Winter Morning

Cades Cove, Great Smokies National Park. Nikon F5, 80-200/2.8

-- Joe Boyd (boydjw@traveller.com), March 06, 1999

Answers

-- Joe Boyd (boydjw@traveller.com), March 06, 1999.

I really like this photo. It has great exposure and the light was wonderful. The composition is also very good. I love its soft foreground and background. Nice shot!

-- Nick Stevens (nickstevens@hotmail.com), March 06, 1999.

I also like this shot. The blends of color are nice (brown and white in the foreground, light and dark grey in the background). I'm visiting my father, so I can't say about exposure...it looks a little dark to me, but it could be his monitor.

But I do like the way you isolate the tree that is the main subject....plus it's intense dark tones really help it to stand out.

Very well done!!!

-- Jason F (jason@fobart.net), March 06, 1999.

It is a beautiful image. A great composition and exposure. The most important of all is the feel a viewer gets by just looking at it. It is almost unreal. great job.

-- Bahman Farzad (bahman_farzad@spotmetering.com), March 06, 1999.

The bands of colour in the foreground and the way the dark main tree stands out are excellent. One minor nit might be the fact that the top branches of that tree merge and lose contrast with the dark band across the sky. The mood and overall composition are great.

-- Garry Schaefer (schaefer@pangea.ca), March 07, 1999.

This image is moody and alive. It's like something out of a fantasy book, I feel like faeries are about to come bouncing up to me out of the fluffy field like foregrounds, and I'm not sure I should trust them... as things feel pretty ominous.

Love the composition, the foreground and rolling hills are great. My only complaint is the dark band across the top 1/3rd area.

-- mike c (mike@eagleriver.com), March 08, 1999.

Joe,

A very moody image! The combination of misty air and odd lighting that causes the banding gives the scene a gothic feel and it also resembles a model - from some sinister train movie, maybe.

Quite an effect.

Frank

-- Frank Kolwicz (bb389@lafn.org), March 08, 1999.

Very cool! I like it! Buy yourself a beer!

-- Brian Vega (vega@micron.net), March 08, 1999.

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-- Jan van Bodegraven (janvnbdg@mandic.com.br), March 09, 1999.

Extremely nice. What more can you say about a perfect shot! I tried cutting the picture at the top of the dark band and I liked the way it looked. If I were to shoot this with large format (which I do) I would have tried to get the foreground in focus a little more than it is. Still...those are minor quibbles about I shot I wish I would have taken.

-- John Wiemer (Wiemerjo@slcc.edu), March 10, 1999.

Great shot Joe! The only thing to improve it , IMO, is to crop out the top white band. Then you have an almost surrealistic image! Again, great shot.

-- Paul Lenson (lenson@pci.on.ca), March 16, 1999.