landscape ii Untitled

stunning image I love the how simple the lines are and the color is fantastic

 

great composition, thanks for sharing

 

regards

 

Ray

This is a very unique shot. The horizon is level and absolutely hails to the rule of thirds (or fourths in this case), and you anchored everything, including the wire, properly. If you ever get a chance to get this shot again, try it late in the evening, so that the shadows are more pronounced and the sky is darker.

It's very unique and cool, really.

Good one Aaron..nice composition.

I like it because it makes you think a second time. We've this built-in memory which tells... hey, stop, grass is green, what's this? And then gets eye catching.

 

As noted above, the wire coming in from the corner and the nice level and position of the horizon make it pleasent and harmonic to look at, not to mention the position of the poles and even their shadows.

An afterthought: it might also be an interesting shot without any background at all, just red grass and the three poles... do you have anything to show us? I think cropping this will not work since the pole to the right is too close to the future possible red border of the shot.

Salvatore: kind of. The angle is steeper, I'm looking down more directly at it. I have two more, I might upload them. I like your rationalization for the image (grass=green).

 

Gabriel: this actually was taken very near sunset and it was very hot light coming over the horzion. I didn't expect it to be so harsh on the poles.

Wow, this is pretty hot light for close to sunset. Was it hazy that day? Nice shot regardless. Would have been nice to have some dramitic clounds in the sky, but we can't control nature...yet!

It was odd light. There was more grain dust in the air than it seemed.

Very neat shot. I see it's Velvia, but I'm wondering what grain can go that red!

No added saturation, or favoring the red curve, honestly.

Good composition, brilliant color.

Aaron , Great colors !

 

Beautiful composition with wonderful color. I thought it might be even better if you had cropped the sky and trees out, but I think if you had, the picture would have lost its sense of depth.

I've thought about it.

Aaron-Great shot. You gotta love Velvia. When I shoot film, it's almost always my choice. RE-cropping this image.... I wouldn't want to eliminate the narrow yellow band that mimicks the color in the posts. I also like the green tree line that compliments the red grass. If the trees were taller, I would probably go ahead and lose the sky. In the end, I think you made the right choice to keep the sky. (Perhaps a compromise--crop half the sky?) What kind of grass is this???

I really appreciate your observations. I only posted this one because people wanted more of the "red stuff." I actually prefer the first one in my folder. Most people think it's grass, it actually isn't. It's a sage like plant called "Goosefoot," or "Red Samphire" (the m is intentional). It grows in very dry alkali soil. Several years ago this used to be a prairie slough.

Let me say upfront that I may be off and this may have indeed been your prefered exposure. But quite subjectively it appears just a bit underexposed. With your permission, I loaded a low color curve on it and increased the mid-tone by 0.10. What do you think?

Ali, in your version the red is definately more striking, but I feel the posts are a bit too hot now. You've lost some of the density and saturation in the sky, too. Just curious, what kind of curve did you use?

Interesting pic... keeps shifting from downhill to the left to perfectly level depending where you look. So thats what this plant is mmm. I'm interested too inhow the wire is saturated so red when lodgic says its not. I think velvia won't disern such a fine detail cause its so busy throwing buckets of colour. I use it a lot and kinda find the same effect happening.