Hockey on the Pond - does this work as a landscape?

eoren1

Debating whether this shot 'works' for my blog. I am shooting landscapes in town and this is as quintessential a New England winter scene as I could imagine. Worked it a bit in the hopes it would come across as a strong landscape image. Appreciate your thoughts.
E

bhundt

I think it's a great winter scene, but then again I love hockey!

eoren1

Thanks Bob
Appreciate it!
E

schmoo

I like seeing different things, and hockey on a local body of water is certainly one of them.

NeilL

It's a nice enough shot. I like the action-tension in the players. It's a bit of a far stretch to call it landscape, I don't think most people would immediately see it as such, but it does have a strong sense of place.

To give it more of a landscape feel I think you could give it a colour cast (tint) and saturate some of the colours in the background, and to go along with that tone down and use a slight vignette on the large amount of same-tone ice-snow in the foreground.

This is almost identical to this:

http://www.pieter-bruegel-the-elder.org/Winter-Landscape-with-Skaters-and-Bird-Trap-1565.jpg

Neil

Eia

I think it does. Looks postcard perfect.

eoren1

Thanks Schmoo, Neil and Eia!
Appreciate the very nice comparison Neil. Got me to thinking in B/W and came up with this:



Any better?

NeilL

eoren1 wrote: »

Thanks Schmoo, Neil and Eia!
Appreciate the very nice comparison Neil. Got me to thinking in B/W and came up with this:



Any better?

Better, I won't say. I do like this a lot, and your treatment and editing, and I think it is going in the right direction towards more of a landscape look, away from a documentary capture. It deepens the feeling of place and shifts the emphasis from action to ambiance. Keep going!

Neil