35mm colour landscapes [2] Dun Briste, Downpatrick Head, Co. Mayo

Beautiful.

Lovely -- both in subject and in color. Rather a unique viewpoint... glad you had your camera with you!

Although dark for details, this is a good shot

Lovely photograph with an amazing DOF and beautiful colors.

 

Congratulations.

This is of a sea stack in the Atlantic Ocean and in photographing it

I am facing due north about 45 minutes after sun rise. I wanted to

shoot it face on to reveal the lit and unlit faces but the difficulty

was to find a way of showing it with some foreground interest. There

was this shallow dip in the cliff edge about 2 foot across which I

could shoot through if I got down to knee height. I normally like to

have everything in focus, front to back but the wind put pay to that,

and besides I thought a bit of motion would give that extra cliff-

edge experience to the picture. As one poster has already mentioned,

scrolling the picture up to the edge of your screen will demonstrate

the curvature of the earth.

 

Would you like to rate the result? Thanks ever so much to everyone

for looking.

Love the colors, the clouds, the detail, and especially the flowers swaying in the breeze.

Gorgeous shot!

Beautiful colors- it would have looked better if the flowers were sharp but i guess you had to sacrifice something to get that DOF! Great shot.

Tom, it's ... upfh, pardon me ... wind.

Phil, another nice shot. Of course I will do some nitpicking to keep my comments interesting ;-)

 

I do agree with Tom that a sharp foreground would have been nicer. Of course you have to make a sacrifice to reach that: less depth of field (which might have been possible here?) or a faster film, which would have meant the loss of quality you get from Fuji Velvia. Maybe you did consider all this already though.

 

Secondly, I'm not certain about the use of the polariser here. I usually don't really like the very dark parts in the sky, certainly not if the contrast also changes from one side to the other and not alone from top to bottom (still folow me here?).

 

Thirdly, and I don't know wether this would have been possible, but I would have tried to take this shot from an even lower point of view, to let te top of the "tower" come out above the horizon a bit more.

 

And as a last (really nitpicky) point, your lens gave the impression of a curved horizon. Of course you can't help that, apart from buying another lens. In a way this is a bit disturbing, but at the same time it adds to the grandeur of the scene.

 

But altogether, this is a very lovely picture indeed!

Thanks Arthur. I do prefer a critique which provides "ways by which this may have been improved." They're really useful. Nit pick some more!

 

That said, I was aware of a couple of the points you mention. Below is the text of my introduction to this photograph for critters corner in November last year.

 

"This is of a sea stack in the Atlantic Ocean and in photographing it I am facing due north about 45 minutes after sun rise. I wanted to shoot it face on to reveal the lit and unlit faces but the difficulty was to find a way of showing it with some foreground interest. There was this shallow dip in the cliff edge about 2 foot across which I could shoot through if I got down to knee height. I normally like to have everything in focus, front to back but the wind put pay to that, and besides I thought a bit of motion would give that extra cliff- edge experience to the picture. As one poster has already mentioned, scrolling the picture up to the edge of your screen will demonstrate the curvature of the earth."

 

Funny how you hit on the same concerns I did! The remaining point concerns the use of the polariser. I agree that filter use at its best is when filter use is indiscernable. A near blue-black portion of the sky graduating to weak blue owing to excessive polarisation is poor use of the filter. In this picture I don't detect any harsh graduation from left to right. There is graduation from top to bottom, but as I understand things, the sky blue does increase in intensity from the horizon upwards.

 

Thanks again.

beautiful blue....bravo morris

Wonderful photo......

As a fan of wind motion, I like this result very much. Fabulous sky too. Thanks for sharing.

Excelent photo. One of the clouds is a bit hot, but that's easy to fix. Really nice.