Statue of Liberty shot

[joepa99]

Taken at the base of the Statue. With my Pentax ist DS and 80-320 lens. A couple of specific questions:

1) Should I have included the entire crown in the shot?
2) Should I take out the clouds? Can't really decide if they are distracting or not.

Any other critique is welcomed. Thanks
chris_grissom08.jpg

[basselal]

Just to address your specific questions:

1) I think it is appropriate (to me personally even preferable) to cut a little of the edges in extreme close ups. In my opinion this is a better shot than if you included the whole corwn.
2) I don’t have an opinion either way about the cloud. Maybe if they were not too bright they will be less of a distraction but I don’t think it’s a big deal. Maybe lower the highlights (within a small range) a little bit and see if it is better.
I like it.

[EOBeav]

The clouds aren't necessarily distracting, but they are blown out and don't look like they belong. I would either fix it by removing them, or by replacing them with more more interesting looking clouds. I don't know what your experience is with editing photos, but it's more easy than you might think in either photoshop or gimp.

[GadgetRick]

Composition is fine. Clouds are blown as others have said. Other than that, I like it.

[windrider86]

Any chance of seeing your exif?

[joepa99]

EXIF Info:

1/500 @f8

240mm focal length

iso 200