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Equipment & Techniques => Landscape & Nature Photography => Topic started by: sdwilsonsct on November 03, 2013, 01:53:01 pm

Title: Still standing
Post by: sdwilsonsct on November 03, 2013, 01:53:01 pm
Thanks for looking. Suggestions welcome.
Title: Re: Still standing
Post by: batmura on November 03, 2013, 02:26:58 pm
Number two is excellent. I would love to see number one the same way without that foreground element. It just doesn't work IMO. Great shots!
Title: Re: Still standing
Post by: Paulo Bizarro on November 04, 2013, 04:12:56 am
#3 is very intriguing, and really depicts the abandonment of the place.
Title: Re: Still standing
Post by: francois on November 04, 2013, 07:03:22 am
Each of those three photos has something that I like. The first, for me, is about the light. I like it a lot but the shed doesn't seem "straight"… It gives me a feeling of tipping over. I like the framing and perspective of the second image and I agree with Paulo on the third image and what it evokes.
Title: Re: Still standing
Post by: sdwilsonsct on November 04, 2013, 01:04:20 pm
Thanks, Murat, Paulo and Francois.

Glad StJoseph had some impact. He stands atop a pile of tombstones gathered up from a cemetery that is now a wheatfield. If he had eyes he would be gazing at the former site of a village.

That shed ain't straight, Francois. Nor is the one in the background.  ;)
Title: Re: Still standing
Post by: francois on November 05, 2013, 03:22:09 am
…That shed ain't straight, Francois. Nor is the one in the background.  ;)

That's what I thought... No need to spend $$$ on T/S lenses or countless hours in post processing and in the end, a beautiful image is not about getting walls/roof perfectly square.
 :D
Title: Re: Still standing
Post by: brandtb on November 05, 2013, 01:49:18 pm
Scott re. barn...I would've moved camera loc. a bit to right...so there is some more "spread" btw debris and the barn in bg...and also to get a little more of the right side of the barn. /B
Title: Re: Still standing
Post by: sdwilsonsct on November 06, 2013, 11:52:27 am
Francois, I usually shoot this location with T/S to get it as straight as possible. Hope springs eternal.

Thanks, Brandt. Good suggestion. I'll look into it. I composed this way to emphasize the contrast between standing and not, and to include in as much of the colourful sky as possible.