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[pono]

C&C please.

Anybody else have anything to help me out? Would love to hear it!

[stevewe88]

Anybody else have anything to help me out? Would love to hear it!

Shane - I really like the first image, it really makes me want to be there and experience it. The only thing I would change is there is a bright orange part in the tree line which I feel spoils the silhouette so maybe it could be carefully cloned out.

They are both very nice shots.

All the best
Steve

[Antonio Correia]

Anybody else have anything to help me out? Would love to hear it!

I can go further Costa

1.st image - Kind of trivial photo. Everybody does sunsets. The thing is how to do sunsets to look so attractive that they are really original ? It is a very explored theme and then its is hard one. But let me drop some more lines about this.
Let's suppose that you shoot the Sun behind trees which have something peculiar like an animal with a bit of light from the Sun itself or from a supplementary source of light. Or the Sun reflected in water or behind water.

2.ed image - Nice colors indeed. However not very good composition in my opinion. I do like - and I have written here about this somewhere - that landscape images should have something in the foreground like a branch, a person, a tree.
This object can even be illuminated by a flash or just assuming the shape. The photo looks kind of bended/tilted. I am not sure.
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Suggestions - Get something very near of you and shoot it as foreground object. Shoot from bold angles: from ground level or at "guess camera" on hands stretched up up, get an old piece of tree in the foreground, use a wide angle or a strong tele. Yes, 200mm or more. It will make you see things differently. Believe me. I do have tried it myself. Be creative. Invent. Do whatever your guts tell you to do.
Have work when shooting. Not just walk, look and shoot. No. Bend your legs, crawl, whatever to take a different pic.
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Have I been too hard ? You asked for it No you didn't ask for it. I just wrote letting my harsh mind to flow.

[Tuesday Wildchild]

Taken 2008 Pourville-sur-mer, France
FinePix S5600 f/5 1/.350sec. ISO-64

[Donald]

If you crop it just above that rather ugly strip running across the frame towards the bottom and shave just a touch of the top, you get a beautiful 1:1 (square) image.

[arith]

I like the beach huts; if you crop them to paper size say 4:3 or 5:4 you will most probably lose the awkward shadow and achieve a sort of claustrophobia, in any case I would lose the shadow.

I often think that it is fine to have disembodied tree branches at edges for instance as long as it is clear where they are coming from, some of the tree is included, but unfortunately this idea doesn't generalise to all objects in-particular people.

I also think it is alright to have more than one subject as here, the cliffs, so long as something leads your eye to them as is eminently achieved by the wall. Otherwise you would have had to have been a lot closer to the first hut and use dof.

Everything considered I find it a pleasing photograph.

[Ashwin]

Anybody else have anything to help me out? Would love to hear it!

How would you like this adjustment

[arith]

This is an HDR. Only 2 exposures tho'. I was worried about the shadow details.
T'was taken In Danby forest, North Yorkshire Moors National Park. On Sunday 7th November.
Any crits will be appreciated Thank you.

You would not get me under that thing, I like this photo. Is Driffield near an Army helicopter base on the A1? I can remember driving my truck to Newcastle one evening and being buzzed by a helicopter flying backwards, frightened the life out of me

[Tuesday Wildchild]

I like the beach huts; if you crop them to paper size say 4:3 or 5:4 you will most probably lose the awkward shadow and achieve a sort of claustrophobia, in any case I would lose the shadow.

I often think that it is fine to have disembodied tree branches at edges for instance as long as it is clear where they are coming from, some of the tree is included, but unfortunately this idea doesn't generalise to all objects in-particular people.

I also think it is alright to have more than one subject as here, the cliffs, so long as something leads your eye to them as is eminently achieved by the wall. Otherwise you would have had to have been a lot closer to the first hut and use dof.

Everything considered I find it a pleasing photograph.

Don't think I've ever noticed the shadow before, thanks Steve.

Donald will give it a go thanks

[Donald]

Donald will give it a go thanks

This is what I'd do

[Wirefox]

I liked the original aspect. It is a very clean well composed image so I kept the aspect and did a little cleaning up. Hope you don't mind

[wilgk]

And Steve's version has removed the bright specks (? seagulls) and the tiny pointy thingy on the roof - which for some reason caught my eye...
an already terrific image has been thus improved I think

[Wirefox]

I'm not bad at cleaning the bathroom either

[Mick]

You would not get me under that thing, I like this photo. Is Driffield near an Army helicopter base on the A1? I can remember driving my truck to Newcastle one evening and being buzzed by a helicopter flying backwards, frightened the life out of me

I don't know about chopper bases, but, there's an Army driving school near Beverley.

Thanks for your comments.

[Donald]

I liked the original aspect. It is a very clean well composed image so I kept the aspect and did a little cleaning up.

Tuesday

So you see, there are a couple of interpretations that, hopefully, give you something to think about in terms of how you want to interpret the scenes that you capture. Neither has in any way falsified the view that, I suspect, you saw (as you wrote above - you never saw the shadow. So Steve has given you what you saw).

ps - Is Tuesday your real name. If so, it's lovely. If not, do you want to share what it is 'cause we tend to go with real names on here.

[Antonio Correia]

I liked the original aspect. It is a very clean well composed image so I kept the aspect and did a little cleaning up. Hope you don't mind

Good Steve. Good work.
The first time I saw the photo I thought the shadow of the lamp in the foreground should be removed.
But you have done a better work Steve.
You have even cleaned the people ! It is very well now.

[Vandenberg]

typical dutch

[Antonio Correia]

typical dutch

Hello Vanderberg
I see you persist. Good
Don't you think it is a little bit too tight Wouldn't it be better with a wider crop and the "house" - I don't know how to call it, sorry - a bit to the left side ?
I really don't know because the herbs on the bottom right will be coming into the frame and I wonder if that would be of any help for the image.
Thank you for posting Vanderberg

[Vandenberg]

I dont see a house on the left, if i crop it smaller (use fixed frames 900x563) it will be more in the center of the picture
and dead center is deadly, on the left is almost the same is on te right (nothing there to see)
was using my 50mm and there was not enough space between me and the windmill

[Antonio Correia]

I dont see a house on the left, if i crop it smaller (use fixed frames 900x563) it will be more in the center of the picture
and dead center is deadly, on the left is almost the same is on te right (nothing there to see)
was using my 50mm and there was not enough space between me and the windmill

I am sorry I didn't make myself understand
I was meaning the "house" a bit more to the left not to the center. Perhaps the house at 1/3