Luminous Landscape Forum
The Art of Photography => User Critiques => Topic started by: Chairman Bill on November 16, 2015, 06:00:19 pm
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View from somewhere between Cold Pike & Great Knott, Lake District
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This might be a nice b&w, using an orange or red filters, allowing the reddish rocks to stand out (become lighter) in contrast to the blue sky and green grass (that would turn darker). Also, a little bit more foreground and a little bit less top sky might help the composition. But hey, the view is quite nice!
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Other than, perhaps, the distance to the sea, I don't know that you have left anything out and still it seems quit sensible.
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That is a grand image. There are a lot of ways you could treat it in post, or not.
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Wow, what a majestic view! The only thing I'm not too sure about is the foreground - either too little or too much.
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fantastic subject...you might look at it with either upper 1/8th or upper 1/5th cropped off (not sure about the processing, especially the upper blues)
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Now, that is a view! I also feel a bit more foreground and a bit less sky might improve the composition. Maybe a bit less processing in the sky? The blue seems a bit saturated on my (uncalibrated) monitor. That said, I'd be very happy if I had taken this photograph.
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There is something about the minimal amount of foreground included that works extremely well for me personally, can't really describe it other than "it introduces a dizzying sense of height and distance covered looking down".
It's almost is if you are standing on a dangerously narrow ridge looking down into the beautiful valley, rocks slipping from beneath your feet and falling down the steep slope..... a very strong sense of "being there".
I also think that effect would be lost totally if there were more foreground included.
A more than fine image to me Bill.
Cheers, Sander
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This might be a nice b&w, using an orange or red filters, allowing the reddish rocks to stand out (become lighter) in contrast to the blue sky and green grass (that would turn darker). Also, a little bit more foreground and a little bit less top sky might help the composition. But hey, the view is quite nice!
This is amazing. I'm agreeing with Slobodan again, right down the line. The biggest problem I see is that the horizon is almost smack dab in the middle of the scene. There are times when that makes sense, but this isn't one of them.
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The sky does look a tad overcooked, but comparing it against the raw files, not a lot in fact. I didn't increase the saturation at all, it's just the contrast adjustment that's the culprit here.
The near foreground was deliberate - there wasn't much of it, and what there wasn't particularly interesting. Besides, I wanted that sense of the ridge just dropping away. Once I'd done that, and wanting to keep the camera straight on to make stitching easier, the amount of sky was a given - fixed lens X100s has its limitations.
Anyway, here's a B&W version, with the sky cropped a bit.
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Rather than start another thread, here's two more from the same day on the hills
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Great compositions, subjects...all the way around...a fantastic day to be there it seems...I think these are much stronger than the pano. Not sure about processing...from file difficult to tell focus/out of focus/noise in the foreground/middleground area of the 2nd (was this crop?). /B
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Not a crop, and at f8 (I think it was) on a 23mm lens (Fujifilm X100s), pretty much everything there is in focus. At 100 ISO, there shouldn't really be any noise either
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I'm in love with the "Landgdale.jpg" one, the details, the dynamic range, thanks for showing the awesomeness with that little camera capable to do. Way to go!!!
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Another one from later the same day, on the descent from Bow Fell, approaching Angle Tarn
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All fine stuff Bill. No nitpicks from me!
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Not a crop, and at f8 (I think it was) on a 23mm lens (Fujifilm X100s), pretty much everything there is in focus. At 100 ISO, there shouldn't really be any noise either
I keep going back and forth if a X100x series is worth it when I already have a X-E1 with the 23 1.4 and 27 2.8 and the answer keeps on changing. You photos shows you are not that limited by it.
Btw, ISO 100?
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You've well captured a grand place. Really makes me want to be there.
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armand - 200 ISO. My mistake