Möwe / Seagull

good shot^^ a bit noise, but good

Stunning shot!

If the road was all blue, it would be great. Now it has a gray insert in the middle, which distracts a lot.

Great composition of the road & trees. It gives the picture depth. I like the saturation of the leaves, but I thought the blue road was a stream when I saw the smaller version. The blue road is distracting & appears unnatural.

well the blue road is a nice object, but i think that the pic would look better without that much of it

The yellow is beautiful! The road is a bit blue but I still love it!

Very stunning picture. I take my breath away! Awesome, good work!

Impressive colours, it's hard to believe that you haven't added saturation during PP. Good composition with the tree silhouettes as well!

Los colores son impresionantes y las siluetas en negro encajan como piezas de un puzzle.
Saludos

Fantastic shot. The colors are increible. I love the way the tress look against the red.

Simply gorgeous. What else can I say?

WOW, beautiful!

Very nice... i think the it would be great if it was the full cup.... and a background color....

nice try :)

i think that is is ok that there isn something in the background, it would only disturb the atmosphere... and the shot is great! how often did you try to hit the splash?? ;) very nice

I like it with the white background i think this is what make it appear so 3d, as mention earlier a full cup could be interesting, another approach would be using this as panoramic just cropping over the upper drop, this photo as some commercial value white space can be use for info on brand ect.
At first look it just remind me of an old commercial
some may remember ( good to the last drop, Max... house).
Good work

I wonder what this might have looked like with a dark background.

Scenery superb and composition, but bridge to dark

Very nice picture, great set-up, but I agree the bridge needs to be lightened up and maybe a bit more saturation on the greens.

nice motive, but i think that there could be more contrasts

I like the scenery very much, but if you added a big more saturation on the green leaves and lightened the bridge a bit, I think it would really be a great photo!

I agree with what everyone has said so far. Nice shot though.

The power line alone would add to the feeling of abandonment. However, with that antenna on the roof and the wires from it to the home the feeling of abandonment diminishes. So that antenna is a distraction is in my eyes.

Otherwise, great colors and composition.

Very cool .
Great composition, leading the eye and having multiple elements that show you the abandoned state of this!

Somehow, I'm missing the right side of the building, if you have a landscape version of this building, you might post it as well, to compare the two compositions.

the colors are very good there is nothing to say, good pic

Love it. Great color and clarity. Really captures the topic.

Yeah... a bit more contrast would be sweet. Great composition!

I like the composition.
the colors and contrast remind me of a lomo shot.

It has an "old" feel to me. Like a 1960's photo.

What does the sign/banner say?

I like the composition. I'd recommend bumping up the contrast a little bit. Other than that, nice shot.

Love the mood here

This is such a great one, Jen!!! The focus is so perfect...the framing so tight and bang on. I still LOVE it!

Cats can stare at you like that... it's almost like they can see through you. I just love the sharpness of the hairs.

Only cats. I've tried so many times to get a shot like this of my dogs and they just want to lick the lens! Great photo!

evil cat^^ very sharp

Beautiful, every hair is clear! Love it!

great black and white - maybe a little less sky on top, but otherwise like it.

I like the grainyness of the picture. It really adds to the atmosphere. It describes a rough location and the black and white together with the grainyness really works.

well i dont agree, the graininess disturbes the atmosohere, i think without it would look better

lighthouses are great...would love to see the color version

@Holger, have you seen much B&W film photography, printed??? The grain structure in this image is not detracting from or disturbing anything. If it were digital noise, with purple and red artifacts, then yes, but this image just looks more like a printed B&W photo than what most of us in the digital world are used to looking at.

@Tom, I agree that the cropping could be a bit better, I would crop about 10-15% off both the top and bottom to create a nice horizontal framing. This will give the eye a really nice run from the small building past the lighthouse and over the rocks to the right.

I appreciate everyone's comments on this photo -

Perhaps to some there are too many stories in this shot, but that is truly how it is behind a film camera. I was very lucky to be able to get all of the elements of a film scene into one shot.

I couldn't go much wider due to the position of a car on the set and trying to stay out of the shot, otherwise I would've added a bit more on the left.

Antipodes, it wasn't by design that you can't see anyone's faces, but the fact that it reads chaos to you is perfect, because it is controlled chaos behind the camera! There is SO much going on, and that is what I was trying to convey. I love that you noticed the faces - it makes me like the picture even more.

This picture kind of reminds me of the Last Supper, in the sense that there are many stories to be seen on either side of the center subject, (which is not necessarily the main subject of this shot).

I agree that it could probably use a little sharpening. Any suggestions on how much?

Clutter, clutter, clutter. Sometimes (often), less is more. I know that is a bit difficult in this type of situation. Couldn't you have moved and try to take the shot so that the background would be the actual shooting background?

rverrcesi - Cluttered? Perhaps, but I feel the clutter is justified by the topic.

Could I have moved to include the background they were shooting? Sure! And then the photo would have looked just like the other 327 shots I took on set, where the subject of the photo was the actors.

I wanted the "subject" and "story" of this photo to include the many people who are the workings behind the camera; the subjects that no one sees; the chaos behind the controlled environment that you see when you watch a movie.

Your saying it's cluttered is actually a compliment - it means I've done what I set out to do!

Kerri, I was just expressing my personal view. Of course you of all people know what you set out to do when you took this photo. Please consider it just an opinion. I agree when you say you wanted to include as many people possible. My only remark is that they do not help in the overall composition mainly because you have people in half, people looking away from the actors (you are the center piece here). They seem to be standing there without actually working on set. If all those people where focusing on the set or a particular point the photo could have been even better. Mind you, again, it is only an opinion.

Ricardo, I appreciate your opinion! And I take no offense to your observations. The intention of this forum is for discussion, and I'm glad to partake.

Again, you make my point with your comments. There are many stories within this shot, thus why it is in this topic. This photo is a true depiction of what happens on a set. The entire crew does not focus and watch the scene as it's being shot - that would be distracting to the actors. Instead, they quietly wait to jump into action when the scene ends; and although you don't see any motion, it is in the listening and waiting that they are working. But I understand how that could give you the impression that some people aren't doing anything in this scene.

I suppose I could have cropped from the camera op to the right, cutting out the sound guy, but I rather like how his boom framed the shot.