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Here is my shot, please comment on composition If you have some other remarks, please feel free to say it.



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Old 10-12-2011, 06:42 PM
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What is your subject here? There's really nothing interesting to focus on. Perhaps if you could have shot closer to the tree silhouettes and gotten a starburst effect with the sun coming through? Otherwise it's kind of blah and you have some distracting elements on the left side that should have been cloned or cropped out ... try a tighter crop ...
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Thank you for your comment. Focal should be the sun. It was not possible to get closer to the trees and take take a photo with sun. The place i took a shot was on a valley, so if i would go closer to the trees, i would be in the shadow. But i got your point.
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The taller trees make a decent silhouette, but the lower, thicker trees and bushes are really hurting the shot. Plus, there a huge dark area with no detail. A better vantage point is needed.
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I agree with crockny and Krusty, particularly about the dark foreground area that takes up about the lower third of the image but provides nothing to look at. Just to see what it would be like, you might try cropping out the lower third and some of the left, allowing the taller trees and the sun to more dominate the image.
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Old 10-13-2011, 07:53 PM
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Agreed a tighter crop would give the image more of a focal point. You could enhance the star burst effect by either blocking the sun a little more with one of the limbs or trunk or closing down your aperture further.
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Thank You very much for Your comments. I appreciate that.
Here I tried to cut bottom of the picture as You suggested.
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