A winding road

[Gadfly]

 

[invisible]

Beautiful composition, lovely soft colours, very serene image. Not fond of the warm edges, though.

 

[Gadfly]

Thanks Invisible for your kind words.

I hate to make excuses, but the warm edges are due to light leaks. I thought cropping the image further would compromise the composition.

Cheers!

 

[Frequency]

Excellent; i like it

 

[Murasaki]

I think I would have liked it in Black & White ...

 

[panblue]

I like it. Dreamy effect with the shallow use of DOF, gentle hues, good framing.

 

[Gadfly]

I think I would have liked it in Black & White ...

B/W seems to convey a different feeling. I'll have to think about this one a bit.

Thanks for the input folks!

 

[Mully]

Nice image ....I would like it better without the yellow glow on the edges.

 

[Murasaki]

I think I would have liked it in Black & White ...

B/W seems to convey a different feeling. I'll have to think about this one a bit.

Thanks for the input folks!

I like this very much.

 

[Frequency]

Color is the winner

 

[Rick58]

B&W takes it.

 

[emayd]

What about this variant of cropping?

Your variant has too much space on the right part without any object on it that can attract attention. (IMHO)

My variant is also doesn't perfect. Too less "air". Probably vertical variant will be better. More moving along path.

 

[panblue]

Prefer the colour version without crop..

 

[Gadfly]

It's interesting. I can see what you mean about the negative space, I often place a lot of it in my photos, but I can understand why it wouldn't work here.

I love your crops. My nit pick for #1 would be that the top curve is nearly tangent to the frame, so when your eye follows it, it runs off the side of the photo which can be jarring. #2 nit pick would be that by cropping the bottom, there is almost nothing left in critical focus; this can be a good thing, but leaves the photo without the gradual change as you follow the road up, which is what I was aiming for.

Thanks for the input!