Comments on: Currykippane Cemetery

By: Baruch Marmor

Baruch Marmor — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 01:16:59 +0000

Hi,
Interesting composition. I’ve learned through out the years a lot from your excellent skill of chosing/building up briliant compositions. But you’ve been fallen this time into the light pitfall. I feel that the light contrast is too sharp for this configuration, and you really loose touch with the details. Only by using magnifying glass I could realy enjoy the composition. It’s a trap that many would fall in. The light is driving you, I think, to extend the contrast with the morning shadows too much, over the edge.
I’m really a big fan of you and your works, and it’s not the first time I react, but it’s the first time to critisize your photograph, but I hope you understand that it is a constructive criticism.
Your fan, Baruch M.

By: Mike

Mike — Fri, 03 Nov 2006 01:04:08 +0000

Great use of the wide angle, fair play. This is just down the road from my house.
“There are a few other nice vantage points up on those hills so I’ll have to go up there some other morning.”
– About half a mile up the road towards town at the brow of the hill there’s an open entrance to some fields/sites with a fantastic panorama of the valley; great for some landscape shots if you can get there early before the sun moves to the south.
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=cork,+ireland&ie=UTF8&om=1&z=17&ll=51.904089,-8.535326&spn=0.004879,0.014849&t=k

By: david

david — Wed, 01 Nov 2006 16:28:51 +0000

i love this use of dof, and i think the long shadows falling over the graveyard really builds up the atmosphere.

By: Donncha

Donncha — Tue, 31 Oct 2006 19:45:32 +0000

Yes, some of the shadows are dark, but I brought out detail in the main celtic cross so it wouldn’t be too dark. (lay masks are great things!)
I love the shadows, and like Mick implies, the early morning light casts great shadows!

By: anton

anton — Tue, 31 Oct 2006 18:57:52 +0000

Nice composition, but is it a little dark in the shadows?

By: micki

micki — Tue, 31 Oct 2006 10:23:18 +0000

Great compositon on this shot, and the early morning light raking across the land was well captured! This is an excellent photo!