10-11-2011, 01:05 AM
[quote name='IanCD' timestamp='1318273474' post='12265']
Hi Pinhole,
Thanks for this feedback, much appreciated.
Can I ask you for a bit more advice?
As you say, many of the compositions look 'squeezed' vertically - the result of me cropping out the sun which I'd included in the original pictures.
Here's No.2 with the horizon angle corrected, and including the sun.
Where would you crop this? Do you think it works with the sun included, or better to crop it out?
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Thanks again...
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Ian
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Hi Ian,
Thanks for the reply- hope my input is useful ...
I think the sun should be in the crop, because there aren't many alternatives for leaving it out - the whole thing would either shift to the left or the horizon would be too low...
You might want to try cropping away the bottom 1/5th of the image (that is, get rid of the shingle on the lower right corner): this leaves you with a graphically 'clean' image of just rocks and water, which you can either leave as a 'cinemascope' wide image, or then experiment with cropping away either from the left or the right.
The shingle in the foreground is a bit troublesome, because it doesn't have a 'story to tell' (in my opinion). It might have been better in this case to use a larger aperture and have the shingle in focus, gradually trailing off to a blurred figure by the water (or vice-versa). The aperture can play an important role - together with your framing - in determining where the viewer's eye is drawn in the shot (and we are not always looking at the 'in focus' parts of a photo).
As for the exposure, my instincts would tell me to not go overboard with the contrast (the image is contrasty enough), try to recover some colour and highlights, and 'warm up' the image to match the time of day (a sunset shouldn't feel 'cold').
Hope my comments are helpful!
Regards,
Pinhole
Hi Pinhole,
Thanks for this feedback, much appreciated.
Can I ask you for a bit more advice?
As you say, many of the compositions look 'squeezed' vertically - the result of me cropping out the sun which I'd included in the original pictures.
Here's No.2 with the horizon angle corrected, and including the sun.
Where would you crop this? Do you think it works with the sun included, or better to crop it out?
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Thanks again...
Time for a weekend Landscape Photography workshop, I think...! <img src='http://forum.photozone.de/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='
' />Ian
[/quote]
Hi Ian,
Thanks for the reply- hope my input is useful ...
I think the sun should be in the crop, because there aren't many alternatives for leaving it out - the whole thing would either shift to the left or the horizon would be too low...
You might want to try cropping away the bottom 1/5th of the image (that is, get rid of the shingle on the lower right corner): this leaves you with a graphically 'clean' image of just rocks and water, which you can either leave as a 'cinemascope' wide image, or then experiment with cropping away either from the left or the right.
The shingle in the foreground is a bit troublesome, because it doesn't have a 'story to tell' (in my opinion). It might have been better in this case to use a larger aperture and have the shingle in focus, gradually trailing off to a blurred figure by the water (or vice-versa). The aperture can play an important role - together with your framing - in determining where the viewer's eye is drawn in the shot (and we are not always looking at the 'in focus' parts of a photo).
As for the exposure, my instincts would tell me to not go overboard with the contrast (the image is contrasty enough), try to recover some colour and highlights, and 'warm up' the image to match the time of day (a sunset shouldn't feel 'cold').
Hope my comments are helpful!
Regards,
Pinhole