randomeyes Loc: wilds of b.c. canada

If any of you have seen the movie "Fargo" you will remember the sweeping vistas, with mainly sky and very little land in the shot. Does a shot like this work?

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rmalarz Loc: Tempe, Arizona

It does. However, "Fargo" had a lot more white in those sweeping vistas.
--Bob

randomeyes Loc: wilds of b.c. canada

Quite true. I will revisit this area in winter, which will be in about 3 months!!

Dave Chinn

Love Fargo, movie and the TV series. You have an interesting, beautiful capture. However, I'll have to agree with Bob. To be more realistic with Fargo more white is needed. Oh, what a cold place it must be. Look forward to an updated version if there is to be.
Dave

Uuglypher Loc: South Dakota (East River)

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Reality check! Reality check!

Yes, randomeyes, I'd say that shot works well !

Fargo, North Dakota is a nice, clean, upper mid-west northern plaines city. Good shopping, good restaurants...in fact, when we here in Estelline, SD are up for a really excellent Indian dinner and/or a Unitarian Universalist service on a Sunday it's only a 2 hour drive from home to "Taste of India" on W. 45 th St...( or is it N 45th...I forget...I just know where to park!).
It has typical mid-continent weather...hot in summer (I've seen 98°F the day after they claimed it had been 102°) and it's cold and white in winter ...just like any other mid-continent, mid-latitude city. It's only a little more than half-way to the North Pole from the Equator. Where we live here in SD it's almost smack-dab on 45° N latitude. Like other cities at that latitude across the continent they don't see winter as a hardship; it comes in season and leaves the same way...just like Summer. The roads are well maintained, sun dogs are as common in winter as sweat is in summer... and winter can be as beautiful as summer.
And the denizens of Fargo are more than a little bemused at the reputation that besets their region thanks to a "cult movie" (albeit a well-produced, enjoyable one) and a one-trick pony TV series. And I've never met anyone in Fargo bearing the slightest likeness to William Macy! And on the streets of Fargo one is no more likely to hear "Yah,sure" or "Uff da" than in the Twin Cities of Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN, or Madison, WI, or Des Moines, IA. The norther plaines states have been welcoming to immigration from diverse locales...middle east (Syria), Africa (Somalia) and several eastern european countries and central American countries. Scandinavians, Germans, Scots, Dutch, French, English, Irish, Czeck, Bohemian were the immigrants of yester years. And members of the First Nations (Lakota, Dakota, Blackfoot, Ojibway, Arikara are still among us.

So those who like to spread folk lore about "Fargo", I simply urge y'all to keep " flying over" and chuckling without landing; life in the northern plaines is good...and we like t'keep it that way! Or, if of an open, welcoming nature, by all means land and walk among us. You'll find many of a like mind. And bring your gear; there are photo-ops year-round!

Jus' sayin'.......

Dave

randomeyes Loc: wilds of b.c. canada

Thanks for the info Dave. The closest we have to a "Fargo" type landscape in Canada is Saskatchewan. The residents of that beautiful Province refer to their climate as 11 months of winter and one month of bad snowshoeing weather.

John N Loc: HP14 3QF Stokenchurch, UK

Depends on what you are trying to achieve. Never having seen Fargo, (seen Norfolk, Lincolnshire in the U.K. - possibly our biggest 'big skies' venue) I think I'd try to recover some of that curvature on the horizon. I might be requesting the impossible here but would be possible to compress the sky so as to retain all of the colour without cropping it so that you present more of a letterbox profile? If you can, it's something that's beyond me, but I get the feeling it probably is.

JD750 Loc: SoCal

It works and for me it conveys that vast big sky feeling one gets when out on the prairie.