Landscapes - Archive

[arith]

It's that place again, this is 1000 x 4,500 pixels and I wished I had a wider lens.

[Antonio Correia]

Better than before under my point of view Steve. Much better.

For me the scene is well composed but still to be improved.

Don't blame the camera or the lack of equipment. Blame yourself. Work with the equipment you have and explore it till the end, knowing it by hart.

Which lens are you using Steve ? It looks like you could go closer even with this lens. Why not ?

Let those flowers almost touch your camera, focus far ahead, shoot small aperture for the scene say 4.0 or 5.6.

Please, go near that rock get it in first plane with the bridge at the end.
That rock is intriguing and attracted my attention.
I want to know more about it and it's relationship to the bridge. Please ...

There you have a mission now !

[arith]

Cheers Antonio; I missed a 0 off and should have said 10,000 x 4500. The lens is ef 28mm f2.8 and it is set at f4, this lens has minimal distortion but CA is pretty bad at wider than f4, it is also very sharp but I was thinking how nice the 20mm f2.8 would be if only I could afford it.

The rock is a sculpture of broken glass and I'm embarrassed I haven't found it attractive enough to discover if it has any significance; quite a lot of sculptures are hidden in undergrowth and some have obvious meaning such as St Modwen or the Viking Ship, this less so.

But I will have a look to see if I can discover why it is there or if there was nowhere better to put it.

[peterb533]

[arith]

Two versions; the first I took last September using a 28-80mm zoom set at 30mm f8 and is a pano HDR of 12 image files using my 10D

But it looks a lot smaller from that viewpoint than with my 28mm on a 50D and the second is a mess because the file was just too big for the paid for software and could only be stitched using free software.

That is a 50mm HDR pano of 24 images at f6.3, because the 50mm f1.8 has virtually no CA problems although it acquired some here.

I think the first one is still better and the second is so big it can't even be viewed in a browser.

[Antonio Correia]

Excellent shot ! Is this your ? I mean the castle, not the picture
Is it where your sister got married ?
I would like to have colors with more density in the hole frame.
I also wonder if a landscape crop wouldn't be better. That depends on what you got in the original pic.
Anyway this is in fact, a good option fro cropping which pleases me.


How about the recently married walking on that green field for a souvenir ? Too late
Yes, it would be just a cliché I know.

[Antonio Correia]

Two versions; the first I took last September using a 28-80mm zoom set at 30mm f8 and is a pano HDR of 12 image files using my 10D But it looks a lot smaller from that viewpoint than with my 28mm on a 50D and the second is a mess because the file was just too big for the paid for software and could only be stitched using free software. That is a 50mm HDR pano of 24 images at f6.3, because the 50mm f1.8 has virtually no CA problems although it acquired some here. I think the first one is still better and the second is so big it can't even be viewed in a browser.

I like the first and I don't like the second. Brutal.
Watch your verticals please on the first image. The image needs more room at the bottom and maybe it's a bit too yellow/orange or it's my monitor to blame.

The second one has too much grass for my taste and you missed the path witch, with it's S shape, would be nice. Sorry fellow.

But Steve why do you do stitch so often the photos ? You have wide angle lens...
Why not a simple shot maybe two ?

[peterb533]

Excellent shot ! Is this your ? I mean the castle, not the picture
Is it where your sister got married ?
I would like to have colors with more density in the hole frame.
I also wonder if a landscape crop wouldn't be better. That depends on what you got in the original pic.
Anyway this is in fact, a good option fro cropping which pleases me.


How about the recently married walking on that green field for a souvenir ? Too late
Yes, it would be just a cliché I know.

Thanks Antonio,

The castle is not mine, unfortunately, it actually belongs to Queen Elizabeth II, one of her out of town country pads. itys open to the public when she is not in residence. The original shot was portrait as there are some unsightly shrubs to the right and more of the tree to the left and lots of tourists so this was the ony option. I quite like the muted colours, more English country side to me.

