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Old 11-05-2007, 05:27 PM
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My first photo post. Thanks in advance for comments.

Autumn vinyard
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Old 11-05-2007, 05:57 PM
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Now *that* is what I miss from back home. I grew up just over the hill from you, in Calistoga, smack dab in the middle of the family-owned vineyard.
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Old 11-06-2007, 12:32 AM
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Welcome to the group. Nice shot using several lines and curves that keeps your eye in the photo. Tone-wise, the abundance of many similar shades of yellow give it a flatter look. Good eye for composition.
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As Lee noted, the curves and lines look great. It might be worth playing with the colours a bit to push up the contrast a bit. Another possibility would be cropping a bit off the bottom to give a wider format. You could roughly balance the green of the foreground with the distant hills - that would still given enough lead-in for the curve but avoid the weight of relatively uninteresting and slightly blurred leaf strewn grass drawing the eye down rather than into the photo.

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