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Old 12-18-2009, 04:49 AM
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Default The Road Less Traveled- move from critique

The Road Less Traveled


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Exposure: 0.002 sec (1/500)
Aperture: f/5.6
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Exposure Bias: 0 EV
Flash: Off, Did not fire
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Old 12-18-2009, 09:56 AM
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Good concept, stood there many times. Make it stronger in 2 ways. First, up the contrast (yea, I like Ansel Adams for b&w). Make the blacks blacker. How bright to take the snow under clouds determines mood, your artistic call. Second, composition. Rotate the shot to shoot down the rails, not off to the right. But step one way or the other. Make the left rail (or the right) vertical with the other converging. Or shoot dead center down the track, both rails converging. What's not showing on the left could influence composition, or even if the shoot point is a bit further up the track

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Outstanding picture captured by you.
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Old 12-18-2009, 07:57 PM
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Like how the tracks make an infinity line
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Old 12-18-2009, 08:15 PM
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Great shot Andrew. I like the uncluttered simplicity and perspective. A good example. PAUL
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Love this shot - lines everywhere! Great PP too. Wonderful perspective.
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Andrew, this is really fabulous...the book by that name is also wonderful.
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Beautiful shot, a very effective cpmposition and nice pp work on it. TFS

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wonderful, well done keep it up!
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There's such a sense of loneliness here -- I think of another line by Robert Frost, "...I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep." Wonderful photo -- thanks for sharing it.
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