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Evening Light (with additional images)

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Posted by Justin Peterson on July 21, 2009 at 5:57 PM
Got my new lens (Olympus ZD 70-300) and tried it out in the fading light yesterday evening. Original/larger version can be seen on my flickr site (link is below). Any comments/critiques welcome. Thanks in advance for looking.
Posted by Justin Peterson on July 21, 2009 at 10:39 PM
#2
Posted by Justin Peterson on July 21, 2009 at 10:40 PM
#3
Posted by Justin Peterson on July 21, 2009 at 10:41 PM
#4
Posted by Jack Garrett on July 21, 2009 at 11:37 PM
Well, I like #2 and #4 a lot. The light in the 2nd one is really nice! #1 doesn't do much for me and #3 is kind of a road to nowhere..I'm not really drawn into this image. For #4, this is a fine image but I'd like to see it a little more centered..the left side seems cut off a little too much.
Posted by John Mumaw on July 21, 2009 at 11:56 PM
#1 would have been excellent had that daisy faced you or the setting sun.
I like the sidelit plant (#2) quite a bit.
Posted by Todd Caudle on July 22, 2009 at 1:08 AM
I really like #4!
Posted by Rod Chandler on July 22, 2009 at 11:35 AM
I think #2 and #4 are awesome shots. #3 might have made it had you stopped down and had the entire road in focus.
Posted by Nick Moore on July 22, 2009 at 2:26 PM
I vote for #2 and #4 too, great light to test out the new lens with!.
Posted by Justin Peterson on July 22, 2009 at 11:26 PM
Thanks, everyone, for the kind comments. It definitely seems like #2 and #4 are the preferred ones, which is funny because #1 and #3 are mine. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, I guess, right? Thanks again for the comments.
Posted by Stan Rose on July 23, 2009 at 7:17 AM
I also like 2 & 4. The other two are too blurry for me, but it could be my eyes recovering from sand.
Posted by Dan Gerth on July 23, 2009 at 3:15 PM
# 2 for me, I really like the lighting and composition..

3 works backward for me; my eye follows the road from bottom to top, but when it gets to the top, everything is OOF. Maybe leaving the foreground blurry and focusing further down the road would help.

In 4, The thistle bloom breaking the frame on the left is distracting, but I don't really know how to fix it short of cloning it out completely.