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Equipment & Techniques => Landscape & Nature Photography => Topic started by: sdwilsonsct on July 12, 2016, 02:05:39 pm

Title: Dream homes
Post by: sdwilsonsct on July 12, 2016, 02:05:39 pm
and a church.
Feedback welcome.
Title: Re: Dream homes
Post by: Slobodan Blagojevic on July 12, 2016, 02:22:30 pm
The first one reminds me of Andrew Wyeth's famous painting, even if the ratio of sky to foreground is reversed:

(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a2/Christinasworld.jpg)
Title: Re: Dream homes
Post by: drmike on July 12, 2016, 02:35:15 pm
You have some magnificent clouds in 1 & 3. Did you explore B&W?
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Post by: MattBurt on July 12, 2016, 02:44:46 pm
Very nice. What #2 lacks in clouds it makes up for with that golden light.
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Post by: Bob_B on July 12, 2016, 07:42:48 pm
+whatever. A very nice set. There's merit in each, and each deserves repeated views.
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Post by: Sean H on July 12, 2016, 10:12:39 pm
+1
+whatever. A very nice set. There's merit in each, and each deserves repeated views.
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Post by: Paulo Bizarro on July 13, 2016, 04:05:36 am
Truly wide open space, well done.
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Post by: John Koerner on July 13, 2016, 02:00:46 pm
Nice images ... although the third one is a church, not a home :)
Title: Re: Dream homes
Post by: sdwilsonsct on July 13, 2016, 08:17:53 pm
Thanks folks. Perhaps Wyeth is why I've gone back to that spot a couple of times. Next time I'll take a model.
Title: Re: Dream homes
Post by: sdwilsonsct on July 14, 2016, 03:15:56 am
You have some magnificent clouds in 1 & 3. Did you explore B&W?

Eventually. #1 seems surreal enough, but #3 might work. Thanks, Mike.
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Post by: francois on July 14, 2016, 04:06:53 am
A beautiful set of photos with vast expanses of sky and land.
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Post by: Jeremy Roussak on July 14, 2016, 04:07:38 am
Eventually. #1 seems surreal enough, but #3 might work. Thanks, Mike.

Yes!

Jeremy
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Post by: luxborealis on July 14, 2016, 05:50:15 am
Great series! And great potential for more, no doubt.
Title: Re: Dream homes
Post by: James Clark on July 15, 2016, 05:29:46 pm
Eventually. #1 seems surreal enough, but #3 might work. Thanks, Mike.

3 is killer in B&W :)
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Post by: graeme on July 15, 2016, 05:39:13 pm
3 is killer in B&W :)

+1
Title: Re: Dream homes
Post by: sdwilsonsct on July 16, 2016, 09:47:43 am
3 is killer in B&W :)

Thanks, all. Message received! It is interesting to me how b&w plays up the texture. I guess that's the point...
Title: Re: Dream homes
Post by: drmike on July 16, 2016, 12:46:11 pm
It does seem to have worked quite well.
Title: Re: Dream homes
Post by: James Clark on July 16, 2016, 02:05:21 pm
Thanks, all. Message received! It is interesting to me how b&w plays up the texture. I guess that's the point...

I can't speak for anyone else, but for me, it's not JUST the texture.  It's also the fact that the very muted green grass/foreground really comes to life as a dramatic contrast when given the BW treatment.  Instead of looking like an underexposed (which it isn't really, but the "correct" exposure in this case is very dark) receding area of interest, the BW treatment makes the structure and foreground an integral part of the contrast between the various parts of the image.
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Post by: Rajan Parrikar on July 17, 2016, 11:29:54 am
The second image is lovely.
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Post by: Chris Calohan on July 17, 2016, 12:09:34 pm
Where are you located? I'm about to make a foray across the country from Fl to Colorado, then up into the Tetons, Yellowstone and across and up to the Palouse of Eastern WA...I want to see some old house like these.
Title: Re: Dream homes
Post by: sdwilsonsct on July 18, 2016, 02:47:23 am
...the BW treatment makes the structure and foreground an integral part of the contrast between the various parts of the image.

Good point, thanks, James. I am still getting used to B&W.

Chris: these are in southern Saskatchewan, but if you go back through eastern Wyoming and South Dakota you should see lots of these. Take the back roads.
Title: Re: Dream homes
Post by: Chris Calohan on July 18, 2016, 05:26:25 am
Driving a 30 foot motor home, back roads are all I take. Blue and red highways only for me. Southern Saskatchewan isn't that far out of context for this trip. Hmmmmmmmmmmm