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    Where the wind blows.....!

    Where the wind blows.....!Untitled by sharon reid, on Flickr

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    Re: Where the wind blows.....!

    As usual, lots of drama in the atmosphere, very Daisy Mae.

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    Re: Where the wind blows.....!

    Very nice....but i was never expecting a straight one like this

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    Re: Where the wind blows.....!

    Thank you Izzie.

    Nanda...there's straight and 'straight'

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    Re: Where the wind blows.....!

    As Izzie says, drama in the atmosphere. Definitely lowering!

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    Nah,

    This is not you Sharon. The horizon cuts the shot like a cleaver. The top and bottom halves look like they're from different photos. The sky's uninteresting. It's all too dark. There's really nothing that attracts my eye or imagination. Not for me...

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    Very moody Sharon I especially like the FG bushes, they convey the feeling of a storm.

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    Re: Where the wind blows.....!

    Hi Sharon,

    For me the image works better if (using LyteBox), I move it so that either the top quarter or the bottom third is slid off my screen.

    In other words; crop so the horizon is not across the centre - so we know if the picture is 'supposed' to be of the land or the sky, with the other bit in a supporting role.

    However, may be my analysis is too 'straight'
    I'm that kinda guy, as you know

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    My thoughts are exactly the same as Robert and Dave.

    Of the two choices for a crop, I think I would lose a bit from the bottom and retain that dramatic sky. But doing it the other way around gives more apparent depth to the scene.

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    Re: Where the wind blows.....!

    Interesting...ok !

    I'd choose to crop from the bottom too...but the foreground had such movement in the ( fairly stiff ) Caithness 'breeze' that i felt it deserved a strong place in the shot. The shot is after all about wind..the harnessing of and the effects of. It 'danced ' enchantingly...I was in love.
    Boab, I appreciate your comments ..thank you. I don't however agree that the sky is boring.

    Dave...you say you are 'straight' like it's a bad thing. ...great comments and observations..I agree with you in many ways.

    So

    Where the wind blows.....!Untitled by sharon reid, on Flickr

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    Re: Where the wind blows.....!

    Interesting comments.

    I like the original, but as is known, I enjoy the square format. I think Dave's comment, "In other words; crop so the horizon is not across the centre - so we know if the picture is 'supposed' to be of the land or the sky, with the other bit in a supporting role", also contains the argument for the composition as it is - so that we know the image is about the land AND the sky.

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    Re: Where the wind blows.....!

    Quote Originally Posted by Donald View Post
    Interesting comments.

    I like the original, but as is known, I enjoy the square format. I think Dave's comment, "In other words; crop so the horizon is not across the centre - so we know if the picture is 'supposed' to be of the land or the sky, with the other bit in a supporting role", also contains the argument for the composition as it is - so that we know the image is about the land AND the sky.
    Thank you Donald..appreciate that.

    I did find it disconcerting that I should need to choose a headliner and a support act....that's not how I take pics...and it is not ( at all! ) how the Caithness land/skyscape relationship works.

    They are both strong ( although I know Boab doesn't think so of the sky.)

    The wind..in the clouds...in its presence depicted by the turbines.....and the effect it has on the foreground grasses, to sweep and lift. ..is for me part of the whole.

    I can see where Dave is coming from hence the cropped version...however ..for me at least..it loses the lead in of those windswept grasses..and isn't the shot I wanted.

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    Re: Where the wind blows.....!

    Nice effort, a bit dark in the foreground though.

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    Re: Where the wind blows.....!

    The crop has a better composition balance for me.

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    I like the original. The dance of the windmills came to my mind even before reading your comment. I see all the elements of this image tied together and don't need you to explicitly say it's about one thing or the other. I love that you haven't painted yourself into a corner as an artist.

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    Re: Where the wind blows.....!

    Quote Originally Posted by AndrewMcD View Post
    I like the original. The dance of the windmills came to my mind even before reading your comment. I see all the elements of this image tied together and don't need you to explicitly say it's about one thing or the other. I love that you haven't painted yourself into a corner as an artist.

    Thank you kindly for those words Andrew.

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    Re: Where the wind blows.....!

    I like the feel of this image very much. I do agree with Dave about maybe cropping some off the top.

    Dave

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    I have no idea why but it bothers me that the meeting of land and sky isn't level. Nevertheless the shot speaks to me.

    If it was my shot on my blog it would be the shot (Myra just walked by looked at the shot and went WOW!) to highlight the dangers of believing that science will save us from what science created. You have created a dark and dangerous landscape shot.

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    Thank you Dave...and Brian.

    I am delighted that this shot has instigated such lively discussion and I thank everyone for their contributions to that. Xx

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    Re: Where the wind blows.....!

    Hmmm, an interesting discussion indeed.


    Quote Originally Posted by Daisy Mae
    ~ but the foreground had such movement in the ( fairly stiff ) Caithness 'breeze' that i felt it deserved a strong place in the shot. The shot is after all about wind..the harnessing of and the effects of.
    The thing is, I saw the grass as 'trampled' not wind swept/flattened and since I cannot, in a still image at this shutter speed, see movement, I didn't make the connection.


    Clearly it has been too long since I was that far north* - I have forgotten what a 'stiff breeze' is

    I do Yorkshire every couple of years and have been to Hadrian's Wall from there (within the last decade), but that hardly counts, does it?
    I think I'd have to go back to the mid-eighties to say I had properly visited Scotland.

    Cheers, Dave

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