Foggy Road

[Rachel Foster]

I was certain I had already posted this but can't find it. Maybe I only imagined it. Anyway, my question is crop. I originally cropped it wide, but think a more narrow crop works better.

Jacob Eliana: Road to Infinity (Wide Crop)

Jacob Eliana: Road to Infinity (Narrow Crop)​

If anyone finds where I've posted this before, I hope Asher or the mods will please move this. I MUST be getting old!

 

[Cem_Usakligil]

I was certain I had already posted this but can't find it. Maybe I only imagined it.....

If anyone finds where I've posted this before, I hope Asher or the mods will please move this. I MUST be getting old!

Hi Rachel,

You have posted it in the paths thread, here is your post.

Cheers,

 

[Rachel Foster]

Whew! This should stay as a separate thread, then, so I don't hijack paths?

 

[Cem_Usakligil]

Whew! This should stay as a separate thread, then, so I don't hijack paths?

By all means

 

[Mike Shimwell]

Wide

MIke

 

[Doug Kerr]

Hi, Rachel,

Wide

Absolutely.

Cropped narrow, it looks like a million other road shots.

Best regards,

Doug

 

[John Angulat]

Hi Rachel,
I vote for wide also.
And...it seems the wide image is a bit darker than the vertical crop.
I like the brightness in the vertical. It seems to enhance the mist and it brings out a bit more detail in the trees.
Your thoughts?

 

[Asher Kelman]

The quick thrill v. the space to get lost in? I go with my muses to the latter!

I was certain I had already posted this but can't find it. Maybe I only imagined it. Anyway, my question is crop. I originally cropped it wide, but think a more narrow crop works better.

Jacob Eliana: Road to Infinity (Wide Crop)​

Rachel,

Both are good but very different. The vertical, second picture expresses immediacy, we're passing through bright light. So the tall format gives the quick thrill but the landscape version, using the restful more contemplative horizontal form, is enigmatically dark. That creates for us a drama. Is it safe? Wll we make it to the bright light?

Jacob Eliana: Road to Infinity (Narrow Crop)​

So then, after this which would I choose? The horizontal has the most unknown in it therefore, IMHO, is more advanced as art. It stimulates us, just a little more, to populate the space with our own musings. The vertical, second image, by contrast, just gives us a thrill, but pays off right now without much further investment on out part. It is, what it is, a quick moment.

Asher

 

[Rachel Foster]

Great feedback! Thanks, all. I'll study this.

 

[Damien Paul]

Part of my often-dormant sense of adventure is stimulated by scenes like this. What is beyond the mist?

Similar to the feeling when I took this photo of heavy fog on the Japanese mountain Zao-san (forgive my intrusion):

Damien Igoe: Zao-san's secrets​

A couple of friends of mine were reluctant to join me in romping around this ancient terrain with me. One of my friends was positively spooked by it - they said that as I walked into the fog, I seemed to merge into it, rather than just disappear into it.

That is another thought I get from your pictures, Rachel, a sense of wonder about what will 'emerge' out of the mist.

 

[Rachel Foster]

Thanks. That's my third fog photo. I do seem to find them irresistible.

 

[ErikJonas]

The narrow one is brighter are these differant exsposures?...Dumb question i know but just wondering...

 

[Damien Paul]

Thanks. That's my third fog photo. I do seem to find them irresistible.

They are indeed irresistable - a bit more about the Zao-san photo - the fog had a slight 'rotten egg' tinge to the smell - an ever present reminder that then, I was walking in the fog, on a dormant volcano

 

[Rachel Foster]

What a great detail!