Towards Great Gable from The Honnister Path

Any comments are welcome

Nice place. I like the shot. Personally, I would go for a tighter crop to have a panoramic format. See the attachment. Best wishes. Peter

I agree, the cropped version is much more effective. Nice shot though!

I considered cropping the image as you suggested, however I felt that the original image gave greater depth to the landscape. I wanted to give a feeling for the immence feeling of space that this landscape gives, and for the great distances that I walked that day!

 

Perhaps I was wrong.

Nicolas, although I think my crop is not bad, you are right about the loss of depth in it. Having looked at the larger version, I see I had removed the parts of grass where the stalks form lines to lead the viewer in the image. My reason to crop to a panorama was mostly the sky, which is nicely blue, but without any detail (and has little to to with depth). I attach a second crop, hope you'll like it better. By no way I mean to try to be negative or convince you of anything, please take it only as my honest subjective opinion. Best regards. Peter

Peter, I think that your second crop really improves the image. You are quite right about the sky, but I'm glad you like my point about the grass. Anyhow, between us, we got there in the end. Thanks for your advice, I really appreciate it.

 

Kind regards.

Nicolas, you are welcome. The place you visited is beautiful and presented in good light. One cannot choose what the sky will look like when he gets there. Maybe next time you shall have some nice cloud formations. Good luck for that. Peter

This could almost be Colorado :)The second crop option is definitely the way to go - it helps take the mountain in the background even further off the center. Nice time of day too, and I like the simplicity of it.

one of those late comments , )

 

though i like peter's second crop and think it may make a somehow more aesthetically pleasing image (ok, not one of my english speaking days.... ), i like the original a lot more. it looks to me less posed, less controlled somehow. more (and this is of course no way to speak about photography ;-), more real.

 

excellent image, like so many of your pictures here. i'm glad i (accidentally) came across your portfolio.

 

best - th

it seems, nicholas,that we were at the Lakes at about the same time. great time wasn't it? (even if in my days there, i had no clear sky at all like in your photo... and had to deal with the rather normal, constant drizzling -mostly my camera complained as i had no plastic bag with me)

 

from this folder, i think i like more this one. i guess due to its abstracted simplicity, which still, though, emphasises the very characteristic red and yellow colours of the season.

 

(check my attachment.. maybe not showing it well but especially the colourful, often deep red, plantation around was unbelievable!)