Luminous Landscape Forum
Equipment & Techniques => Landscape & Nature Photography => Topic started by: Dave Pluimer on January 25, 2014, 09:17:59 am
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(http://davepluimer.smugmug.com/Land-Sky/i-LshpWHS/0/L/KanSands__20140118_8244-L.jpg)
Beaver Lake Nature Preserve, Indiana. Canon 6D, Canon 70-200 f/4 L IS
Another early morning shot from last weekend. Any critiques are very welcome.
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Lovely sky. I don't think the blurred grasses in the foreground add anything, though. I'd crop it just below the base of the tree.
Jeremy
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Good as it is for me.
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Works for me, great colours in the sky.
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Thanks, everyone, for the feedback and comments.
I'm torn about the foreground. Even it if was in focus, I don't know how much it would add. But, when I consider the whole frame, it does help separate the image into 1/3s. Then again, maybe I'm only justifying?
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I'd crop the bottom so that the grassy foreground is about 1/4 of the total height of the image. This doesn't fit the "rule of thirds," but it looks right to me for the photo.
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Lovely sky. I don't think the blurred grasses in the foreground add anything, though. I'd crop it just below the base of the tree.
Jeremy
I agree.
Mike.
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Thanks, everyone, for the feedback and comments.
I'm torn about the foreground. Even it if was in focus, I don't know how much it would add. But, when I consider the whole frame, it does help separate the image into 1/3s. Then again, maybe I'm only justifying?
You're not locked into the aspect ratio of the camera - try a square crop of the upper ⅔s.
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I'd crop the bottom so that the grassy foreground is about 1/4 of the total height of the image. This doesn't fit the "rule of thirds," but it looks right to me for the photo.
I also agree but it's a nice image with glorious colors.
Edit: correction, I mean with glorious colors and not without…
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I would keep the grass. When I had only seen the top half of the photograph before scrolling down, my first thought was: this is a rather typical and boring sunset photograph. However, when I scrolled down, I actually enjoyed the photograph. The grass adds to the impact of the photograph. It adds movement and life - you can almost hear the quiet swishing of the wind blowing though it.
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I would keep the grass.
Yes. The depth of the grass gives a strong feeling of place.
I'd crop the sky and a tad from the left.
(https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1594818/pix/KanSands__20140118_8244-L.jpg)
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Wonderful light and colours. If there was enough wind to blur the grasses a bit more, it would be interesting to see the result. Or perhaps use a ND filter to drag the exposure a bit more?
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Great work!