Winter Grass - An Intimate Landscape: Taking a walk through the woods at my dad's during the gold hour. Your comments and suggestions are always welcome.

kenievans Loc: Dallas

Taking a walk through the woods at my dad's during the gold hour. Your comments and suggestions are always welcome.

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CHG_CANON Loc: the Windy City

Pleasing colors and lighting. Did you try any other versions / points of view? Such just lower from this same distance with less green above the grass? Or both closer and lower where some of the nearest stocks were isolated against the background from a view looking upward?

tommystrat Loc: Bigfork, Montana

CHG_CANON wrote:

Pleasing colors and lighting. Did you try any other versions / points of view? Such just lower from this same distance with less green above the grass? Or both closer and lower where some of the nearest stocks were isolated against the background from a view looking upward?

really good advice - different points of view on the same subject can often times reveal shots we didn't see at first - different distances, DOF, angles, etc. Good on ya, mate!

Linda From Maine Loc: Yakima, Washington

Beautiful light and contrasts. I tried a couple of crops, especially thinking a vertical aspect might work, but for the distance and perspective at which you shot, I ended up preferring your composition. Re Paul's suggestions, I saw a topic where 4 photos were posted of the same subject, each one getting closer 'til the last was nearly abstract. It was very effective!

rgrenaderphoto Loc: Hollywood, CA

kenievans wrote:

Taking a walk through the woods at my dad's during the gold hour. Your comments and suggestions are always welcome.

Nice composition.

kenievans Loc: Dallas

CHG_CANON wrote:

Pleasing colors and lighting. Did you try any other versions / points of view? Such just lower from this same distance with less green above the grass? Or both closer and lower where some of the nearest stocks were isolated against the background from a view looking upward?

Thanks Paul. I do have other shots but not from a lower perspective. Some days I just can't get down.

kenievans Loc: Dallas

tommystrat wrote:

really good advice - different points of view on the same subject can often times reveal shots we didn't see at first - different distances, DOF, angles, etc. Good on ya, mate!

Thank you Tommy. I appreciate your comments.

kenievans Loc: Dallas

Linda From Maine wrote:

Beautiful light and contrasts. I tried a couple of crops, especially thinking a vertical aspect might work, but for the distance and perspective at which you shot, I ended up preferring your composition. Re Paul's suggestions, I saw a topic where 4 photos were posted of the same subject, each one getting closer 'til the last was nearly abstract. It was very effective!

Thanks Linda. See I have been paying attention.

I will go through my other photos and see what I can come up with. Maybe a tryptic.

kenievans Loc: Dallas

rgrenaderphoto wrote:

Nice composition.

Thanks!

Delderby Loc: Derby UK

kenievans wrote:

Taking a walk through the woods at my dad's during the gold hour. Your comments and suggestions are always welcome.

Being an M43 photog I am probably biased towards that format - but by cropping from the left of your pic, and a little off the right, so that the pic is closer to 4/3 format seemed to create more impact on the lovely light from the grass.

photophile Loc: Lakewood, Ohio, USA

kenievans wrote:

Taking a walk through the woods at my dad's during the gold hour. Your comments and suggestions are always welcome.

I like the touches of color in the tall grass.

camerapapi Loc: Miami, Fl.

Very nice. You had the eye to catch the right light.
It is a simple, outstanding capture.

abc1234 Loc: Elk Grove Village, Illinois

I like the side or back lighting a lot. It also makes the grass pop for the background. I would like to see more space on both sides. If you were too close to do so, than two or three shots stitched together into a panorama might work very nicely. Final note. I would like to see the grass sharper than what it is. If this were a post-Impressionist painting, I would say fine but for a photograph, I prefer sharper for this particular scene.

Thanks for posting.

treadwl Loc: South Florida

Never have a problem getting down. I can always fall. It is the getting up that is the hard part. Just saying. . .

kenievans Loc: Dallas

Delderby wrote:

Being an M43 photog I am probably biased towards that format - but by cropping from the left of your pic, and a little off the right, so that the pic is closer to 4/3 format seemed to create more impact on the lovely light from the grass.

This is one of the few shots I didn't crop but it might could benefit from a little more. I will play with it and see. Thank you for commenting.