Opinions Wanted

[toosuto]

I've taken quite a few landscape shots since I've been in Scotland but more often than not I've ended up deleting them (or best just burying them in iPhoto and never looking again). Behind the cut are three shots from Castle Edinburgh and if you have an opinion on what works and what doesn't I'd like to hear it because I just don't seem to have a handle on it.

A word of warning I may have edited and reloaded the photos based on previous feedback, just in case a any of the feedback below seems strange or just wrong. Also concrete answers, of course, are much better than general comments (i.e. "the crane in the second picture breaks up the flow of the photo from point a to point b" rather than "the crane gives me hives").

Comments

[k8cre8.livejournal.com]

I sorta like the top one, less as a photo, but, as sorta a historical/memory record. It *is* packed, but, it's also got sharp, clear images of all the buildings. One of the things I realized from my photos of Germany was that I liked have at least a few of those in the mix, since they bring back so much memory-wise.

The middle one has a composition along the diagonal, but, that's the only thing I could find that "unified" it. The obvious thing drawing the focus is the tower, which, is obscured by the trees, which a sorta "speed bump" of the crane. As you scan it, your eyes are pulled to the tower, it hits the crane, and it's like, "that's not what the composition's prepping me for, I *know* there's something big lurking in the edge of this photo!" and then, you hit the tower, and it's sorta an anti-climax.

The bottom one I think, is the best of the lot, It has a nice composition on the diagonal as well, which is partially from the lines of the roads and traffic paths. There's also the strong lines of the two prominant buildings going along the other diagonal. I was noticing, it was well balanced almost anyway you divide it.