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Equipment & Techniques => Landscape & Nature Photography => Topic started by: Kees Molenaar on June 22, 2015, 10:11:58 am

Title: First Post, Waddenzee
Post by: Kees Molenaar on June 22, 2015, 10:11:58 am: Hi All,
after lurking around for some time and being impressed by the amount of experience found on this site, I finally found the courage for my first post. Having picked up my first dslr about 4 years ago I now no longer can imagine being without a camera. I am mainly focussing on landscape and portrait work and learning every day. I am living in the northern part of The Netherlands.

Last saturday I drove upto the coast of the Waddenzee and came home with these 2 shots.
interested in your opinions as I hope to be able to learn from you all
Cheers,
Kees
Title: Re: First Post, Waddenzee
Post by: Bob_B on June 22, 2015, 10:22:56 am: Welcome, and thank you for sharing these two beauties. I like both, but prefer the second for the dichotomy between the left and right water and sky. I hope you'll post more.
Title: Re: First Post, Waddenzee
Post by: Eric Myrvaagnes on June 22, 2015, 01:45:02 pm: Quote from: Bob_B on June 22, 2015, 10:22:56 am
Welcome, and thank you for sharing these two beauties. I like both, but prefer the second for the dichotomy between the left and right water and sky. I hope you'll post more.
Me too.

I also like the way the edge of the cloud echoes the shape of the line of piles in the first one.
Title: Re: First Post, Waddenzee
Post by: Jeremy Roussak on June 22, 2015, 02:53:06 pm: Welcome indeed. I too prefer #2. The sky in #1 is good: perhaps it might be better without the bottom third, so it's just sea and sky.

Jeremy
Title: Re: First Post, Waddenzee
Post by: Kees Molenaar on June 23, 2015, 04:27:52 am: Thanks for your nice comments guys,
Had to lookup "dichotomy" (English not being my first language, so can not only improve my photography but also my english here ;-) ) but indeed that describes perfectly what triggered me to make this shot.

Regarding cropping off the bottom part of the first image, I' ll definitely give it a try when I am back home.

Kees
Title: Re: First Post, Waddenzee
Post by: Paulo Bizarro on June 23, 2015, 04:29:09 am: Seascapes and shorescapes are one of my favourite subjects. I like these two shots, but more #2; I think #1 would have benefited from shooting a few meters forward, losing the somewhat uninteresting foreground.
Title: Re: First Post, Waddenzee
Post by: luxborealis on June 23, 2015, 08:00:18 am: Welcome! Great first post.

I'm enjoying the discussion regarding the second image because, for me, it's the first one I prefer with its great sky and the ideal composition which creates movement through and around the scene. The foreground seaweed is a distraction in that it breaks the rhythm of the composition. Cropping or cloning would solve that.

The second photograph is growing on me. What I like is that given its directness and less interesting sky, it's probably not a composition I would have made (which is why the first is so "comfortable" to me). This second photograph causes me to think beyond the obvious.

Thanks for sharing.
Title: Re: First Post, Waddenzee
Post by: Cem on June 23, 2015, 09:05:37 am: Hi Kees,

From one Dutchie to another, welkom! And thanks for sharing these nice pictures. I will not comment on possibility of different crops or perspectives, they have been mentioned already. I enjoy them as they are. :)
Title: Re: First Post, Waddenzee
Post by: brandtb on June 23, 2015, 09:15:34 am: Mooi. I think you're capturing the tones, essence, subjects, very well...and the "spirit of the place"...have a friends in northern NL that post pictures of the Waddenzee from time to time and am familiar. I think the second not as successful as the first for compositional reasons. The foreground, background, and the l/r middleground are very distinct and separate...plus that it is bisected. That said the sky is beautiful and the tones as well. /B