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The view looking back up my driveway this morning as I was leaving for work.
iPhone X
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Beautiful! The first thing I notice is the airplane contrail across the top of the frame. It’s quite distracting, so maybe you could edit it out or try to retake the photo again? The only other thing I notice is that the photo is quite over-edited. I would lower the contrast a bit and slightly mute some of the green. By the way, I love your driveway!
Ryan,
I tend to like my photos bold. Also, since I do not really know how to use photo editing software, I just use the canned presets until I find the one I like the best and use it.
I’m not sure I can edit the contrail out with the app I have on the phone.
@paulnmerrie, ok, it’s still a great photo!
@rmadaris Here it is again with the contrast lowered 10 and saturation lowered by 15 in Snapseed. Had to crop the contrail out. The healing tool was messing up the sky and the tops of the trees.
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The cropped version is a big improvement and makes it into a much more purposeful composition! I like it! I’m with @rmadaris in finding the jet contrail in the first photo distracting. But even if it hadn’t been there the horizontal crop still works better because it eliminates all that empty space in the sky and focuses on what is interesting in the photo. I really like the way you framed it with that tree on the right!
Wow, @paulnmerrie! I love your picture! Personally, I like the coloring and bold contrast.
However, my eyes were almost immediately drawn to the contrail. So, I put it into GIMP and did a rough edit to take out the trail.
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@paulnmerrie, I like it a lot better that way! The horizontal crop does work better, like @dan-cope said.
@paulnmerrie I really love your photo! (especially without the airplane trail! 😉 )
You may find better results healing things on your phone out with Photoshop Fix. (free on the AppStore. You may or may not need a free Adobe account. Can’t remember!) If you’d like a more powerful healing and selection engine, Pixelmator is available on your iPhone for just $5.
I’m going to be the odd one out here and say your photo is better “uncropped”, or at least better in a portrait orientation than in a landscape one. I know, shocking anyone would say that! 🙂
There is a lot of open space in the original photo with the sky and road, but in my mind that doesn’t mean a bad composition. In fact, the open space in combination with the rich colors promotes a dreamy and yet clean feel that I love. I feel like some of that openness is lost when you crop out the open space.
I do have a bias, though. Leaving it in a portrait orientation keeps me from looking at tiny details and instead helps me to look at the whole photo, which in turn really opens up the photo’s design potential. The “openness” and clean feeling I mentioned earlier really frees me as a designer to place graphics on the photo without worrying about the photo getting too “busy.” It is because of this that I would highly recommend you submit your photo in the latest photo assignment! It definitely fits the brief in my mind and would certainly look great on the cover of a book.
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