Landscapes - Archive

[Donald]

Oh I forgot to ask. How do my b/w tones look.

On the first one - Fine.
On the second one, the land (incl the bales) are fine. But, for me the sky looks a bit 'metallic'. It feels 'hard'. 'steely'. Hope this makes some sort of sense. And, I suppose, it seems to jar with the scene which doesn't suggest such a sky.

[Dave Humphries]

Steve,

I prefer the better cloud contrast of the second b&w, the first is rather flat, might benefit from some LCE (applied to sky only).

Donald,

How'd you get the cotton wool to stay up there? it always falls down when I try

EDIT: Ah, I just guessed, it's not cotton wool, but candy floss (sticky see).

Cheers,

[Donald]

How'd you get the cotton wool to stay up there?

It's easy after you've had a good bottle of earthy, country red wine along with a glorious, rustic lunch sitting outdoors by a stream in a beautiful little restaurant in a village in the backwoods of France.

Me, a Francophile? How could you tell?

[triggerhappy]

Just want to share my capture in Sensoji temple at Asakusa yesterday.



Thanks.

Mark

[ScoutR]

I have not been near a computer for a while having just returned from at trip to Kent and East Sussex. I have stacks of PP to do but I thought I would post these since they intrigued me. The fields around where we were based at St Margarets at Cliffe were full of them

Good to have you back Steve. I love every one of these shots. I prefer the colour versions though. Both of them are outstanding. I must find a place where I can get lower and get the bales against the sky.

I've gone to school again with these. I've just been working on a series of Round Bale shots myself and these put mine to shame. (what a surprise ) I plan to post a thread with a sample of my shots so I can get some C&C but these are very helpful examples.

Excellent shots as always.

Wendy

Re: Invasion of the Killer Bales

From Donald: That's a nice set of bales you got there, Steve! And Kit you're right. I keep looking at them, but have managed to resist going overboard as of yet. This is one from the Pyrenees, France in July 2009. A version of it has been on this site before, which benefitted greatly from the advice given by members on here.

I remember this one Donald. Another perfect one in my opinion, and in this case the monochrome works for me. I try to imagine it in colour and I just don't think it would work.
I haven't managed to resist going overboard. I was out on Friday and took many shots at various loctions as I was driving along in the country. You and Steve have sent me to school, but I plan to start a thread with some samples for C&C. (Hint - to everyone - I need help again)

Wendy

[Antonio Correia]

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Thank you for posting Donald Your image is very nice... I like the tone.

I think you have manipulated the background introducing some kind of blur, right ?

Now I know that those are bales not rolls

[Antonio Correia]

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It looks to me a bit too yellow... but I like the to see the hill with the bales and the "vision" a long lens give to the scene. What was it a 200 ?

Perhaps a black and white would be OK in this image...

Thank you Steve for posting

[Antonio Correia]

Good work Mark. Perhaps a little bit too red or it's just my monitor with yellows and reds

It's well composed. I like the tree in the foreground ...
I can see that you have used a rather small aperture as you have a star on the bottom right ... but excuse me: is the photo blurred or you didn't apply sufficient unsharp mask ? How long was the exposure ?

And... what is that tower back there doing here, in a such a traditional image ?
Does that "thing" belongs to the traditional building ?

Thank you for posting Mark.

[PopsPhotos]

First landscape with my newly acquired D70.



Using the 28-80 Nikon lens. Cropped for a pano look. I'm just beginning to find out what this combination can do for me.

Pops

[Peter Ryan]

A friend and I visited Craig’s Hut (a cattlemen’s hut) in the Victorian high country back in February this year. Over the weekend we hired a helicopter and went back to film it in the snow. Below are two images – one from earlier and one from the weekend.

SUMMER



WINTER

[Klickit]

Just want to share my capture in Sensoji temple at Asakusa yesterday.



Thanks.

Mark

Mark, this is lovely. I like the contrasts in it: the gold against the blue and the highly detailed structure of the temple against the natural form of the tree.

[arith]

A friend and I visited Craig’s Hut (a cattlemen’s hut) in the Victorian high country back in February this year. Over the weekend we hired a helicopter and went back to film it in the snow. Below are two images – one from earlier and one from the weekend.

