Big Blue Shadow

[otherprof]

After a lot of night shots, I decided to see what this shooting in daylight is like

 

[zulu42]

Creative use of the shadow as sort of an artificial horizon to isolate your subject.

I feel like I owe you one, as I've just stolen your idea

 

[Jeff15]

Not doing it for me, sorry...........

 

[otherprof]

Creative use of the shadow as sort of an artificial horizon to isolate your subject.

I feel like I owe you one, as I've just stolen your idea

We are even. You gave me a nice gift when you liked the idea enough to take it! BTW, when I took the shot I was trying to get the child running toward the mother - and I was just a little late for the shot I wanted. I only saw the possibilities for this one when I got it on the computer screen and started playing around in Photos.

 

[otherprof]

Not doing it for me, sorry...........

That's why they sell vanilla, chocolate and strawberry.

 

[smoke665]

Don't be afraid to walk into the light! LOL

I like the fact you were thinking outside the box in utilizing the shadow line as a strong visual element, but there's a couple of fails. You have strong leading lines working, but none of them are doing a good job of leading the eye into the point of focus, which you indicated is the mother/child. By not doing so, those same lines lead the eye away from your point of focus. Ideally this might have been visually stronger if the mother/child were more to the right, using the lines in the concrete and the palm trees in the background to frame them, but in lieu of that a tighter crop could still make it work, by putting the shadow line on the bottom thirds horizontal, and the mother child on the left thirds vertical. Just a thought, because I like Chocolate!

 

[jcdeboever]

Excellent eye, as usual.

 

[otherprof]

Don't be afraid to walk into the light! LOL

I like the fact you were thinking outside the box in utilizing the shadow line as a strong visual element, but there's a couple of fails. You have strong leading lines working, but none of them are doing a good job of leading the eye into the point of focus, which you indicated is the mother/child. By not doing so, those same lines lead the eye away from your point of focus. Ideally this might have been visually stronger if the mother/child were more to the right, using the lines in the concrete and the palm trees in the background to frame them, but in lieu of that a tighter crop could still make it work, by putting the shadow line on the bottom thirds horizontal, and the mother child on the left thirds vertical. Just a thought, because I like Chocolate!
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Thanks, but I've become attached to that big blue shadow. Your advice would no doubt make the picture I was originally going for better, but for this new idea I'm sticking with blueberry Now the mother and child just call more attention to the big blue rectangle of shadow for me.

 

[otherprof]

After a lot of night shots, I decided to see what this shooting in daylight is like

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For anyone still interested, I've corrected the thread title. I just noticed it read "Big Blue Shadow Af". I have no idea where the "Af" came from. It was not meant to call attention to the fact that auto focus was used.