Implied decay

Flyinggina

These photos were all taken in a cemetery. Your comments and thoughts about their viability for LPS 17 woudl be appreciated.

#1 - Grief



#2 Ashes to ashes



#3

Sic transit Gloria mundi



#4 The Spirit Endures



#5 Left for the dead



#6 The Winter of Desolation

Tango

#6 is outstanding in its affect to me.
good job!

System

Aaronzhere northere wrote:

#6 is outstanding in its affect to me.
good job!

yes, I like this one also-

Tentacion

I LOVE #6....What a great composition...Love the statue!!

leaforte

#6 is a powerful composition.

Flyinggina

Thanks very much Aaron, George, Donna and Lea. I find the statue very moving as well.

Here is a tighter crop of #6. Does it make the impact stronger for you with the statue filling more of the frame?

The Winter of Desolation version 2



Virginia

Llywellyn

Is this Pere Lachaise? Most amazing cemetary I've ever wandered through.

For the second crop, I like the zoomed focus, but I think it loses something with so much of that right cross cropped off. Have you tried simply cropping from the top, in a not-quite-pano version? In the original composition, it's the top more than the room on the sides that pulls the focus away for me.

I also really like the first one in the original batch.

achambers

Please don't take my comments as mean, these are just my thoughts on how I might recompose or recrop.

#1 could be a little stronger if the image was moved a little to the right (a little more open space to the left.

#4 this could be stronger with a little more DOF to defocus the background.

#6 I like the original crop, the eye does wander but is drawn back the the satue.

Tango

for me the original #6 produces an affect the cropped second version does not. (IMhumbleO)

pemmett

Aaronzhere northere wrote:

for me the original #6 produces an affect the cropped second version does not. (IMhumbleO)

VisualXpressions

I predict Number 6 the original would be a top 10 winner (if I were a judge)clap Very lovely shot...

Winston

Justiceiro

#6 uncropped, definitely.

Flyinggina

Thank you everyone for the encouraging and constructive comments. They are all very much appreciated.

You are right agout the location, Kerry. The photos were all taken at Pere LaChaise. I love cemeteries and graveyards, but Pere LaChaise is my all time favorite.

Virginia