View of Besançon city, eastern France

Interesting, it's the lower part of the image that's important and stronger. Lose the sky and the image is far stronger, but that comes with experience.

Ian
 
You beat me to it Ian. My feeling is the best part of this image is the buildings with the strong contrast and tonal spread. Something like this perhaps?

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I'd leave more of the town, above the buildings, but crop out the sky.

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Ian
 
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If I may… Another crop would be just above the horizon. It’s visually interesting to see the town and the very sharp foreground buildings morph into open countryside and then distant mountains. In the original image there’s more than enough sky to do this.
I suspect that the original framing was dictated by reaching the maximum downward shift of the camera. I don’t doubt that Francis R was well aware of this, because a little bit of extra foreground would be welcome.

It does look as though the exposure was spot-on. Well done. Well seen. A refreshingly unusual viewpoint.
 
Terry's crop produces a strong image. I think Ian's crop is "neither nowt nor summat", as they say in Yorkshire. But I much prefer the original composition. My only problem is that the original image is too big to fit on my screen. I can't see it all in one go. This makes it a little difficult to make judgements.

Alan
 
Well, it just goes to show how we would all have a slightly different approach to to the same image with regard to composition. It's still a very good image, nicely done Francis.
 
Many thanks to Francis, for giving us this opportunity.
 
Thank you so much for your interest in my photo.
Thank you also for the different propositions. These are interesting and introducing other "points of view".
I agree with David in saying that just a narrow skyline would be enough. This would maybe reinforce the importance of the foreground but still leaving place to the buildings in the forests in the background which I feel are also interesting.
Anyway, thank you for your advice :)
 
Composition is so important, but there are no rules to help us. I do more painting than photography, and am always altering things to change the composition - oil paint allows you to do this. The horizon goes up, then it comes down. I paint a tree out, then re-instate it somewhere else in the painting. I add some people, then move them. And so on. Finally, when I think the painting is finished, I frame it and hang it on the wall. And next day I realise that I need to move a fence-post half an inch to the left....

Alan
 
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