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Equipment & Techniques => Landscape & Nature Photography => Topic started by: KMRennie on May 18, 2016, 02:36:44 pm

Title: Bluebells
Post by: KMRennie on May 18, 2016, 02:36:44 pm

It's bluebell season in Cumbria. 3 different types of shot. All comments welcome.
Ken

Title: Re: Bluebells
Post by: Colorado David on May 18, 2016, 02:45:01 pm

I like them all, but I'm especially drawn to 1 and 3.  Three is excellent.

Title: Re: Bluebells
Post by: Eric Myrvaagnes on May 18, 2016, 05:02:38 pm

Quote from: Colorado David on May 18, 2016, 02:45:01 pm

I like them all, but I'm especially drawn to 1 and 3.  Three is excellent.

I totally agree.

Title: Re: Bluebells
Post by: Chairman Bill on May 18, 2016, 06:11:16 pm

They're all good, but no.3 is really nice.

Title: Re: Bluebells
Post by: MattBurt on May 18, 2016, 06:30:59 pm

They look great. I like the composition and the clouds in #2 but the light is just so-so.
All three are very nice.

Title: Re: Bluebells
Post by: brandtb on May 18, 2016, 10:14:34 pm

The subjects and compostion in 1 and 3 are great...framing/cropping in 3 unexpected and powerful. Not sure about vignetting(?) on this? Mabe pull that back a bit. I don't think 2 is a successful image because the tree and ground subjects are both so "chattery" if you will...they cancel each other out. /B

Title: Re: Bluebells
Post by: francois on May 19, 2016, 03:11:33 am

I also like #1 and #3. Great job!

Title: Re: Bluebells
Post by: stamper on May 19, 2016, 03:28:55 am

I agree about 1 & 3, especially number 3 and the inclusion of the person. Number 2 looks a little over sharpened or too much clarity.

Title: Re: Bluebells
Post by: Paulo Bizarro on May 19, 2016, 03:50:16 am

#3 is quite attractive. First impression is that it is tilted to the right, until one notices the person.

Title: Re: Bluebells
Post by: thierrylegros396 on May 19, 2016, 06:32:32 am

Quote from: Chairman Bill on May 18, 2016, 06:11:16 pm

They're all good, but no.3 is really nice.

+1

Thierry

Title: Re: Bluebells
Post by: KMRennie on May 19, 2016, 07:18:00 am

Thanks everyone. Shot #1 is just an exercise in negative clarity to soften the already soft shot of the bluebells waving in the breeze. I must have looked daft lying on the ground with camera on tripod, 70-200 lens, close up lens on front taking shots of bluebells a few cm in front of me, luckily it hadn't rained for over a week so the ground was dry.
Brandt you are probably correct about the vignetting on #3 it will need to be backed off a lot when I print it. For some reason I had applied 10 points of clarity to #2, this one has some negative clarity applied to the foreground. I just like the shape of the tree and the blossom on it but trying to shoot it without crushing the bluebells was difficult. Unfortunately I get seduced by contrast and detail all over and need to stop doing it everytime.
Ken

Title: Re: Bluebells
Post by: maddogmurph on May 19, 2016, 10:44:59 pm

They are all pretty good imho.

Title: Re: Bluebells
Post by: thierrylegros396 on May 20, 2016, 03:15:41 am

For the 3rd, vignetting is only annoying above and mainly on the left.

Have a Nice Day.

Thierry

Title: Re: Bluebells
Post by: John Koerner on May 29, 2016, 12:48:14 pm

I like them all as well, but #1 for me, excellent color, light, bokeh :)