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

[bryree.livejournal.com]

Yeah, the crane in the second picture (to me) is what damages it the most. That wonderful diagonal pull from tower to tower is broken, but not broken hard enough for it to be a ZOMG-there-is-modern-stuff-how-juxtapose-y/commentary-y....y. I would love to see a retake w/o the crane. I'm sure you could get the weather and everything else to co-operate...:)

The third is quite nice.

The first...what I finally figured was that my eye wanted most of the bottom gone - really about the bottom third as it is posted. The line extended from just below the bottom of the tower on the left across the middle building (eliminating most to all of the darker path/road beneath it leaving just the lighter top of it)to just below the line dividing the light/dark areas of the house on the far right. It makes the pic very long-and-skinny, but that is how I liked it best.