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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Horoscope Fish" data-source="post: 197808" data-attributes="member: 13090">Of the five shots you posted the three on the left numbers 1, 3 and 5, are your strongest. The ones on the right have a disjointed, snapshot sort of quality to them. The crooked horizon line killed shot #2 for me while #4 had me searching for a subject. That big white arrow wants to lead my eye right out of the frame in #4 as well and that's not helping. The three shots making up the left column are much stronger. Shots #1 and #3 have very strong, organic, leading lines that deliver a pretty hefty payload thanks to some good composition. You leave some room on the left edge for my eye to fall on so I'm not lead off the edge and out of the shot. An anchoring element in both helps here as well, it just so happens they're trees in both shots, not that matters. I love the white boat in shot #1. The leading line effect is especially powerful in shot #3 with the looming tower on the right and the subordinate elements trailing left. Also some very nice composition. This shot also has a nice foreground vs background distribution with 2/3 horizon and 1/3 foreground. Shot #5 I like but I'd like it a whole lot better without all the electrical apparatus attached to/hanging off the tree. It's a minor thing but it interjects technology, if you will, in an otherwise idyllic and natural scene. This shot is why God created "content aware" tools in Photoshop... Too salvage shots like this one. Okay, maybe that's just the Irish Coffee talking but really, little s--t like that can really get under my skin. It's still a strong, well composed shot.......</blockquote>

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