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Jan 7, 2023 12:46:05   #
ORpilot Loc: Prineville, Or
 
revised..For portrate, it needed to be shot differently. This is the best I could do with your original photo. I would have moved the road edge to the right corner of the frame. Included more rock fence on the left and not cut off the tree tops. But not had so much sky. Maybe lowered my perspective so that the road foreground was leading more. But That's just me. Going from Landscape to Portrait is more than just turning the camera vertical.



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Jan 7, 2023 14:33:58   #
jack schade Loc: La Pine Oregon
 
landscape.

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Jan 7, 2023 14:41:53   #
HRoss Loc: Longmont, CO
 
Wanderer2 wrote:
I prefer the landscape version. Cropping out the shadow in the extreme foreground might make it better to my eye.


I agree with this comment, and for me I'd level the the "horizon."

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Jan 7, 2023 14:47:05   #
rfarris1 Loc: Maryland, USA
 
I prefer the portrait although the composition is meh. What would really set it off if there were a person walking in the distance so the the road and rock walls lead to the person. Just a thought

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Jan 7, 2023 14:50:58   #
TheShoe Loc: Lacey, WA
 
jimvanells wrote:
IMHO, the landscape has more of sense of place. The portrait shows just a gravel road into the woods.


Agree

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Jan 7, 2023 15:32:19   #
petrochemist Loc: UK
 
If there was a person on a bike in the foreground the portrait version might be better, but otherwise the landscape wins hands down

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Jan 7, 2023 15:38:13   #
joecichjr Loc: Chicago S. Suburbs, Illinois, USA
 
ORpilot wrote:
revised..For portrate, it needed to be shot differently. This is the best I could do with your original photo. I would have moved the road edge to the right corner of the frame. Included more rock fence on the left and not cut off the tree tops. But not had so much sky. Maybe lowered my perspective so that the road foreground was leading more. But That's just me. Going from Landscape to Portrait is more than just turning the camera vertical.


I love it the way it sits here 💚💙💚💙💚

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Jan 7, 2023 15:56:43   #
OldSchool-WI Loc: Brandon, Wisconsin 53919
 
camerapapi wrote:
Landscapes look better in the square format. At times a vertical is better, especially with vertical subjects but that is mostly used for those shots where a part of the landscape reveals what the photographer really wants to show to the viewer. It is called "the intimate landscape" in photography.
I like the original although my tendency is to warm the image somewhat. The intense sunlight during the summer months has lots of UV light casting a bluish tint to the images and your image is no exception. If you prefer cool images that is a different story.

I agree with the comments that the image looks better with the sky as represented in the original image. A rule of composition is to not place the horizon in the center, a rule that is broken often, in many cases making the image look better depending on the subject. If the OP is satisfied with his image I have nothing against it, we are all different.
Landscapes look better in the square format. At ti... (show quote)


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Composition should not be a set of rules, although rules might help to get to the starting point. But the composition should maximize interest and complexity, but still provide thematic focus. Color is part of composition as anything which moves the eye focus is composition. Whether in graphics or fiction writing or sound music---it is all with the same goals, that of heightening the artistic experience. Therefore we come back to common sense an a type of eye or ear and then mental mechanics.-----------ew

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Jan 7, 2023 17:09:20   #
Delderby Loc: Derby UK
 
camerapapi wrote:
Landscapes look better in the square format. At times a vertical is better, especially with vertical subjects but that is mostly used for those shots where a part of the landscape reveals what the photographer really wants to show to the viewer. It is called "the intimate landscape" in photography.
I like the original although my tendency is to warm the image somewhat. The intense sunlight during the summer months has lots of UV light casting a bluish tint to the images and your image is no exception. If you prefer cool images that is a different story.

I agree with the comments that the image looks better with the sky as represented in the original image. A rule of composition is to not place the horizon in the center, a rule that is broken often, in many cases making the image look better depending on the subject. If the OP is satisfied with his image I have nothing against it, we are all different.
Landscapes look better in the square format. At ti... (show quote)


Yes - and I also use 4/3 format for landscapes.

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Jan 7, 2023 17:11:22   #
Rich 1
 
I agree Landscape with lower shadow cropped out.

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Jan 7, 2023 18:39:14   #
OldSchool-WI Loc: Brandon, Wisconsin 53919
 
______________________(reply to aspect and crop questions)

Here is an example of what cropping and an eye to composition can do to a photo.l I have posted the full image of nothing more than a dead spruce tree and some vine leaves. The overall photo has a number of focal points but no continuity of thought or composition.

Now hit your enlargement plus (+) button and keep enlarging until you have only the leaves and the flower part in the photo and see what composition does. (attached photo)


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Jan 7, 2023 19:06:23   #
OldSchool-WI Loc: Brandon, Wisconsin 53919
 
OldSchool-WI wrote:
______________________(reply to aspect and crop questions)

Here is an example of what cropping and an eye to composition can do to a photo.l I have posted the full image of nothing more than a dead spruce tree and some vine leaves. The overall photo has a number of focal points but no continuity of thought or composition.

Now hit your enlargement plus (+) button and keep enlarging until you have only the leaves and the flower part in the photo and see what composition does. (attached photo)
______________________(reply to aspect and crop qu... (show quote)


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My cropped and the original photos shows that you can make an interesting photo practically anywhere and about practically anything. The original here was taken out a window while testing equipment new to me. I was just testing focus on the knots in the dead tree.-----------------ew

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Jan 7, 2023 20:53:47   #
Moondoggie Loc: Southern California
 
I also agree with Jim. Landscape!

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Jan 7, 2023 21:28:18   #
zug55 Loc: Naivasha, Kenya, and Austin, Texas
 
Yesterday, I sent this from my cell phone during a long layover at Amsterdam airport:

"Landscape. First, level the image. Crop it on the left--this will put the focus on the curvature of the road. Also crop it on top--you know, the two-thirds thing--and maybe the bottom a little too."

I am attaching a version of what I had in mind.



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Jan 8, 2023 03:23:28   #
mtcoothaman Loc: Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
 
Landscape for me.

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