Nine Image Landscape Stack: At least I believe its a landscape. Or would it be more of an expanded intimate landscape? Or possibly its just a pile of bull sh...............?

Cany143 Loc: SE Utah

At least I believe its a landscape. Or would it be more of an expanded intimate landscape? Or possibly its just a pile of bull sh...............? Comments/critiques welcome.

Nine images... Nikon D610, AF Nikkor 24-120mm @42mm... 1/100th @ f/16... ISO 100... manual exposure, manual focus, hand held.

Location: 1/4 mile (or so) from the place I like to go whenever there's a Solstice.

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RichardTaylor Loc: Sydney, Australia

It works very well for me.

NJFrank Loc: New Jersey

You did well with focus stacking. I just wish you didn’t include that pile of whatever in the foreground. I found my eyes continuing going back to it. I guess because I kept trying to figure out what it could be.

UTMike Loc: South Jordan, UT

Proof that even with a great landscape, the crap in the foreground can be distracting - LOL.

rgrenaderphoto Loc: Hollywood, CA

Cany143 wrote:

At least I believe its a landscape. Or would it be more of an expanded intimate landscape? Or possibly its just a pile of bull sh...............? Comments/critiques welcome.

Nine images... Nikon D610, AF Nikkor 24-120mm @42mm... 1/100th @ f/16... ISO 100... manual exposure, manual focus, hand held.

Location: 1/4 mile (or so) from the place I like to go whenever there's a Solstice.

land·scape /ˈlan(d)ˌskāp/ noun 1.all the visible features of an area of countryside or land, often considered in terms of their aesthetic appeal.

verb 1. make (a piece of land) more attractive by altering the existing design, adding ornamental features, and planting trees and shrubs.

Well Cany 'ol buddy, based on the Dictionary of the Internet, I do believe you've hit on both accounts. And, certainly, the uh "organic addition" in the foreground meets the definition of landscape as a verb, adding ornamental features. Over the years, I've stepped in, and walked around a lot of those ornamental features.

In this instance, your image's foreground, midground and distance bring the viewer's eyes out to take in the big picture rather than in with some obscuring foreground object, "where your (are) making an image that would convey back the sense of wonder and amazement that you felt so profoundly standing there." - quote modified from post in Light & Land Blog.

Cany143 Loc: SE Utah

UTMike wrote:

Proof that even with a great landscape, the crap in the foreground can be distracting - LOL.

Womp - womp - wahhhh!

Reality is a pretty good place to start, seems to me. And 'beauty' --or people's conception of it-- is strangely conditional.

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

Cany143 Loc: SE Utah

rgrenaderphoto wrote:

....foreground, midground and distance bring the viewer's eyes out to take in the big picture rather than in....

Oh, NOES! Hope nothing in the image brings anyone's eyes out! Don't know much about this Internet Dictionary thing of which you speak (the profs sort of insisted we quote from the OED], but there is such a thing as being 'gimlet-eyed.'

AndyH Loc: Massachusetts and New Hampshire

Cany143 wrote:

Womp - womp - wahhhh!

Reality is a pretty good place to start, seems to me. And 'beauty' --or people's conception of it-- is strangely conditional.

Ain't that the truth!
Andy

Steve DeMott Loc: St. Louis, Missouri (Oakville area)

UTMike wrote:

Proof that even with a great landscape, the crap in the foreground can be distracting - LOL.

I don't care what you say, That's funny

Steve DeMott Loc: St. Louis, Missouri (Oakville area)

I agree with NJFrank. Stacking was well done. I cropped the image just above the pile and, for me, made a more interesting photo.

Wilderness Images Loc: Apache Junction, AZ.

Cany143 wrote:

At least I believe its a landscape. Or would it be more of an expanded intimate landscape? Or possibly its just a pile of bull sh...............? Comments/critiques welcome.

Nine images... Nikon D610, AF Nikkor 24-120mm @42mm... 1/100th @ f/16... ISO 100... manual exposure, manual focus, hand held.

Location: 1/4 mile (or so) from the place I like to go whenever there's a Solstice.

Nice photo Cany, but I think you need something in-between for the eyes to focus on and take away from the poo in the near foreground. I usually get to shot #5 in a stacking series and find that the clouds have moved to much or a gust of wind moves the grass = ruined focus stack.

Jack

treadwl Loc: South Florida

LOVE the photo. Humor is needed these days and this is perfect.

You must have much steadier hands than me. I seem to be having trouble with focus stacking even on the tripod.
I'm really impressed.

Rich1939 Loc: Pike County Penna.

NJFrank wrote:

You did well with focus stacking. I just wish you didn’t include that pile of whatever in the foreground. I found my eyes continuing going back to it. I guess because I kept trying to figure out what it could be.

"Cow Patty"

camerapapi Loc: Miami, Fl.

It is a landscape. It is also a simple, well planned image with excellent visual design and exposure.