Shannon at Atlone 4th Feb 14

[peterako]

February 4, 2014 at 3:26 pm

Hi all,

Would appreciate your comments/critique of this. Would not consider landscape my ‘strength’ but want to improve.

Canon 40D, 17-85mm IS, F13, 1/160s

Apparently there are floods predicted for tonight/tomorrow.

Thanks in advance,
Peter

[aoluain]

February 5, 2014 at 11:02 am

i think th field of vies is too wide

the interesting features in the scene are the birds, tree and bench.

I would crop out the left side to make a square which would improve the composition

[peterako]

February 5, 2014 at 11:18 am

Many thanks for that aoluain!

‘Instinctively’ that makes sense. Will try and crop and upload later.

Here we go:

Peter

[aoluain]

February 7, 2014 at 8:26 pm

Hmmm thats not quite what i was thinking, can i try?

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[peterako]

February 8, 2014 at 12:34 pm

Would be delighted!

I am definitely WEAK at framing shots (especially group and landscape) so I would consider it valuable guidance if you did.
(I have the shot at much higher resolution than the one I posted. If you need that to get the desired result just let me know)

Thanks in advance,
Peter

[aoluain]

February 10, 2014 at 7:50 am

Ah cool peter, i’ll give it a go later on!

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[aoluain]

February 10, 2014 at 10:17 am

Here ya go >

this is just my take on the image.

[peterako]

February 11, 2014 at 11:38 am

Thanks aoluain,

Your crop does look a better picture.
It also tells me to try and frame the original shot a LOT better next time :)

I had struggled to try and keep as much of the tree, bench and gulls in the frame when cropping but had been using a 6×4 crop so kept losing what I wanted to keep.

(Not as much of the interesting stuff in this shot)

I was probably trying to capture too much in one shot. MUST THINK HARDER :)

Thank you agaun aoluain!
Peter

[aoluain]

February 12, 2014 at 7:41 am

No probs, the above looks good too!
less is more sometimes

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