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-- Douglas M. Broussard (vought@ricochet.net), August 31, 1998

Answers

The image is too large (pixel size) although the file size is just small enough.

Either the scan or the level of compression used has over-posterized the colour palette.

The composition is pleasing, and the light is marvellous, but the horizon is gonna make me fall out of my chair if I look at it much longer.

Chris

-- Christopher Biggs (chris@stallion.oz.au), August 31, 1998.

That'll teach me to be clever. My eyes saw "626" by my hacker's fingers wrote "256". :-(

-- Christopher Biggs. (chris@stallion.oz.au), August 31, 1998.

Crop off on the right just where the copyright begins. I think its better, otherwise the photo's too wide and it's not clear whether the photographer ment for the background or the tree to be the subject. Cropped, its more "harmonious". Colours are nice. I get the feeling that the tree is being squished by the sky. A little moon or cresent moon midway in the sky above the mountain peek on the right side would have been just dandy! The tree would then appear to be looking at it! Even a bright "star" there would have been nice. Of course, one can digitial add either of these, however, that version couldn't be posted here.

-- Paul Lenson (lenson@pci.on.ca), August 31, 1998.

For the second version, just crop a little bit off the right and top. The idea of the adding a star or moon here has less appeal since the composition seems more balanced. Nice shot.

-- Paul Lenson (lenson@pci.on.ca), August 31, 1998.

It's funny, but I like the first one (panorama) better than the second one (original). Of course you realize that digitally stretching it like this is "against the rules here". (It's also slightly overdone, I would prefer perhaps 10-15% less stretch).

-- (andreas@physio.unr.edu), September 01, 1998.

Love the light,exposure, and subject. You will have a real winner there by making it a vertical, cropping off right side about half way between the main peak and the funny shaped peak to its left. Try it and see what I mean.

-- Lee Snipes (Greyhawk_1@email.msn.com), September 02, 1998.

I disagree with Lee. The right side of the picture is needed. I find the off-center position of the pine very intriguing!

-- (andreas@physio.unr.edu), September 02, 1998.

Gosh,Andreas, thats the first time anyone has disagreed with me in the last 3 1/2 minutes. Maybe we are all missing something here? Of course the image will stand alone on it's own merit, but maybe what really makes it a great shot is all the different really artistic images that can be produced, from that one image, by a few simple crops. Just a thought!

-- Lee Snipes (Greyhawk_1@email.msn.com), September 02, 1998.

Very evocative.

-- Mabel Huber (rurpho@tele-net.net), September 07, 1998.