Peter

[Sunray]

Hello Steve,

if the second picture wasn't an HDR I would suggest checking white balance. The building and nearly all shadows look totally blue more or less.
The other photo with the bridge on it looks a little bit strange to me. It is an nice composistion, but my eyes don't find any object where they can rest. I do not know why, but the whole picture looks uneasy. It looks blurry on my monitor as if was totally out of focus. Maybe it is resized by the browser because I do not have a wide screen monitor. What size does the the uploaded picture has?

take care
Robert

[arith]

Yes well that's right Antonio, the S was supposed to be in it but 28mm is not wide on a cropped camera. With 20mm things get a lot easier and not so many to stitch if any. Yellow orange is a usual comment with Topaz and I might take more care with those sliders. I don't think I'm doing it again until I have a wider lens though.
I'm not saying just the focal length is important, here with high contrast I thought chromatic aberration will be bad and so the 50mm which is better, the desired 20mm still has more CA problems but only half as much as my 28mm. The grass is bright don't you think?

[arith]

Hello Steve,

if the second picture wasn't an HDR I would suggest checking white balance. The building and nearly all shadows look totally blue more or less.
The other photo with the bridge on it looks a little bit strange to me. It is an nice composistion, but my eyes don't find any object where they can rest. I do not know why, but the whole picture looks uneasy. It looks blurry on my monitor as if was totally out of focus. Maybe it is resized by the browser because I do not have a wide screen monitor. What size does the the uploaded picture has?

take care
Robert

I think it is about 1640 x 1050 but is a lot bigger in real life. It is a photo not following rules, not because I don't know any. It is simplistic and no attempt is made to make anything more or less important, it is as if a robot that couldn't see went there and snapped the image, taking care not to get a good one.
I only do wide, the local cropped images are too hard and I prefer to leave them to experts, it is not as if I'm really interested in them except where they are exceptional.
and some here are.

[Antonio Correia]

Steve. You do have done a good work here in terms of perspective.
Foreground / background and so forth...

Now imagine you can do the same but with landscapes...

I got your image from here

[Sunray]

Hi Steve,

I agree to Antonio. You have got a good eye for perspective, depth of field ,geometry, etc.
Just give that bridge a try

take care
Robert

[Antonio Correia]

...Just give that bridge a try Robert

Yes, yes

[arith]

ok , I think

[arith]

And played with the bridge again.

[arith]

I didn't fancy working with giant files today and it is a bit dull anyway. cheers

[arith]

The Victorians were very generous.









I've done some better ones but I think I've posted enough for a while.

[Antonio Correia]

Steve. Hello
Let me comment in a telegraphic way, please and I begin by this one

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OK Good work. This is exactly was I was meaning regarding the use of the DOF. However, I would like to see the tower more blurred and more room around. You could have used some kind of "treatment" to enhance the sculture in terms of lighting but it is fine

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As others ahead this one is also lacking room around and mainly on the right side where I would like to see more of the pillar.

The Victorians were very generous...

Of course they were generous. They were rich as you do know better than I do according to the History of the United Kingdom which you know far better than I do
Portuguese also had an empire. Now the Chinese have an empire

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All very interesting pictures and done as I would do if I were there.
However I would be even bolder in getting the flowers right over me or right in front of the camera.
The one I like best is the second one.
The last image - but not the least - is in the trend - if I may apply the word here in this sense - of the other one I have commented before. Need more detail on that iron work

I would like to thank you for the work you have done - going to the place over and over, reading me and so forth - and forgive me if I say what I have to, in plain and quick words.
In fact, this way it is easier for me as non native English speaking person and meets also my bad character of saying things in a telegraphic and straight way.
I would like you to excuse me if I have - by any means - been less polite when my intention is not to offend. But I think you do know this by now ...

Do you know why your pictures take more time than the others to load ?

[arith]

Cheers Antonio;

Do you know why your pictures take more time than the others to load ?

I think maybe because they are between 300-500Kbyte.

I'm pleased you like the second one because it gives me something to aim for; personally I like the third but your not the only professional to say that.

It is not a problem for me to go to the same place over and over to get things right, but it is time limited and that means I expected to get things consistently right about now.