Forlorn House

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  MaximusM3

• Nov 9, 2011

LOVE the landscape and composition...but the out of focus foreground is a distraction. Crop, maybe?

 

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  paulgallinule

• Nov 9, 2011

Great image in a great part of Ireland, nice tones going on here.

 

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  goldfinch

• Nov 9, 2011

MaximusM3 said:

LOVE the landscape and composition...but the out of focus foreground is a distraction. Crop, maybe?

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possibly... I have never payed to much attention to the OOF foreground, it may be distracting indeed, however large print looks great to me even with this OOF foreground. thanks for a remark anyway

 

• Mahler_one

• Nov 9, 2011

Agree completely about the foreground...nicely exposed and printed.

 

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  Bertil

• Nov 9, 2011

My reaction was different concerning the OOF foreground; the unsharpness and the light in the foreground contributed to something like a dream, a saga, a hidden story about this home showing up, now forlorn, a place that we now can just speculate about, never come to any conclusion (were they happy?....??). Personal perhaps, but I like it very much as it is; thanks for posting.
/Bertil

 

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  hairyseg

• Nov 10, 2011

Yep, +1 for the out of focus foreground, creates an air of mystery the image something emotional rather than documentary. I also think it leads you into the image and concentrates the eye on the focal point of the house. just my 2p.

 

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  Thomas Bertilsson

• Nov 11, 2011

Absolutely beautiful. Darkening the foreground was a great choice, because it leads you into the picture to focus on the beauty ahead. Very smart composition and printing.

 

• dbalosie

• Nov 12, 2011

Very nice! I would agree that the blurred foreground is a +

 

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  Ezzie

• Nov 12, 2011

I loved the OoF foreground. The tones are just out of this world. You could have fooled me into thinking this was taken more than half a century ago.