Corn Maze - c&c please

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Took this yesterday and really not sure about my processing of it. What do you think? Comments on all aspects of the photo are welcome. Thanks for looking.

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ok... this is just my opinion and my taste so don't take it too seriously

when I looked at the photo the first thing I thought was "oh , this has a great potential for pp"
I would process this picture in a gloomy, dark way... the sky is very well preserved

The picture as it is is a bit dull... jmho

we'll see what others have to say :)
 
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Thanks for your feedback. I may give that a try.
 

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Good morning Ms. SquarePeg.
I agree with M&M that you have a location that has real potential.
Maybe something from a higher angle so that you bring more of the beautiful colors of those trees in the background.

Here is a link to several landscape tips and tricks. I enjoy reading these because they tend to be short and sweet. They often include example images.
You searched for landscape - Digital Photography School
 
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Good morning Ms. SquarePeg.
I agree with M&M that you have a location that has real potential.
Maybe something from a higher angle so that you bring more of the beautiful colors of those trees in the background.

Here is a link to several landscape tips and tricks. I enjoy reading these because they tend to be short and sweet. They often include example images.
You searched for landscape - Digital Photography School

I only have a few from a higher angle and none of them show the maze, just the field of corn but a better view of the foliage.

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Much much nicer imo. :)

If this is place you can get back to, I would still try to incorporate the dirt path into the shot used maybe as a leading line.
 
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ok... this is just my opinion and my taste so don't take it too seriously

when I looked at the photo the first thing I thought was "oh , this has a great potential for pp"
I would process this picture in a gloomy, dark way... the sky is very well preserved

The picture as it is is a bit dull... jmho

we'll see what others have to say :)

More like this?

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I like the curving like of the path, but my inclination would have been to try walking further up the path to see if I could get more of the trees. I tend to mosey and turn and look around etc. and sometimes I'll see a better picture.

With this it's a lot of similar tones, gray, tan, yellowish tan, etc. So if possible I'd go on a nice sunny day, or if I'm stuck with a crappy cloudy day that's the only time I can get there, then I try to minimize what looks crappy. I think I'd like less of the choppy stalks to the right (particularly the one sticking into the picture), and sometimes I frame lower to get less gray hazy sky (unless the clouds are interesting; these have some interest closer to the ground I think). I'd probably want to bring the viewer more into the path than the sky. Depends I guess on what you want the picture to be about.
 

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Maybe something from a higher angle so that you bring more of the beautiful colors of those trees in the background.
I would go with a lower angle - make the corn look bigger than life and forbidding,
 

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