Custer State Park, SD Nikon F3HP, Nikkor 80-200/4, f5.6 @ 1/30, Ektachrome E100S

-- Joe Boyd (boydjw@traveller.com), November 17, 1998

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When all else fails ...

-- Joe Boyd (boydjw@traveller.com), November 17, 1998.

Joe, the black part at the lower edge is too thin for me - I would crop it by some 10-15 pixels less than you did. Zdenek P.S. I would appreciate links to personal sites of all attendants of this forum. Please mail to zb@zzz.cz

-- Zdenek Bakstein (zb@zzz.cz), November 18, 1998.

Now, if only you had a flock of birds flying in the middle ... just kidding. This picture is very good but can be even better with luck as always.

-- Carlos Co (co@che.udel.edu), November 18, 1998.

I know I would have done it slightly differently, but with the tiny bit of land on the bottom and the few clouds at the top, all that "negative" space sure gives a feeling of the big sky prairie that I remember from North Dakota. Very evocative and satisfying.

Frank

-- Frank Kolwicz (bb389@lafn.org), November 18, 1998.

Very nice shot, but yes, you need a bit more dark land area at the bottom. As the way it is, the trees appear to be floating without roots.

-- Shun Cheung (shun@worldnet.att.net), November 18, 1998.

It is a beauty. It does, however, seem to be a bit unbalanced, with the primary compositional elements all on the right side. It also seems to go on a little too far on the left, with a bit of dead area over there, while giving the feeling of being chopped off on the right. A definite keeper, though.

-- Randy Wilson (randy@uafphpl.uark.edu), November 19, 1998.

Crop a little time bit off the top. Add some black space to the bottom to make it almost square and its a great shot.

-- Paul Lenson (lenson@pci.on.ca), November 19, 1998.

I might have tilted the horized so one the bottow the right there would have been a downward slope towards the left and still the fasinating clouds and "negative space", technicly perfect though.

-- Tait Stangl (taits@usa.net), November 20, 1998.