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Croaghnameal
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A few recent ones from Croaghnameal – a foothill of the Bluestacks in South Donegal close to the Tyrone border.
I think the second shot is a beautiful image. The others I find myself looking for something to catch my eye which unfortunately there isn’t.
Well done!Hi Aidy.
You’ve picked a subject that I found to be quiet difficult to capture successfully, namely, mountain ranges. I found that when you’re on the top, it’s difficult to find a foreground object to give a sense of scale to the scene & give the viewer something to catch their eye and lead them into the overall scene.
In #2, you have achieved this & it works very well. In #1, there is nothing to hold my attention and the scene looks “flat”, this is another problem faced by photographers when shooting on the top of ranges. Also, the “natural scattering” of the rocks makes the image too busy & doesn’t give an area for the viewers eye to rest. Maybe a different focal lenght lens could have helped here.
In #3, my eye is “dragged” to the wind turbines at the right edge of the scene. Also, the image has a lot of “dead ground” between the foreground & background on RHS, which makes the foreground rocks too dominant IMO.
I love the light in #4, but again, I find that the foreground lets the shot down due to the foliage being too dark & the lack of an object in the foreground to give scale. Otherwise, I think this hasthe makings of a great shot.
I should add, I am not a landscape photographer & therefore, not the best person to give advice on these. I am just giving suggestions & don’t want you feeling that I am being too critical in my comments. These are just issues that I faced when attempting to photograph some local mountains recently (which I must get back to soon) :) . Well done.Not at all, very constructive criticism Miki g, glad of the comments. Cheers
composition wise #2 is the pick of the bunch here. well done
purely because of the foreground detail and the interest it creates.ideally these sort of scenes need to be viewed BIG to see the detail on the horizon.
The images are too dark also, what you could do the next time
is make two exposures per scene, one for the sky and one for the ground
and merge the 2 while processing.
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