Luminous Landscape Forum
The Art of Photography => Landscape Showcase => Topic started by: stevenfr on February 26, 2019, 12:31:46 pm
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This is an interesting juxtaposition of a sunset with the hillside of snow. Combined with an interesting formation of birch trees. Camera phase One XF IQ4 150.
Hopefully, it has some appeal.
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Those gentle pastels add to the minimalistic composition. Very nice!
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Thanks for the feedback Slobodan
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Those gentle pastels add to the minimalistic composition. Very nice!
+1
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Well done, I still have to try out the IQ4 :)
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Thanks for the feedback Russ and Hans.
Hans the IQ4 150 image quality is stunning. Its hard to explain on the web until you start making large prints.
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That is a beauty!
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Simply, beautiful. The pastel hues are maintained perfectly. My only grip is the centrality of the group of trees. A composition with them slightly further left (or right ), would seal the deal.
Great capture!
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Nice yin-yang with those trees adding nice punctuation. Great balance of gentle colors. Well done!
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Lovely.
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Very nice indeed.
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wonderful color, very nice
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Praise well merited.
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Absolutely beautiful.
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Thanks James, Stamper, Terry, Brandt, Bill, Paulo, and Larry for the kind feedback.
Terry I think I have a composition with the trees just to the right of centre. I picked this composition because it showed the curve of the hill on the right and left and the sunset was not as intense. I tend to find some images can work with the subject centred. If you study some of the well known landscape photographers numerous compositions are centred. Thanks again for the kind feedback. I actually prefer the image cropped as a 1 to 3 or 1 to 2 panoramic.
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Thanks James, Stamper, Terry, Brandt, Bill, Paulo, and Larry for the kind feedback.
Terry I think I have a composition with the trees just to the right of centre. I picked this composition because it showed the curve of the hill on the right and left and the sunset was not as intense. I tend to find some images can work with the subject centred. If you study some of the well known landscape photographers numerous compositions are centred. Thanks again for the kind feedback. I actually prefer the image cropped as a 1 to 3 or 1 to 2 panoramic.
I much prefer the non-pano crop, but then again, I almost always prefer a square or 4:3 crop generally speaking, especially for these minimalist sort of graphic fine art images. As for centering, again, I think that works very, very well with this specific kind of image.
It's one that I wish I had in my portfolio.
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Thanks James. Funny I want everything to be a 1 to 3 pano. I guess it’s to many years of shooting a Horseman 617 film camera.
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I prefer also the pano version. The bottom half in the original picture doesn't add anything to the composition.
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Hi Steve, I like them both but I must say I like the pano a bit more. It reminds me very much of the works by painter Arnold Alaniz. My wife and I used to go to a charity fundraiser auction every year and i usually wound up purchasing one of his works.
In the interest of full disclosure these are not originals but they were signed and numbered copies offered by an outfit that did these actions on a full time basis. Nonetheless I remember we all used to really enjoy them and looked forward to it each year.
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I prefer also the pano version. The bottom half in the original picture doesn't add anything to the composition.
Sure it does :) It adds (negative) space and context and creates what is a crucial "sense of place" for the trees at the center to be in.
IMHO, YMMV etc. :)
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As you say, OMMV, it is indeed matter of personal preference. Similar to Steven, I shot many images on 617 format, so I got conditioned to that format.
If you like negative space, you could convert the image even into a vertical image which would create plenty of negative space for some advertising text or another type of central composition.
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Very nice
mark
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As you say, OMMV, it is indeed matter of personal preference. Similar to Steven, I shot many images on 617 format, so I got conditioned to that format.
If you like negative space, you could convert the image even into a vertical image which would create plenty of negative space for some advertising text or another type of central composition.
I like this one too :). Very flexible image apparently :)
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Les that sure is an interesting idea. I didn't shoot this orientation. I think I am liking the pano format, but I think every image should be a pano.
Kevin I will look up the painter Arnold Alaniz. Thanks
I will post a new image today with Seven Trees - it is a pano.
Steven
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Absolutely gorgeous, all of 'em.
So, for those lesser-endowed among us, is it MFD that enables such subtle tonality?
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Peter
Thanks for the kind feedback. I think it is combination of things, including the fact that it is medium format with the outstanding Schneider lenses. But also, the processing the image through Capture One. The medium format files have incredibly smooth transitions in colours. I describe the images as smooth and sharp at the same time. the gradations of colours is really outstanding.
One thing I have noticed is the IQ4 150 back from Phase One has outstanding colour balance. I suspect it has to do with the Capture One inside the back.
Steven
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Pretty cool! Again what a joy it must be to work with the images in post.
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Thanks Hugh. To be honest not much is done with the images in post. Pretty much straight out of Capture One. Mostly burning and dodging. The new WB is really good in the back.
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Late to this party - beautiful image.
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Very lovely, both versions.
Who said the trouble with art is there's no right ... or wrong ?
Richard
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Thanks Rajan and Richard for the feedback.