From one of my favorite perspectives - which do you like better?

[Kali]

just road


or with horizon

[Ptah]

1. I like seeing the horizon

Good ride?

:thumbsup:

[Kali]

4. Beautiful evening - yep even saw a few wildflowers, some scrub jays, a squirrel and a couple rabbits

Things are NOT as green as they look in the photos though! Just a cruddy camera that doesn't do well in low light. And by that I mean less than noontime brightness :silly:

[qnr]

2. I prefer the horizon. The 1st leaves me feeling vaguely unsatisfied, for some reason n/t

[Kali]

5. the thing I liked better about the no horizon one was actually

my horse's right eye/face area - otherwise I like the horizon one better too.

[qnr]

9. Yeah, but the dog seemed more involved in everything in the second. n/t

[CaliforniaPeggy]

3. My dear Kali...

I like the second picture better, the one with the horizon...

It's amazing how different the two look!

The pic without the horizon looks closed in, almost as though there's a forest!

Interesting question.........

Thanks for posting!

:hi:

[Kali]

10. well no competition to your great pix. CP! thanks

[Chan790]

6. I like the first...

because i like the conveyed feeling more. Dark, closed-in, brooding. (Interesting).

The second one conveys optimism and a sense of freedom. (Boring from a perspective standpoint...everybody does optimism.)

[Kali]

8. interesting

yeah, harder to tell we are climbing a hill - just seems like endless road ahead

[LynzM]

7. Depends on what mood you're looking for

The first one says "onward, trudgery, weary"... the second one says "keep on, almost there, you can make it." Or at least, that's what they say to me...

[Kali]

11. it's his gait coming through the photo - he rides like a damn camel!

it IS trudgery even in the second :rofl:

[petronius]

12. I like the top one, but I'd like it better if you'd snapped it about 30' farther along

The road dwindling and curving off into a dark and uncertain future is a nice theme, and it's experienced through the senses of the animals in this shot which is neat, but there's a bit too much open space in the left foreground for full effectiveness. (A sharper focus would help, too. :))

[Kali]

13. I wondered if anyone would notice...

I had the stupid thing set to close up. :blush: It's a cheapo camera - I need practice before I will let myself get a good one (and then I probably wouldn't take it on horseback!)

Thanks for the composition tips - at the time I was just trying to get ears and some kind of foreground, the dog was just luck. The view screen is pretty scratched and the viewfinder is not much better. I'm hoping next fall for a "real" camera.