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Kees Sprengers

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« on: July 29, 2010, 06:49:14 am »

I am a people photographer, over the past 8 years almost exclusively photographed ethnic minority groups, their culture and lifestyle, in Northern Laos. http://www.pbase.com/kees5   or http://kees.zenfolio.com/

I have always shied away from landscapes. Lived in New Zealand for many years, and some of the landscapes there just intimidated me, i'd always find that if I'd try and photograph them, i'd end up with a stereotype picture postcard, and I didn't want that.

Just recently, saw a nice shy outside my condo window (Living in Thailand at present), and grabbed my camera. I liked the result, so I had it blown up to 45" wide, and it still held together (I think)

Because of my own landscape-phobia, I'd appreciate any feedback people here could give.

For what it is worth, I used a Canon 5D MkII, 24-70/2.8 Canon zoom at 30 mm, ISO 200 1/400 sec f10. processed uncropped in Lightroom 2

One comment from the printer, who I gave a TIFF saved from LR2, was that there seemed to be a big colourshift in the Tiff he received, compared to the print I showed him. He blamed it on LR2. He fixed it in PS

I had it printed outside because my Epson 800 doesn't do bigger then A2.

The print he produced on an Epson 11080 (I think) looked as if it would have withstood an even larger print. Qua quality I am very happy with the camera lens combo.

But I really would like feedback about the image, rather then the tech details.

The attached jpg shows terrible jpg artefacts in the sky, of course the original doesn't, but has nice smooth gradation. The jpg was saved in LR at 75 ppi and 22/100 quality setting. Any higher setting I feared would produce too bi a file.
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John R Smith

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« Reply #1 on: July 29, 2010, 07:29:33 am »

Kees

I don't think you need to worry, it's a fine picture. A great sky, and the foreground is working well too. Not much else to say, other than it's a shot I'd have been happy to make. Now, maybe you could tell me how to take people pictures . . . .

John
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« Reply #2 on: July 29, 2010, 11:57:57 am »

Kees, Sawadee, khap. For someone who's "not a landscape photographer' you do pretty amazing landscape photographs. I can't criticize it. I don't see how it could be better.
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« Reply #3 on: July 29, 2010, 01:15:17 pm »

Quote from: Kees Sprengers
Just recently, saw a nice shy outside my condo window (Living in Thailand at present), and grabbed my camera.
Nice...

...but what were the other options available to you?

¿what is the picture of? ... the sky is nice as are the boats, mountains and buildings...

This is a picture of the view from your condo window, and that dictated the viewpoint height... but a lower viewpoint would have given you less relatively empty space and more of the boats, buildings... (and yes, this might have put the horizon on the third!).

The bottom left corner, in portrait (vertical) orientation, with the five boats and the mountains would have made a nice shot.

On a different day, when the sky was not so nice, you could use a long lens and make more of the distant mountains or buildings.

With different lenses skys, boats, etc. you could spend many weeks photographing that view!
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« Reply #4 on: July 29, 2010, 02:10:41 pm »

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Nice...

...but what were the other options available to you?

¿what is the picture of? ... the sky is nice as are the boats, mountains and buildings...

This is a picture of the view from your condo window, and that dictated the viewpoint height... but a lower viewpoint would have given you less relatively empty space and more of the boats, buildings... (and yes, this might have put the horizon on the third!).

The bottom left corner, in portrait (vertical) orientation, with the five boats and the mountains would have made a nice shot.

On a different day, when the sky was not so nice, you could use a long lens and make more of the distant mountains or buildings.

With different lenses skys, boats, etc. you could spend many weeks photographing that view!

This is pretty much exactly what I was thinking when I looked at it earlier, just didn't have time to respond then.  Now I'm back and someone else said it for me.

It really is a great view, spend some time with it, there are many, many opportunities here.
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« Reply #5 on: July 29, 2010, 04:37:36 pm »

Another "me too" to what Dick said. It's a beautiful view as you shot it, and the scene has many other great possibilities, too.

Eric

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« Reply #6 on: July 29, 2010, 07:53:23 pm »

I agree with all that was said above.  My first thought when looking at the photo was what a view! (when I read you said this was a view from your condo I imagined a sky behind a mass of condos and tall buildings, i.e., a downtown city view).

Well done.

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