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    This is one of my favourite images from my recent trip to the Hantam region of South Africa. I like the colours of the clouds and the layering affect they bring to the image.
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    Nikon D800
    Nikkor 24-70mm f2.8 G AF/S ED lens
    S/S: 1/50
    Aperture: f14
    ISO: 100
    Manual exposure and focusing.
    Image taken at 70mm focal length.
    Manfrotto tripod and FOBA mini superball head
    Remote nikon shutter release
    Image processed in ACR and CS5 on a 15"MBP.
    Any comments and crits welcome.

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    I like the mood here Mark, and I get what you were trying to do here, but the silhouettes are too jumbled up for me to have the impact it could have had.
    I fully realise that this is tricky and in a place like this with many of these distinct shapes overlapping it might be near-impossible. The key to a good silhoutte for me is distinguishability and simplicity. Even if you had just been able to isolate the leftmost (most prominent) tree a bit more from the one that it's overlapping with at the bottom RHS (as viewed) of the tree, the impact would have been greater.

    I do like the shot - I just think it could have been a bit better if you repositioned yourself? That being said I have no idea what your constraints were. Perhaps if you'd moved drastically to the left (as you would want to include the best part of the sky which is middle-and-right of the frame as seen) and tried to shoot something that shows better separation between the 3 prominent trees on the LHS?

    this all is just IMHO of course
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    Mark - love the sky and the colors. I do understand what Morkel is saying about the silhouettes intersecting and agree that if possible to have them separate would have been preferable.

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    Rachel

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