I know it is very classical view, but I am interesting what do you think about this picture. Big compressesion ratio was used to meet file size smaller than 50kb. Better quality picture you can see HERE.

-- Stanislav Kaczor (stanislav.kaczor@kabelplus.cz), November 05, 1998

Answers

Framing this scene might have been a good idea but the subject you used to frame it doesn't quit work for me, also, the chopped-off upper part of the tree bothers me. For a vertical it looks a bit square, which part did you crop ?

-- Jan van Bodegraven (janvnbdg@mandic.com.br), November 05, 1998.

Thanks for your comment. It was cropped from left and right sides only to reach this square format.

-- Stanislav Kaczor (stanislav.kaczor@kabelplus.cz), November 06, 1998.

Getting the tree all in would improve it. Nice colours!

-- Paul Lenson (lenson@pci.on.ca), November 06, 1998.

Four things...

1) Nice shot.

2) The part of the tree exiting the top of the frame is distrcting. I'm not sure how it would look without it, but somehow only having part of it in there is distracting.

3) I would have change the angle of view a little bit so that the very bottom bent branch on the tree wasn't slightly overlapping the beginning of the "mound" of the monument. Having the two come together like that is a little distracting from both subject items.

4) The sky. Not sure if turning it a little darker using a polarizer wold have helped, because there is a lot of spread out cloud cover. But I would have been interested to see one with and one without to see if there was any improvement.

John

-- John Olszewski (jto1@aol.com), November 07, 1998.

Thanks for another comments.
It was my intention to have only part of the tree at the top. The whole tree = another competitive subject in the picture. It would be more distracting (IMO)
to John: ... 3) Yes, I think you are right - but changing the angle of the view would change the position of the two top branches and I didn't want it.

-- Stanislav Kaczor (stanislav.kaczor@kabelplus.cz), November 09, 1998.