I was out Geocaching (www.geocaching.com) with my sons, when I snapped this quick picture. I actually had a couple I liked more, but this is the only one I've had time to process. (My son wanted this one to take to social studies class)
I want to go back to this site with a tripod and some filters!
In the print version, I cloned out the tree behind the second stone.
It's a cemetery all right, but there's nothing about this that to me says "fear of cemeteries". Also seems like there's too much contrast or sharpening.
nice shot, composition is good, it's a bit grainy, so either a high ISO or a low budget camera. could use some dodge/burn, but that's not allowed in basic editing... 7
IMO, you were on the right track by taking a photo in a cemetary. To convey a better sense of fear, a pic showing some of the more gothic markers would have been better.
Good depth of field and focus. I think this might have been cooler in B&W....because, to me at least, the blue sky really takes away any real sense of fear in the picture. You get a 7 from me though...good pic.
This image is pretty evenly divided between the sky and the foreground. I think that the composition would have been stronger if there was more emphasis on one or the other. Given the subject the colors are rather bright and cheery, but not enough to make it feel like an intentional contrast. I'd suggest adding some image grain and dropping the saturation a bit or trying to make the contrast between the happy colors and the sad subject feel more intentional.
The fact that the epitaph is legible on at least the first few tombstones ties the cometary to someplace in the southern U.S. Since the details about this particular cometary aren't relevant to your message about cemeteries in general, you might want to consider obscuring the locale specific details somehow (a wider angle shot, etc.).
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