Sunset at the drainage ditch

[The Weird Witch]

Taken at sunset at the nearby "lake" (read drainage ditch).
Thoughts?

[summerbreezing]

Love the colours and composition. Makes an 'ordinary' site special!

[neilwood]

Has the makings of a good shot, nicely framed etc but unfortunately the framing with the trees that would normally make the shot has actually drawn attention to the pylons etc at the back - not really what you want im guessing.

If you can either clone them out or take a similar shot from another angle (without the pylons), it would make it a far better photo.

[jiminyClickit]

The Weird Witch,

Call me difficult, but I was hoping for some Sun. In a setting position, with clouds all golden. If you were standing in front of that little tree in the middle, facing back toward the place you stood while taking this, I'll bet that would have outshone the ditch. You might even have gotten a decent reflection from the standing water (lake).

My thoughts are: more needed to go into the making of the image.

[The Weird Witch]

Originally Posted by jiminyClickit

The Weird Witch,

Call me difficult, but I was hoping for some Sun. In a setting position, with clouds all golden. If you were standing in front of that little tree in the middle, facing back toward the place you stood while taking this, I'll bet that would have outshone the ditch. You might even have gotten a decent reflection from the standing water (lake).

My thoughts are: more needed to go into the making of the image.

I could try re-shooting from where you mention, however you will get a picture of a rather dull gray city plus a rather busy highway But Ill try and find you a nice sunset over the top of that (afterall the more polluted the air the prettier the colours in the sunset right).
You're right though that my image does need more thought to it, I gotta admit the reason I took it was that I found the shadows interesting.
Thanks as always

[jiminyClickit]

The Weird Witch,

Do anything for the image you can, but not because I describe something I believe would look better. I won't suggest something to get you to see it my way. The image is separate from that, it has characteristics that can be adjusted a thousand ways, and your final decisions will make it what it is.

Your shadows are among the more interesting images there, and if you isolated one tree, gave it importance in the composition, framed it with its shadow, you could emphasize the thing that drew you there. A closer view would bring out more of the sunlit branches, giving the title more validity without an actual Sun in the photo. Like shooting the child's smile, instead of the parent making the faces he's smiling at.

If you were taking the same shot and panned right beyond the right-leaning tree, what's there?

[The Weird Witch]

Originally Posted by jiminyClickit

The Weird Witch,

Do anything for the image you can, but not because I describe something I believe would look better. I won't suggest something to get you to see it my way. The image is separate from that, it has characteristics that can be adjusted a thousand ways, and your final decisions will make it what it is.

Your shadows are among the more interesting images there, and if you isolated one tree, gave it importance in the composition, framed it with its shadow, you could emphasize the thing that drew you there. A closer view would bring out more of the sunlit branches, giving the title more validity without an actual Sun in the photo. Like shooting the child's smile, instead of the parent making the faces he's smiling at.

If you were taking the same shot and panned right beyond the right-leaning tree, what's there?

I see what you're saying here.
I think I'll play more with what I have, see if I can't put more emhasis on the interesting shadows.

To the right there is a walking track (from where the image was taken) then back to the city. My drainage ditch is only a few meters wide ribbon of nature (when campared to its location).