interesting shot. However, there are some elements which are bothering me.

- Those blue stripes at the bottom keep drawing my eyes and distracting me from the light and the plant. I keep wondering what in the world they are? How about cropping in above the lights to the edge of the table.

- The plant stand or whatever it is on the right is also distracting. Could you re-shoot without it?

- The light has an odd fall-off right above it. I think cropping in right at that drop off would bring the focus back to the light and plant.

Mis dos centavos.

[DaddyO]

I like the potential in the photo. Nice warm color. Interesting elements.

For me its a photo trying to say something but just isn't quite there saying it large, high impact.

For me I want to rearrange the plant and chair better coordinating them with the light fixture. The black void above the wall doesn't seem to work.
The dark area upper right does a good job balancing the light moving into shadow. The blue light lines seem out of place. Something of a surprise and not lending to the photo? They are interesting though. The reflections don't seem to add / enhance. Not enough there so I would crop that out also.

If you have to show pool leave the blue lines and reflection in. Just crop out the black area above the wall. IMO :D

[jkenzie]

I've cropped out the distractions, Does it work any better?
Not much I can do about the chair for now, I will try to reshoot it when I'm back down in Baja. I would also like to bring out more texture on the wall.
http://jkenzie.smugmug.com/photos/201817970-L.jpg (http://www.smugmug.com/photos/newexif.mg?ImageID=201817970)

[Felicia]

Oh! That was by a pool and that was a CHAIR not a plant stand! I like the edited version better. What if you cropped the chair out entirely. That might lend some interesting tension by having the plant slightly cut off.:dunno

[Icebear]

OK, now I get it. There was no way in the original image to know it was taken at a pool. Instead of cropping out the context, how 'bout rippling the water? Then we'd know what the photo was about.

[Gary Glass]

You have the makings of a good shot here. I would reshoot with the framing of version #1 in mind but: on a windless night so the leaves are sharp, but most importantly, put a model (and a little more light) on the lounger.