Luminous Landscape Forum
Equipment & Techniques => Landscape & Nature Photography => Topic started by: KMRennie on March 29, 2016, 08:31:38 am
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This is a mile from home, the clouds looked menacing and I knew that after the winter the graveyard of this 12th century abbey would be looking a little uncared for. I have also taken images with a 6 stop filter to soften the clouds and will get round to looking at them later today. All comments welcome.
Ken
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Nice composition. Lots of gothic horror vibe to your photo.
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You have captured the mood nicely. A keeper.
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Beautifully creepy. Well executed.
The only tiny nit I have is that those daffodils look a bit too cheery for the scene. But I'm glad you didn't dig them up and toss them for the sake of the picture.
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Nice composition. Lots of gothic horror vibe to your photo.
What Bob said!!
Kevin in CT
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Looks like the set of a Hitchcock movie. Nice!
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B&W is of course perfect here - although sepia could be interesting perhaps as well...
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Thanks for the comments everyone. I agree about the daffs, they don't really fit in with the mood. They are everywhere here but I will photoshop them into oblivion. Another version of the Abbey a 4s exposure this time. I think that I need to crop a little off both ends but I will sit on it for a few days. If the clouds stay big and nasty I will go back and try and find a place where the large gravestone on the right isn't covering a bit of the church. All comments welcome.
Ken
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In keeping with the gothic theme I really like those daffodils; they do really lend a contradictory bent to the image - just the thing to raise the tension in the image.
Great stuff!
Tony Jay
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Great stuff, I prefer the second composition.
It's a place I've passed many times (Being along the road in Newcastle) but never stopped at. I think that will change the next time I'm over west.
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Interesting subjects, but the "look" and "processing" overwhelms the subject...and becomes a subject.
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I agree with you Brandt I think I have gone a bit too far with the large radius sharpening. Sometimes when I sit in front of an image I keep pushing it to give it more "snap" but after viewing a few "normal" images mine look overprocessed. I have returned today and taken more images trying to a avoid the daffodils and will process them in a few days. We have had a fresh fall of snow on the Lake District hills so I will go for a dawn shoot tomorrow.
Ken
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I agree with Tony Jay as to the Daffodils. For me and in an odd sense of wording, they provide a bit of comic relief. Such an otherwise dreary scene is lifted back to life by simple spring flowers.
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Good composition, spooky.
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On second, third, and fourth look (at least) I've come around to agreeing that the daffodils add to the original image.
I also think the processing is absolutely right for these images, since you are establishing a mood and not simply showing us what the priory looks like.
-Eric
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Thanks for the comments everyone. I agree about the daffs, they don't really fit in with the mood. They are everywhere here but I will photoshop them into oblivion. Another version of the Abbey a 4s exposure this time. I think that I need to crop a little off both ends but I will sit on it for a few days. If the clouds stay big and nasty I will go back and try and find a place where the large gravestone on the right isn't covering a bit of the church. All comments welcome.
Ken
I was about to write how perfect the daffs are in this setting, providing a real contrast - beauty within the ruins; life from death. Personally I would leave them. In fact, from a commercial perspective, I would have them in colour surrounded by the B&W (for those who otherwise might not "get it").