Shinning Through 3

Duder Regional Park, Auckland, New Zealand

Really nice light on the foreground. On the one hand I am struck by the difference in light between the foreground and background (in a good way), but on the other, it makes two pictures: definitely crop at the top to focus on the incredible light - and I didn't even see the sheep until I did that!

Beautiful picture of a great landscape! I agree with the previous critique about the two pictures in one and, that slightly tilted horizon line doesn't help too. Still a great picture!

Regards

I may be wrong, but I think that you have to take what you can get in terms of the light. I've waited for hours in such a situation to get light in the foreground and the background in situations such as this, without it happening. One might think, with scattered clouds that eventually you'll get sun in both places. What I finally decided in one spot was that clouds were forming continually to keep my foreground in shadow, where the background was perhaps 50% in sunshine. So I've got to give the photographer some credit here. There is some direct light on the sheep on the right, and so, perhaps that's the best he got. What makes this picture astounding, and amusing to me, at the same time, is the perspective, and the fact that you DON'T notice the foreground sheep right off. Then suddenly, they leap out at you, pouncing in a most un-sheepish way, (perceptually pounce, I mean, visually they do look very sheepish.) Anyway, I wonder if you could even crop out even more of the foreground. The woods in the nearest background are mistaken for a mere hedge. Anyway, cropping out the foreground altogether would make a very nice photograph. With the foreground, it's a startling visual prank, at least.

I like the wide expanse of this photo. Nicely done.

You made an excellent definition of a landscape here, Ernest!

 

Lighting and details are perfect, and your DOF seems to reach infinity!

 

Superb!

This is quite extraordinary.  It looks like a stylized painting of some sort.

 

In any case, it gets a "seven" and goes into my favorites folder.

 

--Lannie