Steve, here is the original image. I just cropped it to give it a different feel. You are right about the cyan but my current adobe skills don't go much beyond sharp and unsharp and image size. I will work on them once I get out of season. Thanks for the comments.
hit the button too fast. I realized another reason why I think a bottom crop works. Because if you move it up a tad, there are natural fourths to the scene. The horses are near the first fourth, and then the scene splits itself naturally into four layers: field, near trees, far trees, and background trees.
Hi William...nice pastoral image. A couple of things that I see:
1) It looks like there's quite a bit of cyan in this image, especially up top. I don't know if a UV filter was necessary (?), if this was the scan, or if it's just a scene high in cyan, but it seems a bit much. It's also very noticible in the white areas of the horses (especially the largest horse). Go into an image editor and move the hue and saturation of cyan to at least see what I'm talking about...otherwise, I might not be making much sense.
Other than that, the aspect ratio seems rather high such that it actually looks like it was cropped to remove elements either left or right versus being a decisive crop for effect (probably because I automatically expect to see something close to 2x3, 3x4, wide pano, or MF/LF ratio). It would be fine if it was required to fit this exact ratio...it's just one I personally wouldn't pick on my own.I'd consider cropping some of the bottom, keeping it tall (since I like the tallness here) but eliminating some of the extraneous field (note: I'm a big fan of eliminating what isn't necessary).
Other than that...I like the diagonal lines and it's a nice pastoral scene that gives a good sense of space and the scene.
I'm new to usefilm.com and hope that honest critiques are appreciated here as I've been told.
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