Cades cove - Smokies
Aug 22, 2014 16:20:18 #
Aug 22, 2014 16:58:39 #
Well, you have 5 distinct planes or values, so that gives your photo nice depth. The foreground people are too small to add interest. so you just have a nice landscape photo. Nothing special IMHO.
Aug 22, 2014 17:12:21 #
It's a beautiful scenic view, Idoc. Expsosed nicely, colors so true I feel like I am their. The composition is very nice as shot, but there is another picture here if you crop the left and the bottom so that the impact of the vast landscape is greater. It brings the family more into view and emphasizes how small they are in this place.
Aug 22, 2014 17:27:15 #
djtravels wrote:
Well, you have 5 distinct planes or values, so that gives your photo nice depth. The foreground people are too small to add interest. so you just have a nice landscape photo. Nothing special IMHO.
Thanks for your comment. I thought of people as a leading line especially since they were advancing into the image. but I'll take the 'nice landscape photo'.
Aug 22, 2014 17:29:52 #
Nightski wrote:
It's a beautiful scenic view, Idoc. Expsosed nicely, colors so true I feel like I am their. The composition is very nice as shot, but there is another picture here if you crop the left and the bottom so that the impact of the vast landscape is greater. It brings the family more into view and emphasizes how small they are in this place.
Thank you Nightski. I'll try the cropping you suggest
Aug 22, 2014 17:56:17 #
iDoc wrote:
Taken last month. All critique welcome.
Welcome to the C & C section, hope you'll enjoy spending time here.
As a person who also liked to shoot big landscapes with nice skies, I can appreciate what you captured here. I agree with you about the family serving the function of leading us into the photo but I also agree with Nightski that a crop might help. To me, there is too much uninteresting space at the bottom, top and to a lesser degree, the left side. I might give up the top puffy cloud and its surrounding blue-ish sky, and let the beautiful cloud formation right above the mountains have top billing. I'm ambivalent about the left side, could go with a crop there too, or crop it to a pano style from top and bottom.
It looks like the photo suffers some from being shot in the brighter part of the day. But if you're like me you shoot when you find things to shoot, regardless of light. Your evening or early morning versions of this same scene might have been more pleasing. As is, the family (which I do like very much as a part of the composition) especially is hampered by high contrast and deep shadows. You might possibly be able to mitigate that some in post, I think it'd be worth a try.
Aug 22, 2014 18:10:09 #
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Aug 23, 2014 06:19:13 #
A lot of good points made here. You could vastly improve the image by dropping a human figure into the right foreground and have the figure looking towards the people in the middle distance. The new figure should be big and act as a right frame.
This is not difficult. Do a search for tutorials on your software. You'll find what you need.
This is not difficult. Do a search for tutorials on your software. You'll find what you need.
Aug 23, 2014 08:50:09 #
I like this image. The people give the landscape a sense of scale and a starting place for the viewer's eye to start exploring the image.
Cropping is always an interesting exercise and most images can support a myriad of options. I guess it depends on which story a photographer wants to tell. As currently cropped, this image seems to tell the story of the a vast landscape -- so the people are small in it. I think that is an interesting story so I would probably not crop it differently. I kind of like it the way it is.
Cropping is always an interesting exercise and most images can support a myriad of options. I guess it depends on which story a photographer wants to tell. As currently cropped, this image seems to tell the story of the a vast landscape -- so the people are small in it. I think that is an interesting story so I would probably not crop it differently. I kind of like it the way it is.
Aug 23, 2014 09:01:55 #
Shakey wrote:
A lot of good points made here. You could vastly improve the image by dropping a human figure into the right foreground and have the figure looking towards the people in the middle distance. The new figure should be big and act as a right frame.
This is not difficult. Do a search for tutorials on your software. You'll find what you need.
This is not difficult. Do a search for tutorials on your software. You'll find what you need.
Thank you for your suggestion. I certainly had not thought of that approach and will look into it.
Aug 23, 2014 09:09:20 #
jgordon wrote:
I like this image. The people give the landscape ... (show quote)
Thank you for your comment. Your thinking parallels mine. I hated to crop away that patch of blue on sky the left and also diminish the expansive feeling I was trying to portray.
Aug 23, 2014 09:53:18 #
iDoc wrote:
Thank you for your comment. Your thinking parallels mine. I hated to crop away that patch of blue on sky the left and also diminish the expansive feeling I was trying to portray.
You might also try changing your aspect ratio to 16:9 when you crop so it is more panoramic, supporting your idea. Put the horizon on the upper thirds line.
You might want to post this in the Post Processing forum so you can see what people are suggesting.
Aug 23, 2014 10:50:29 #
The vast openness appeals to me and the people give it scale. They're heading out on an adventure, with the position of the last person's arms giving me a sense of motion.
It's a pleasing scenic shot, though I would love a different time of day :)
(Re your reply to MinnieV - it was because you wrote your remarks in the middle of hers, rather than scrolling down below the end-quote formatting. For future, note that you have an hour to make changes to anything you write on UHH. I often edit my own remarks :) )
It's a pleasing scenic shot, though I would love a different time of day :)
(Re your reply to MinnieV - it was because you wrote your remarks in the middle of hers, rather than scrolling down below the end-quote formatting. For future, note that you have an hour to make changes to anything you write on UHH. I often edit my own remarks :) )
Aug 23, 2014 13:14:05 #
MtnMan wrote:
You might also try changing your aspect ratio to 16:9 when you crop so it is more panoramic, supporting your idea. Put the horizon on the upper thirds line.
You might want to post this in the Post Processing forum so you can see what people are suggesting.
You might want to post this in the Post Processing forum so you can see what people are suggesting.
Thanks for your comments and suggestions. Will do.
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