Dead Vlei

Dead Vlei. Enjoy.

other-worldly and very nice composition

Excellent work! 7/7 (anon). Best regards.

Nice! Its a great martian landscape!! 7/7

ethereal beauty in the wilderness! dead can be so alive and dominent! regards!

a nice shot, vibrant colors, tack sharp, surreal. Perhaps I would add a bit more space on the bottom.

I like the idea, but I'm not sure on the composition. It seems like it needs a bit more space on the bottom and a little less on the top. Also, the effects of the polarizing filter are very heavily pronounced. Some portions of the sky have been darkened more than others, a problem which can be solved by dodging. If you are ever out at this location again, it might be interesting to see what would happen if you used a longer lens to make the tree appear slightly smaller than the hills behind and to increase the size of the bg trees.

I am sorry but I dont agree with you at all. You seems to be a begginer who wants to judge something no matter what.

First of all 14mm Mark II has so round front element (more rounded than a fisheye) that it cannot take any filter in front and I didnt use polarizer. If I did effect of polarizing would be much different.

I have my own style and I underexposed the scene and that is why it has darker areas and it is quite strong saturated. I guess if you shoot Velvia 10 years you will know what I am talking about.

Composition is just fine - rule of three thirds worked the best for me for this photo and I have it in 24x36inch print at home and I love the result. In small format if somebody really want to bitch about the photo it might look possible to leave more space at the bottom. But it is just enough of that to keep this composition working. In larger version it is even more visible.

Christhopher I dont need to go back to the location I have hundreds of good prints from there already and if you are so smart you should get there in the first place and bring something interesting on your own. In my critiques I never sent anybody back to shoot it again but I have seen so many jealous people complaining about something just because they cannot travel. I do photography for my living and this is one of my top 5 selling and exhibition photo.

You are 18 years old and you dont have any clue about photography, take a look on your gallery on photo.net and try to improve and dont waste your time for critiques they will be only harming real photographers and you wont get your critique photo.net mark anyway.

You picked up camera for a first time in 2006 what do you know about art, design, compositions, exposure, film and digital photography, lenses, landscape techniques...?