Dartmoor B&W

[Chairman Bill]

I was on Dartmoor yesterday. Lots of weather - hail, sleet, snow, squally showers, torrential windblown hail, rain, more hail, lots more wind. Most precipitation was horizontal rather than vertical. This isn't the best shot of the day, but the one I most want some feedback on. It really was dark & gloomy, and I've emphasised this a bit in this B&W conversion. Question is, have I strayed into over-cooking rather than simply creating a darker mood?

[Eric Myrvaagnes]

It does not look overcooked at all to me, Bill. It expresses very well the dark and foreboding nature of Dartmoor (which I know only from fictional accounts).

I like it just as it is.

Eric

[Chairman Bill]

Thanks Eric

[francois]

I'm with Eric on this image. I like it a lot and the dark mood doesn't seem overdone at all.
Well done!

[Jim Pascoe]

Lovely Bill.  Not all my experiences of Dartmoor look like this, but it sums up how I always think of it after a very wet D of E expedition there as a teenager, and a few years later doing Practical Leadership exercises there while in the Navy in very wet conditions.  My daughter lives on the edge of Dartmoor now and I have had some sunny days too!  This sort of picture and it's treatment is what got me into serious photography.  More please.

Jim

[RSL]

Is that Holmes and Watson I see disappearing behind that hill in the middle distance on the right?

Fine shot, Bill. The mood comes through powerfully.

[Chairman Bill]

Thanks each. I conclude that it's a keeper.

[Slobodan Blagojevic]

+1

[Jeremy Roussak]

Thanks each. I conclude that it's a keeper.

Wonderful shot. I feel cold and miserable just looking at it. All I need to perfect the mood is a Shostakovich symphony on the CD player.

Jeremy

[Chairman Bill]

I know it's been a while, but rather than start another thread, I thought it best to just add to this one

[Jeremy Roussak]

I think the foreground in the third adds nothing and distracts from the magnificent swirling cloud, mist and rain (I assume) in the distance. Apart from that, great set, the fourth in particular.

Jeremy

[Chairman Bill]

OK. Fair comment. I was intitially attracted by the colour contrast, but converting it to B&W I was thinking of the contrast between the spiky grass & reeds & the swirling cloud. You're probably right - it doesn't work so well. Maybe one for colour.

[Eric Myrvaagnes]

Never having been anywhere near Dartmoor, I am impressed with the mood these images convey, which matches so well what I've read about the place.

Jeremy is probably right about the third one, but the way I see it is that even under bright light Dartmoor has a sinister look to it.

Fine set.

Eric

[armand]

I know it's been a while, but rather than start another thread, I thought it best to just add to this one

Is that the 18-35?

[Chairman Bill]

Yep

[graeme]

Very nice images Bill. I initially agreed with Jeremy's opinion of the third one but I find that it's growing on me. You could probably post it in the 'Abstracts' thread.