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It's a long time since I watched The Bridges of Madison County. If my memory stirs correctly I was too young at the time to properly appreciate it.
There is nothing technically wrong with your shot so I think it would be useful to focus on what is holding it back. There are two major areas that might help: composition and light quality. Regarding composition - the lines of the main subject to not draw my attention in nor hold my eye, instead the stretch horizintal across image. Regarding the light quality - I think this was taken sometime in the middle of the day as the light seems flat and as a result the image lacks depth. I recommend the following articles on the Ron Bigelow website for each of these issues:
//ronbigelow.com/articles/adv_comp/adv_comp.htm //ronbigelow.com/articles/magic/magic.htm
I hope my comments help and Good Luck in future Challenges!
I think this image really has a lot of potential and could be improved by cropping a little of the foreground and the left of the image and giving it some contrast. Nice shot
I like the composition on this. Also, I think the red, green and blue sets up a pleasantly colored picture. However, the colors are falling a bit short to me. Maybe a every so slight shift in saturation, especially on the red, would help a bit--just to give it an extra punch. Also, the white on the bridge railing looks a touch overexposed, adn this detracts from the overall effect as well.
This is madison isnt it?
Wonderful....though I do think it could have been finished better.
Maybe you've kept it this way to emulate the original shot.
Good pick.
To me, the contrast on this seems to be too bright. And the fact the the bridge starts righ in the middle of the left side just seems a little off. Perhaps if it were taken from another angle so that your eye is led to the covered bridge from the lower left corner of the photo....
I immediately connected to the movie with this image, which is good. ;^) I wish you had picked a different time of day where the lighting and sky could have provided a bit more drama. It's a bit flat currently. Nice concept! Good luck in the challenge.
Not having seen the film, I had to check it out on the Internet, couldn't actually find any film images, but plenty of this sort of bridge came up, so that's good enough. A fine image, but I think i was looking for something more exciting and punchy out of this challenge.
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