JBuckley

By the way, I love shooting the Mammoth and Virginia Lakes area, as well.

Go a little north and check out Bodie (ghost town), and Virginia City for some
wonderful subjects to capture. I'm sure you have been there, but it's so great.
I need to get back up there (since Covid hit). Virginia City is great in the early
winter periods, before the snows get to the Sierras.

Chip Rock Loc: Southern New Jersey

I found camerapapi response/cropping the best IMHO, you need to decide what your subject is before taking a photo and then place in the viewfinder using the rule of thirds.

All of our work is very subjective, I've attended photo criiques where there have been VAST differences of opinions. In the end try suggestions if you don't like them continue what you've been doing.

Boots Brown Loc: Phoenix AZ

#2,4,5,6 ?subject not really apparent. Like #9 best
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linda lagace

Thank you for all of your suggestio ns. Made me realuze I need to take more time and decide what I actually find compelling to say and then shoot it. Also made me realize that maybe I shouldn't spend too much time editing those pics taken on a sightseeing trip where someone else is driving and waiting and asking me to get shot of that barn or mountain . And maybe spend more time planning my shots. It is still hard sometimes when something is overwhelmingly beautiful to decide what it that really attracts me. But your comments have helped nudge me in that direction. I appreciate the time you took to comment

williejoha

On picture #1 I would reframe to eliminate the tree trunk on the right edge, very distracting. On # 8 I would move a little left to remove the partial railing, also distracting. JMTC
WJH

Waterhouse Stops Loc: So. California

I like #1 and #6. Number 1 is fine composition but color of distant trees is washed out. Would a UV filter help?
Number 6 draws me into the woods on the way to the distant mountain. Similar to an Ansel Adams scene. Color is good. I was almost born in the Sierras - yes, really! - and share your love for the experience there.

scallihan Loc: Tigard, OR

IMHO: #1 Nice, horse leading into the frame gives it focal point, but the foreground road is distracting. I would crop it out.

2, 3, 4, 7, 9 Sort of mundane, no focal point of interest. Is there something to see here?

5, 6. Too busy with no focal point of interest.

8. The best. Nice shot. Great composition, point of interest, good lighting. A wall hanger!

LeeK Loc: Washington State

I actually like #8 the best. I think because of the contrasts thirds. Of the to horde pictures, I prefer #1 but I also think the cropping done by camerapapi is the most attractive composition for the horse. It keeps the rule of thirds but also is easier to focus on the horse (if that's what you were going for)

linda lagace

unstaged found shots are hard sometimes you have to move yourself to places you just cant get to, to get what you really want to concentrate on

linda lagace

Now I am anxious to go back, change my positions , my in field cropping.
I was fascinated by the geological structure. the strata that was crumpled and bent .....but didn't quite know on what to focus. next time I think I will take a series of shots a different focal lengths and from various positions until I see in the camera what I am seeing in my mind's eye.
I may also play with the colors a bit but I am always reluctant to oversaturate from what I see in the field . I want to keep that as accurate as what I see but I probably could work harder with contrast and clarity and dehaze and from a tutorial some had suggested by Nigel, I now know I can do a selective editing of the contrast clarity and dehaze. I should have known this!

Everyone's suggestions really have got me to thinking.
My tamron 150-600 comes back tomorrow and so I will get a chance to try some of these ideas with this longer range lens