The Collective Eye No. 2

This weeks Collective Eye image came from a moment most of us would walk straight past. Leaving a concert, heading back to the car, and turning to find a mountain sundown sitting right there above the parking lot. The photographer wanted to hold two kinds of beauty in one frame, the mountains behind, the cars in front.

The following comments are direct quotes from our community, shared exactly as they were written. We're publishing them as a way of showing the range of honest, thoughtful feedback this image received, not as a final verdict, but as a real conversation between photographers looking closely at the same frame.

“Here I would choose different aspect ratio and focus on the top half of the frame. And definitely go wide frame from cinescope to even as wide as ultra panavision/x-pan territory whatever would give me the most desirable ratio between sky and the mountain tops.”

“Simply outstanding”

“I meant to say, other than needing to slightly straighten the shot I like the composition and exposure. Where it suffers is the black and white doesn’t do the sunset any favors. This is an example of choosing to keep the shot color would have been a better choice.”

“It is an interesting concept to invite people to slow down and observe there environments. Compositionally, I find there is not too much interest in the sky. If there were more interesting cloud structures I would like this much sky, but since there is less interest there I would prefer to drop the image a bit and include a bit more of the foreground detail with distant mountains nearer the top of the image. By including more of the foreground you get a better sense of that, walking to the parking lot feel.”

“I think it's a very well executed and also well composed photo! Perhaps the clouds distract from the overall minimalistic effect a bit but it's still excellent to me.”

“I like the concept and contrast of the interaction between nature and technology. That would make for a great project. Lighting wise my preference would be a bit more detail and texture in the mountains. Compositionally, The cars are too close to the edge of the frame. It seems like the idea was solid but the situation leaving the concert likely didn't allow time to explore the scene and find a stronger composition.”