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Wednesday Landscapes, 5 May 2021


Leslie Reid

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You are invited to upload one or more of your landscape photos and, if you’d like, to accompany your image with some commentary: challenges you faced in making the image? your intent for the image? settings? post-processing decisions? why you did what you did? the place and time? or an aspect you’d like feedback on? And please feel free to ask questions of others who have posted images or to join the discussion. If you don’t feel like using words, that’s OK too—unaccompanied images (or unaccompanied words, for that matter) are also very much welcomed. As for the technicalities, the usual forum guidelines apply: files < 1 MB; image size <1000 px maximum dimension.

 

Here’s a rather odd forest on New Zealand’s North Island. I think its components represent four continents, with the only indigenous vegetation being the shrubby yellow-green patch to the left of the Monterey pine. (scanned Kodachrome transparency)

 

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I always try to learn something of the history and geology of places I visit. Unfortunately it's often after the fact. This is a less expansive view of Ben Bulben in NW Ireland. The geology is striking, and the history no less so. In 1922, six IRA soldiers were cornered and killed, after surrendering, on its slopes. The countryside of Ireland is beautiful, but poses several challenges to (some) photographers. Country roads are bordered by 6' hedges, with few breaks. The sky is generally cloudy (in March), so occasional bright patches, as in this photo, are welcome. Finally, at my age I look for spots within a few hundred feet of the car. That given, Ireland does not disappoint.

 

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Wonderful image! I'd crop it to eliminate most of the empty sky on top.

 

I agree that there is too much blank sky, although I had already cropped some of the sky out. I think that it now looks better as a sem-panoramic. Maintaining the same aspect ratio cuts out too much of the mountain on the left and/or fog on the right for my taste. I took the photo just this morning and am still playing with composition.

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Rural road in fog, eastern Idaho

I prefer the first one as well. They're quite different to me. With more of the sky cropped out, it's got a heavier feel, perhaps bordering on oppressive. The first one allows for drama. The cropped version forces it.

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Why?

Too much empty space on top. Looking at both again, I am inclined to crop a little less than what Glenn did - just take a little more than half off the top of the image. Why have almost 1/4 of the image filled with nothing? I would rather like to see a bit more of the foreground.

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Why have almost 1/4 of the image filled with nothing?

Breathing room?

 

Negative space?

 

LINK? [This may or may not pertain for you to this particular photo. I understand it might not. But, in a lot of cases, there can be something said for swaths of a photo filled with nothing, which actually isn't usually nothing at all.]

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And sometimes it's just a distraction.

Absolutely. You had asked why 1/4 of a photo might be filled with nothing and I thought the article provided some answers to that specific question. The caveat I also provided was that it might not work for you in this case. I did understand both your question and your opinion of the photo.

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Breathing room?

 

Negative space?

 

LINK? [This may or may not pertain for you to this particular photo. I understand it might not. But, in a lot of cases, there can be something said for swaths of a photo filled with nothing, which actually isn't usually nothing at all.]

 

Thanks for the comments, Sam and Dieter.

 

I can think of both the sky and the dark foreground wheat field as negative spaces that provide space around the central third of my photo, which, I think, is where the main subjects and interest lies. So, if I crop the sky in the first image just a little more, so that the sky area is similar to the foreground area, I think that the photo appears more balanced. I agree that I overdid the crop in my second version.

 

The photo was taken on a beautiful sunny morning following a day of rain, producing the fog. My memory of the scene was one of peace and tranquility, rather than drama, hence my desire for balance.

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