Walking under a gloomy sky

[mugge]

I was at a local railway station when I spotted this girl walking along on the upposite platform. I liked her carefree manner. I did create a more dramatic sky than it was in reality for a more dramatic effect. C&C welcome.

[Shadowman]

Nicely captured, timing a bit off as the lamppost extends from her shoulders. I was doing a similar study and relied on an older model camera's fps to capture sequence of subject's gait. Do you have any more from this series?

[Donald]

I think the concept and vision is bang on for this image. Love the idea.

I wonder if the sky has been over dramatised to the extent it is taking attention away from the main subject, the girl. And because it has been over-dramatised, everything going into the sky has halos around it.

And the girl - One step further forward and she would not have the pole coming out from the neck of her jacket.

[mugge]

Nicely captured, timing a bit off as the lamppost extends from her shoulders. I was doing a similar study and relied on an older model camera's fps to capture sequence of subject's gait. Do you have any more from this series?

That was what bothered me the most and, unfortunately, I do not have any more shots.

[mugge]

I think the concept and vision is bang on for this image. Love the idea.

I wonder if the sky has been over dramatised to the extent it is taking attention away from the main subject, the girl. And because it has been over-dramatised, everything going into the sky has halos around it.

And the girl - One step further forward and she would not have the pole coming out from the neck of her jacket.

Donald, I am quite happy with the sky being a 'bit much' it is that darn pole

[Donald]

Donald, I am quite happy with the sky being a 'bit much' it is that darn pole

In which case, you'd need to work on the halos.

[zebra]

A nice photo!

[Round Tuit]

You could try to clone out part of the pole to make it appear to be behind the house like the one on the far left. I agree with Donald that the halos have to go. Otherwise a nice photo.

[Manfred M]

I have to agree with the others. The clouds are just so over the top that they detract from the rest of the image. As a general rule, once one sees halos, that is definitely a sign of having pushed an image too hard.

The other is what Henri Cartier-Bresson described as the "decisive moment". Had you held of pressing the shutter release for about a second longer, your subject would have cleared the pole and the image would have been a lot stronger.