Orchard nursery, winter: Any interest in this shot? How would you crop, if at all? I'd love to have your ideas of what to feature. Please feel free to edit and post your suggestions.

Linda From Maine Loc: Yakima, Washington

Any interest in this shot? How would you crop, if at all? I'd love to have your ideas of what to feature. Please feel free to edit and post your suggestions.

Thanks much!

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Frank2013 Loc: San Antonio, TX. & Milwaukee, WI.

Wished I could tell you why....just seemed to look right to me.

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Linda From Maine Loc: Yakima, Washington

Frank2013 wrote:

Wished I could tell you why....just seemed to look right to me.

Thank you, Frank :)

GWR100 Loc: England

Now you've found a very interesting point of view.-- The unruly plants in the foreground, the verticals racing through to the building and the horizontal lines cross the top all hang in together, and for some reason the wind turbine doesn't disturb the flow of the picture, -- add that to really nice subtle processing it all works nicely--- good stuff Linda,

Geoff

Linda From Maine wrote:

Any interest in this shot? How would you crop, if at all? I'd love to have your ideas of what to feature. Please feel free to edit and post your suggestions.

Thanks much!

Linda From Maine Loc: Yakima, Washington

GWR100 wrote:

Now you've found a very interesting point of view.-- The unruly plants in the foreground, the verticals racing through to the building and the horizontal lines cross the top all hang in together, and for some reason the wind turbine doesn't disturb the flow of the picture, -- add that to really nice subtle processing it all works nicely--- good stuff Linda,

Geoff

Thanks so much, Geoff! I'm very pleased you found the scene interesting.

The wind machine is used to move the air in spring freezes, to help protect blossoms. They are very common in the orchards - and another of the strictly functional elements that I find quite beautiful :)

(Wind "turbines" here are different: used to generate electricity and at least 10 times larger.)

dansmith Loc: Southwest Alberta Canada

Linda From Maine wrote:

Any interest in this shot? How would you crop, if at all? I'd love to have your ideas of what to feature. Please feel free to edit and post your suggestions.

Thanks much!

In this one I would like to keep all the elements but find that the lighting in the back of the orchard and on the hill a bit flat and the symmetry adds to the flatness. I cropped the right putting the fan on the left vertical third and brightened up the barn roof and hillside. Hope this de-emphasized the overhead wires a bit, not a big deal but they do interfere with the wintery sky and cloning them out would result in moderate brain damage.

Like your shot as posted by the way..

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Linda From Maine Loc: Yakima, Washington

Thanks so much, Dan! I like what you did - particularly the roof - and your discussion was very helpful.

I suspected I'd have incurred much more than "moderate" brain damage had I gone anywhere near those wires with a clone tool :)

dansmith wrote:

In this one I would like to keep all the elements but find that the lighting in the back of the orchard and on the hill a bit flat and the symmetry adds to the flatness. I cropped the right putting the fan on the left vertical third and brightened up the barn roof and hillside. Hope this de-emphasized the overhead wires a bit, not a big deal but they do interfere with the wintery sky and cloning them out would result in moderate brain damage.

Like your shot as posted by the way..

Uuglypher Loc: South Dakota (East River)

Frank2013 wrote:

Wished I could tell you why....just seemed to look right to me.

The fine twigs among the tops of all the trees obscure the horizon...and the vanishing point!
I'd "work" the scene with both a higher and a lower camera position.

Dave

R.G. Loc: Scotland

Dave must have read my mind. I tried a vertical stretch in an attempt to get a higher perspective. The scene as a whole has a channelling effect on the eye, and I thought the eye's destination needed a bit of brightening. In fact I thought the dark nooks and crannies were lowering the tone of the shot so I brightened the dark corners. That and smoothing the sky and losing the purple tint.

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Linda From Maine Loc: Yakima, Washington

Uuglypher wrote:

The fine twigs among the tops of all the trees obscure the horizon...and the vanishing point!
I'd "work" the scene with both a higher and a lower camera position.

Dave

Thank you, Dave!

Linda From Maine Loc: Yakima, Washington

R.G. wrote:

Dave must have read my mind. I tried a vertical stretch in an attempt to get a higher perspective. The scene as a whole has a channelling effect on the eye, and I thought the eye's destination needed a bit of brightening. In fact I thought the dark nooks and crannies were lowering the tone of the shot so I brightened the dark corners. That and smoothing the sky and losing the purple tint.

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Thanks so much, R.G. Great to have a visual to understand yours and Dave's viewpoints. I miss my wind machine, though :)

R.G. Loc: Scotland

Linda From Maine wrote:

....I miss my wind machine, though :)

Some things add to the impression that a shot has been well thought out and planned. The wind generator, on the other hand, to my eye looks like an unwanted element or even a mistake. But I don't have your familiarity with the scene.

Linda From Maine Loc: Yakima, Washington

R.G. wrote:

Some things add to the impression that a shot has been well thought out and planned. The wind generator, on the other hand, to my eye looks like an unwanted element or even a mistake. But I don't have your familiarity with the scene.

Thanks, R.G.

Good to be reminded how different our responses can be, based on knowledge of subject or location.

Billyspad Loc: The Philippines

If this is what you have around you and you wanna shoot rural then OK I can go with that. You see it in its different seasons so maybe look at it and can see interest in the scene. To the casual onlooker its like yea well is this it?
So I have tried to introduce some impact first of all. Something to make people stop and look. So a grungy black and white and quite severe vignette. Cropped severely as there was too much picture showing nothing. The windmill thing just caught the eye and stopped the eye wandering. Composition with the good ol' leading lines in the center led just to a shed so still got our shed but off center now.
Spent a good few hours thinking on this one and must admit Billy likes the result. Think it has a touch of the wow factor almost.
Totally different look I know but gal that countryside around you is pretty awful!

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Linda From Maine Loc: Yakima, Washington

Billy, I really like the idea of b&w. Thanks for your viewpoint!