"You could have got the horizon and everything else in your original picture in the frame and have the horizon 2/3rds the way down the frame by getting the camera much lower to the ground and "panning" up with the camera held in landscape format too."... not to mention getting more cloud drama as well.
Well, why did you do this to my photo??? Personally, I would NEVER touch (read: "mangle") another persons work. Beware the Dunning-Kruger effect.
Like seeing somebody else take photos of the places I ride by all the time on Hwy 49. Love to take photos on my Goldwing as I'm going along there also. Nice catch on that photo. Pretty soon everything is going to be shades of brown though.
Very cool...! Ya, anyone who travels on hwy 49 through Jackson will know right where this ranch is. BTW, everything IS brown now. The green didn't last long this year, unfortunately.
Well done. As a side note, on two trips this spring and even around home (Seattle Area) the cloud formations that I have seen have been amazing. More unique than I ever remember.
I know it's not traditional for a landscape but I'm sure if you rotated your camera into the "portrait" position/format and framed the scene/sky as below it would be a more dramatic image....
Also that lends itself to making the "rule of thirds" really work for you.
You could have got the horizon and everything else in your original picture in the frame and have the horizon 2/3rds the way down the frame by getting the camera much lower to the ground and "panning" up with the camera held in landscape format too.
Wow. No. Just no... lol. That would have cut out the sweeping line of clouds on the left hand side that is also echoed in the fence line coming back into the scene-- with the house there to keep your eye from completely leaving the frame. Going vertical would have completely destroyed the lines of the composition.