Wednesday Landscapes, 19 July 2023

[Leslie Reid]

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.

I've been agonizing over the crop on this one. There was a lot of interesting detail to the left of the rock, so I'd originally placed the rock toward the right of the frame. That version almost got posted, but at the last minute I decided the right side was too heavy, so I recropped to move the rock toward the left. And now I'm not so sure. What the heck, I'll post them both. Here's the second crop:

and here's the first:

[luis triguez]

Nikkor AF-S 18-105 DX (52) on D2X

 

 

Edited July 19, 2023 by luis triguez

[Mike Marcotte]

[Gerald Cafferty]

[Glenn McCreery]

Setting full moon at dawn.

Edited July 21, 2023 by Glenn McCreery

[frankmercer]

View of eastern Sierra Nevada mountains from Bridgeport, CA

 

[michael_kucinich]

On 7/19/2023 at 12:06 AM, Leslie Reid said:

 

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.

I've been agonizing over the crop on this one. There was a lot of interesting detail to the left of the rock, so I'd originally placed the rock toward the right of the frame. That version almost got posted, but at the last minute I decided the right side was too heavy, so I recropped to move the rock toward the left. And now I'm not so sure. What the heck, I'll post them both. Here's the second crop:

and here's the first:

To my eye, the composition with The Rock on the left side is much stronger. This sets up a nice diagonal from The Rock to the gold reflection and the opposing angles of the wave by The Rock versus the wave at the top of the screen also makes the image stronger.

[Leslie Reid]

50 minutes ago, michael_kucinich said:

To my eye, the composition with The Rock on the left side is much stronger. This sets up a nice diagonal from The Rock to the gold reflection and the opposing angles of the wave by The Rock versus the wave at the top of the screen also makes the image stronger.

Many thanks, Michael! It helps me a lot to see how others react to my images, and particularly so in cases like this where I'm torn between two options. I like your geometrical analysis--I think you put into words the things my gut-level feelings were based on.