Luminous Landscape Forum
The Art of Photography => User Critiques => Topic started by: SJ.Butel on July 04, 2010, 06:27:48 pm
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Hey,
Here is a small series on fences that I have been taking this year.
A color at the end to get your senses back
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Steve, They're interesting shots. I'd vote for the first as best, even though you've out Anseled Ansel with the contrast manipulations. To my eye though, some of the others fail because of a lack of depth of field. In this kind of shot I don't think you can afford to let either the foreground or background drop out of focus. They're all tripod, tiny hole, slow shutter-speed situations. But then, landscape isn't my forte, so I'll leave it to the landscape folks to decide whether or not I'm right.
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I'll agree with much of what Russ said. I'm especially bothered by the lack of depth of field in the second.
I do think this is the start of a very promising group and I hope you'll keep at it for many more fences. The fourth one has a special charm.
Eric
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Thanks for the comments guys it is much appreciated.
RSL, you may say landscapes are not your forte, but from the pictures i've seen i don't care because clearly you have more of an idea than most landscape photographers who focus in the area (including me) so your comments are most welcome.
Ya, i did go a bit more overboard than usual with the burn brush on the first one but I was very happy with the result (this time:)).
Honestly they were all shot on a tripod with mf + live view and I was trying for the shortish dof to bring more focus towards the barbs in the barbed wire but i understand what you mean and looking back I see that at the very least i should of stopped down for another shot after.
Glad you like the last one Eric, i made two exposures to blend the focus but it didn't have the same effect and I was not sure what others would think about the out of focus bits.
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The first one is also my favourite.
Mike.
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Steve, They're interesting shots. I'd vote for the first as best, even though you've out Anseled Ansel with the contrast manipulations. To my eye though, some of the others fail because of a lack of depth of field. In this kind of shot I don't think you can afford to let either the foreground or background drop out of focus.
What he said.
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Number 4 is my favourite composition. I think it would be better if I could see the top of the tree - you could have done this by moving a fraction to the left, or by removing the offending icicle! I suppose that is pre rather than post processing.
Number 1 is a good composition but to my taste it is a bit over-Anseled. But this is just a matter of taste and you obviously got what you wanted, which is what matters. The Anseling may work better when displayed as a large print.
Good potential in this series I think.
Ed
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Interestig series. I too like the first the most but I can't avoid the nagging suspicion that it would have been a better photo without the fence...
Jeremy