I shot this on the way home tonight, and wanted to post it not because I think it’s a great photograph particularly, but more so that I could critique it. It’s 5 exposures blended and tone-mapped in Photomatx and then tweaked a little and vignetted slightly in Lightroom. I spotted the line of clouds rolling in and wanted to capture them somehow, but for the life of me, I just couldn’t find an appropriate accent to get in the foreground, and I think that’s what its lacking. It’s very pretty and all that, but its somehow devoid of something. it has no real focal point other than the sun peaking out from behind the clouds. Unfortunately I’ve seen too many images like this, and not just online, but in print too where more effort is required to make a really good photograph. Whether it could have been something as simple as a tractor silhouetted against the sunset, or a line of trees lit with a bunch of strobes – it just needed something else…. Anyway rant over….
On a side note, I heard this mentioned in the latest Pro Photo Show roundtable, and for a Nikon & Mac user interested in a spot of tethered shooting, it looks a must. It’s called SOFORTBILD, you can get it here, and best of all, its free!! I’ve yet to try it out, but as soon as I do, I’ll knock up a post.
