Green Park

Green Park
Originally uploaded by grytr.

I posted this picture on Flickr today. Lets see what the photographic community think.

Posted by John 18/9/06 01:15 am
The Flickr community, well at least the critque group, have commented. See below.

godplayer says:

I think pictures of snow are some of the hardest in terms of exposure. The snow is usually quite bright and overwhelms the light meter which thinks that it is should expose it as if it was grey. As a result the darker objects are severly underexposed and devoid of details. Looking at your picture this does not appear to be the case. There seems to be enough detail in the trees and this is probably because the snow was still falling and the snow was not as bright as it would have been in bright sun light. However, there does not seem to be enough detail or tecture in the snow.
The snow in the foreground, especially at the bottom left side of the picture is a bit overexposed and really pulls my eye toward it and this is quite a distraction as the viewer is lead away from the red umbrella which, from reading your note, is supposed to be the center of interest or at least a major point of focus. I suggest removing this area either through cropping or burning it in.
This brings me to the umbrella as an object of interest. I think it is too small to be really a focal point, it sort of gets lost in the picture espcially with all the big trees with the snow on the branches I find myself wanting to follow them and where they lead me is away from the umbrella. If you want this to be a focal ponit, I think that you need to get closer by cropping tighter and also bringing the red more into prominence by further sturation or brightness adjustment.
I would also suggest a little bit adjusment to increase contrast just a bit. I understand that the snow was falling and probably everything looked flat and grey but a bit of contrast boost would be good IMHO.
Having said all of this I do believe that you managed to capture well what appears to be a grey and gloomy day.