Luminous Landscape Forum
Equipment & Techniques => Landscape & Nature Photography => Topic started by: sdwilsonsct on August 13, 2015, 09:39:30 am
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Too dark (as usual)? Suggestions welcome.
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I like them but I am a gloomy so and so. They remind me of many summer holidays in exactly this weather, maybe needs more rain. Hebrides?
Ken
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Good to know that, Ken. ;) These are from Unstad and Skagastrand in Lofoten.
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If that is the mood you want to convey, than they are not too dark.
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Looks just like some of the days I've spent on Lofoten. However, nice days are absolutely glorious. I do remember being driven into the tent without dinner one very nice evening because the breeze went down and the no-see-ums swarmed so hard I couldn't get the camp stove lit. :)
Chuck
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Excellent compositions, but I think both would be stronger in rich B&Ws.
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No, not too dark. They also remind me of some rainy, foggy summer weather on the Atlantic coast.
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I prefer #1, but it needs the horizon to be level. The foreground rocks are a good subject, and the distant hills in the haze complement them rather nicely.
In #2, I don't think the composition works. The foreground and background "rocks" are superimposed and too centred.
B&W candidate for #1? It would enhance the broody feel.
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Thanks for all the feedback. I'll look into B&W.
Yes, Chuck, the bugs here can be as bad as anywhere. Lately I have been discarding shots with mosquitoes in the sky.
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Excellent compositions, but I think both would be stronger in rich B&Ws.
Agreed. You shouldn't start off apologizing for what is your vision and rendering of an image. If you like it that is fine and for others to like it it is a bonus?
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Agreed. You shouldn't start off apologizing for what is your vision and rendering of an image. If you like it that is fine and for others to like it it is a bonus?
Sure. I am just frustrated by the unremitting gloominess of my images. Perhaps I'll start going out at times other than rainy evenings.
Here's a B+W, and a non-centered image taken at the same time as #2 above. Thanks for pointing out the horizon, Paulo.
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I much prefer the new B+W to the previous version, in which the color didn't seem to me to add anything. This one is nice.
The new second image is more interesting to me than the previous second image. The color works better than in the very first image, and the composition feels more interesting than in the centered rock. I'm not certain that the color adds. You might try a B+W of thus, but I don't guarantee it will work better.
But the new B+W is very nice, and the somber rock is matched very well by the glowing light on the horizon.