Wide Shot Critique

[Blake Blakely]

HI Guys,

I posted this one earlier in a series from the PCA Club racing in Daytona. I wanted to get some feedback on which version is more effective (or if it's even close at all!). I like the original because there's much more sense of the clouds. But I wonder of the car is almost lost in it. The cropped version loses a lot of the clouds though. Anyway, I would appreciate your honest opinions.

Thanks,
-Blake

[John Thawley]

For me, the wider one has much more impact. I just wish it weren't so centered. Lower in the frame would have added more of that interesting sky, too.

JT

[Jeff Kapic]

What he said. The first shot, but move the car lower to show more of the sky.

Jeff

[Matt Romanowski]

+3. Nice shot. Having the car lower would make it!

[Blake Blakely]

Thanks guys for the comments. That's what was bugging me about it, just couldn't put my finger on it. Funny thing is I was thinking "sky, sky..." when I was shooting this series. I didn't have much confidence that I was going to get anything at 1/25 so I didn't shoot that much there and this one just didn't have enough sky.

Here's another that's not as wide and slow, and I cropped it just a bit. If I could have just combined the two ideas...lesson learned!