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Equipment & Techniques => Landscape & Nature Photography => Topic started by: mvsoske on October 05, 2015, 11:26:50 am

Title: Skye Weather
Post by: mvsoske on October 05, 2015, 11:26:50 am
After leaving the Talisker Distillery, we came across this scene with clouds, rain, and sun.  The Isle of Skye is absolutely stunning.
Title: Re: Skye Weather
Post by: MattBurt on October 05, 2015, 11:44:56 am
Lovely scene and well taken. My only nit to pick is that post on the left. It keeps drawing my eye to it.
Title: Re: Skye Weather
Post by: mvsoske on October 05, 2015, 12:09:09 pm
Thanks Matt.  Yes, agree re: the post.

Mark
Title: Re: Skye Weather
Post by: Vieri Bottazzini on October 05, 2015, 12:28:50 pm
Lovely scene and well taken. My only nit to pick is that post on the left. It keeps drawing my eye to it.

+1
Title: Re: Skye Weather
Post by: polaris-14 on October 05, 2015, 01:43:50 pm
Mark, this is outstanding. The aspect ratio, color, and light, everything is so beautifully placed here.
Title: Re: Skye Weather
Post by: mvsoske on October 05, 2015, 03:25:33 pm
Thank you Vieri and Adhika.

Mark
Title: Re: Skye Weather
Post by: stamper on October 06, 2015, 03:50:43 am
A post without the post would make it a very nice image. A fine Scottish scene.
Title: Re: Skye Weather
Post by: mvsoske on October 06, 2015, 09:18:19 am
Thanks Robert, agree.

Mark
Title: Re: Skye Weather
Post by: stamper on October 06, 2015, 09:33:47 am
This would easily be cloned out rather than cropped. I am not against cropping but cropping it would mean the gorse would have an abrupt ending at the frame where as at the moment the gorse is tapering off towards the frame.
Title: Re: Skye Weather
Post by: AreBee on October 06, 2015, 09:54:01 am
stamper,

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...gorse...

Ling heather.
Title: Re: Skye Weather
Post by: stamper on October 06, 2015, 10:16:32 am
stamper,

Ling heather.

Rob I was referring to the yellow plants to the rear of the post.

http://www.wildlifetrusts.org/species/gorse
Title: Re: Skye Weather
Post by: AreBee on October 06, 2015, 10:20:16 am
stamper,

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...I was referring to the yellow plants to the rear of the post.

The sunlit plants?
Title: Re: Skye Weather
Post by: stamper on October 06, 2015, 10:28:07 am
stamper,

The sunlit plants?

The yellow ones.
Title: Re: Skye Weather
Post by: AreBee on October 06, 2015, 10:32:37 am
stamper,

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The yellow ones.

The yellow sunlit plants?
Title: Re: Skye Weather
Post by: stamper on October 06, 2015, 10:35:08 am
stamper,

The yellow sunlit plants?

Do you have anything positive or negative to state about the image or are you just nitpicking....as usual? :(
Title: Re: Skye Weather
Post by: AreBee on October 06, 2015, 10:54:02 am
stamper,

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Do you have anything positive or negative to state about the image...

It would be inappropriate for me to critique a photo in the Landscape & Nature forum - that's what the User Critiques forum is intended for.

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...or are you just nitpicking...

I thought you may be pleased to learn the correct name for the plant synonymous with the Highlands, which covers five million acres (http://www.scottish-at-heart.com/scottish-heather.html).
Title: Re: Skye Weather
Post by: stamper on October 07, 2015, 04:09:27 am
stamper,

It would be inappropriate for me to critique a photo in the Landscape & Nature forum - that's what the User Critiques forum is intended for.

Are you going to report the other three members - and myself - to the moderator because they commented on an image they shouldn't have? :(
Title: Re: Skye Weather
Post by: AreBee on October 07, 2015, 04:26:35 am
stamper,

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Are you going to report the other three members - and myself - to the moderator because they commented on an image they shouldn't have?

Don't be absurd.

Some forum members welcome critique of photographs they post in the Landscape & Nature forum. Some forum members are happy to provide it. I am not.
Title: Re: Skye Weather
Post by: stamper on October 07, 2015, 04:46:10 am
Have you posted any for critique? I haven't seen any but if you have I will be happy to comment. ;) I had a look at your site. Shame there isn't any text to state where they were taken and when. A little text about yourself would go a long way, after all that is what a site is for....self promotion?
Title: Re: Skye Weather
Post by: AreBee on October 07, 2015, 04:55:58 am
stamper,

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Have you posted any for critique?

No.

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I had a look at your site. Shame there isn't any text to state where they were taken and when.

Pause the start-up slideshow.
Title: Re: Skye Weather
Post by: stamper on October 07, 2015, 05:28:47 am
I tried that and failed. A lot of your visitors will probably like me assume that there isn't any text?

Update. I clicked on the two red "dots" top left and all was revealed. Your site is now looking a lot "better"
Title: Re: Skye Weather
Post by: Jimbo57 on October 07, 2015, 05:30:44 am
Why wreck someone's photo thread with all this inane argument?

Gorse is gorse and if anyone doesn't know their moorland plants, it is no reason to rubbish someone else's contribution.

It is almost as if someone other than the OP had been overdoing the Talisker.
Title: Re: Skye Weather
Post by: stamper on October 07, 2015, 05:34:46 am
Why wreck someone's photo thread with all this inane argument?

Gorse is gorse and if anyone doesn't know their moorland plants, it is no reason to rubbish someone else's contribution.

It is almost as if someone other than the OP had been overdoing the Talisker.

Jimbo you are correct. My last post was the last on the subject.
Title: Re: Skye Weather
Post by: Chairman Bill on October 07, 2015, 05:37:58 am
I'd like to see more of that post. And some gorse.  :)
Title: Re: Skye Weather
Post by: AreBee on October 07, 2015, 06:13:20 am
stamper,

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A lot of your visitors will probably like me assume that there isn't any text?

Perhaps the absence of text is a good thing.


Jimbo57,

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Why wreck someone's photo thread...

Threads frequently diverge from the direction originally intended - sometimes several conversations take place simultaneously within the same thread.

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Gorse is gorse...

...but not ling heather.

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...if anyone doesn't know their moorland plants, it is no reason to rubbish someone else's contribution.

I did not "rubbish" stamper's "contribution" - I corrected one word in one post. Given the near-ubiquity of ling heather in the Highlands I thought it would be helpful to raise the distinction.