shadow

I am not looking for suggestions that include cropping or removing the

shadow, that is not what this photo is about.

It's hard to make early-morning or late-afternoon snow look right if it is dark. Lens shade vignetting is neat.

Actually your picture is good as it is without that shadow. It looked odd to me unless... (ghost).Is it? Or a guardian "angel" perhaps? I'm just kidding.

 

You know I got a lense like yours' but I'm still learning how to use it, share my picture

from it.

 

 

I kind of like the vignetting here as well as the long shadow of the photographer

it doesn't mesh with the lines that you have going. The cabin is in an awkward location within the frame, and the sun in this location should have been used to pull that old tattered barn which looks divine out of the surrounding area and made it pop, but you actually succeeded in making it die, even with the wonderful sunlight it was getting. I guess I get upset when I see something like this that could have been a dream shot... turned into a half cent shot. Keep trying. Im truly not trying to be mean, I just see that you could do a lot more than you're doing. next time in this situation when the sun is beating down on something like this, pull it out of there, use a little more shallower depth of field, let it take up 1/3 of the frame.... and on the other side... give it another element to bounce off of... you want to compose the shot so that you know exactly how an eye will travel around it when they see it... You are the composer... the picture is what you are using to tell the eye what to do.. if that makes sense.

This is the definition of Vignetting - A photograph or drawing whose edges gradually fade into the surrounding paper is called a vignette. The art of creating such an illustration is a deliberate one. Yet the word vignetting is also used to indicate an unintended darkening of the image corners in a photographic image. There are three different mechanisms which may be responsible. Natural and optical vignetting are inherent to each lens design, while mechanical vignetting is due to THE USE OF IMPROPER ATTACHMENTS TO THE LENS. Natural and optical vignetting lead to a gradual transition from a brighter image center to darker corners. At large apertures both phenomena are present and the combined effect is often designated by the term 'illumination falloff'. Mechanical vignetting can also give rise to gradual falloff, although the usual connotation is one where it causes an ABRUPT TRANSITION WITH ENTIRELY BLACK IMAGE CORNERS.

 

THE USE OF IMPROPER ATTACHMENTS TO THE LENS which causes ABRUPT TRANSITION WITH ENTIRELY BLACK IMAGE CORNERS

 

I took a shot or two like this before because the lens hood on my 16-35 2.8 twisted on the lens in my bag without me knowing. They made it about as far as my computers trash folder.

 

I'm not going to tell you that you need to get rid of this image or crop it... that's your choice. I'm just gonna let you know that it's not the best looking shot, it's not special because of the lens hood in the frame, and the angle is nothing spactacular. I do like that you have yourself in the image... Next time give a wave! cheers! - Extreme

 

http://www.vanwalree.com/optics/vignetting.html