Sorry, I was in the midst of archiving a bunch of photo’s from my travels and trying to sort out a FB page and I have about 6 copies of every picture floating around. I’ve only started watermarking recently, but I can see this is not the place for it.
Cheer’s and I apologise for the comp, but it’s less of a talent more of a popularity thing and I’m already 1800 votes shy. In this day and age its all about shameless self promotion, via twitter/FB/Flickr/Pinterest. Something about hating games and players? :)
Looking at the website linked he seems to be trying to become a one stop shop for photographers. Looking for people all over the country he can send out to do work while I’m sure taking a generous cut. The idea seems good but I’m not sure how well it will be executed. If I was going for something like that I’d rather it be some sort of cooperative than a top down arrangement.
You say the image is straight from the camera? So unedited? Did you shoot in raw, if so you can probably recover quite a bit of the detail in PP.
Failing that a Graduated ND filter over the sky would have evened out the exposure and revealed the sky you say was spectacular. I really like the ethereal quality of the foreground, maybe try a tighter crop.
Cheer’s, there was some editing done to remove a poorly placed gate, and to brighten the shot up some, but the light was lovely with breaking sunlight coming through the clouds in waves, I was really happy I found this off the beaten path.
Strange you should say that I actually shot a panorama of the scene that night. I’m not sure how well it came out, I find panoramas get very squeezed, and the stitching software isn’t always the best.
There’s probably a great composition there – just a bit dark to make out.
Your brother has an estate?
It’s a housing estate :) There was supposed to be a hotel built where I took this picture but thankfully that project is on hold. I have a bunch of different images from this shoot, I picked that one mostly out of gut instinct and I liked the silhouette of the broken fence trailing into the foreground.
Believe it or not that was my second attempt, I removed my first one because it was too dark.. I tend to overuse blacks when I edit, maybe it’s my “style” :)
I’ll have another look and attempt to brighten it up.