It's foggy in Hockley today.

Love the train tracks and the bridge.  The fog adds that sense of mystery that makes the shots.

John, I'm interested as to why fog gives you fits?  I've always found it quite easy to meter, but was wondering if there is something specific you are trying to get that is eluding you.  These are great, but I'd like to take a little off the left of the second image, and maybe trim both sides of the bridge just a bit.  At least try it and see what you think, I think there's a little imbalance in the space in them.  There is nothing necessarily wrong with the train tracks, but it's not really creating a strong impact with me.  I think it needs some type of element to create tension in the image.  I'm seeing a little boy sitting on one of the tracks looking to the outer edge of the frame, far enough back in the image that it's not a portrait of him, so he is just a part of the scene, but so he adds some additional questions/thoughts/interaction within the image.  Just an idea... it needs a little something extra though I think.

Travis

I definitely understand that.  But then, I have that problem no matter what I'm shooting .  Sorry I don't think I can be of any help for you on the matter.

I have to agree.  The proportion of the frame was better without the cropping.  Hmmm, they were still very good the way you had them originally; maybe you should just keep them that way.  If you don't mind, could I download these and try a thing or two on them?

Travis

Well, they're kind of quick and unrefined, but maybe...

On the bridge, I copied some of the trees from the right side, flipped them, stretched them, and placed them on the left side as well.  I think it closed up some of that corner and focused the viewer a little more without cropping.  Then I did just a touch of burning over there as well for the same reason.  I also posted a version with the entire image flipped; I don't know that it's better, but it definitely changes the way you experience the image.  Of course, it's up to your interpretation of what you wanted originally.




On the pond, I did very little.  I tried a lot of things, such as cropping the left side and then stretching the right side so it would move back into the more rectangular format; but it didn't make a huge difference.  Primarily on the attached image, all I did was select some of the ?pine? tree on the right and blend it into the left just to fill in and soften some of the edge of the image along the upper left.  Kind of like applying a texture to just that area.  I think at the very least, the edge of the image isn't so harsh and 'wraps' into the corner a little better.



Nothing big really, and I'm not sure anything made a huge difference.  Just a couple of more ideas maybe.

Thanks for letting me try at least,
Travis