SUMMER



WINTER

Hired a helicopter crikey I wished I could do that to take me to the top of Winnats Pass at Christmas and here's hoping a lot, in the snow.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winnats_Pass

The view is magnificent and I think the home would suit me, it just needs a bit of double glazing and central heating Very nice couple of pictures.

[triggerhappy]

hi antonio!

Thanks for the wonderful comment.

Good work Mark. Perhaps a little bit too red or it's just my monitor with yellows and reds

Sorry. I can't confirm if its your monitor but I guess it too red. Well, that was the real color. I think the temple's tower was kinda lighted with reddish. The people there are proud because they told us the lightings were designed by Tokyo University Fine arts.

It's well composed. I like the tree in the foreground ...

Thanks.

I can see that you have used a rather small aperture as you have a star on the bottom right ... but excuse me: is the photo blurred or you didn't apply sufficient unsharp mask ? How long was the exposure ?

I did use F/16 for 5 sec .I did sharpened it. You can view it in my flickr for bigger size=) Are referring to the leaves? It was windy that evening too. It created some ghosting (if it was the right term).

And... what is that tower back there doing here, in a such a traditional image ?
Does that "thing" belongs to the traditional building ?

Yes. It was part of the building. I think it was made of bronze.

Thank you for posting Mark.

=)

@kit

Mark, this is lovely. I like the contrasts in it: the gold against the blue and the highly detailed structure of the temple against the natural form of the tree.

Arigatou..

Mark

[Antonio Correia]

Nice Pops It looks like the landscape is twisted to the right but probably it's not so... it's the land itself with those small elevations... and the verticals are not clear enough to check if everything is vertical...

Thank you for posting.
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SUMMER
WINTER

This is quite an interesting concept. To get the same scene under different weater conditions... I am only sorry that the two images are not more "near" one from the other. Of course I mean with same composition or near by...
However it is something you can try the next time you will be there.
You should have to remember the exact place and then re-shoot.
This is something I have never been able to do. To take pictures to the same scenario, under different weather conditions and even at different clock times of the day.
Thank you for posting.

[Klickit]

@kit
Arigatou..

Mark

Anata wa kangei sa rete.

[Ollokot]

Hello to all.
I'm not long with you nor to photography,thought i'd post an image on this thread,here it is,

Pilmore is a section of Youghal Beach in County Cork Ireland,

All the best pat.

[Peter Ryan]

Hello to all.
I'm not long with you nor to photography,thought i'd post an image on this thread,here it is,

Pilmore is a section of Youghal Beach in County Cork Ireland,

All the best pat.

Hi Pat and welcome to CiC.

I like this shot but before I comment further I hope you don't mind but I played around with it a bit to increase the contrast and also to lighten and sharpen it a bit. Why. With this much light sand and sky the cameras exposure meter has been fooled into under-exposing the shot and with no real blacks or whites the image the final result is a little flat.

This shot has really nice tones in the sky and while it might be said that the horizon should be either lower to accentuate the sky or higher to show off the land I think the triangular shapes and textures in the grass sand and sea in the foreground add sufficient strength for the placement of eh horizon where it is. This is something you can play with.

Keep posting images, asking questions and reading the tutorials.

[Antonio Correia]

Thank Pat for posting here.
Let me wrote some lines about your picture.
I think it is too flat in terms of composition. There is nothing to lead our eyes to, the image looks twisted to the left and the fence (?) on the bottom right shouldn't be there.
I am sure that you can do better. I know you can. I have been in Ireland and I do know that you do have many nice places.
Places where you can compose nice beautiful images post-cards type, like mines.
If ever - ever - I am a model or some one to follow which I am not. Be careful.

OK no offense. You have probably read here how I am critical about my own shots. Merciless. I think that it is only this way we can evolute.

So, I give you a work for the week end: (I dare to ask you to) make a beautiful shot of your neighborhood with something in front, something in the foreground - not focused - to give depth to the image. Show us. A tree, a stone, a face... what ever. Oh a cross for example.

Don't be mad at me because I am so ... rude.
Come on let's improve our shots.

[Wirefox]

Talking of postcards. This is the quintessential blue birds over the white cliffs shot. I would much preferred a flying vic of Mk1 Spitfires over the white cliffs though...the sound of those Merlins

[Antonio Correia]

Nice Steve.
Excuse me Steve but isn't it a little twisted/rotated to the right side ? Just a little bit ...

Thank you for posting