doug_nelson3

Nancy's comments and re-do are instructive to me as well. I live close enough to Napa and shot some there. Shooting full frame, or high res crop frame, leaves us the freedom to get a decent printable file size, even after cropping. After 40 years of photography, my work continues to suffer from including too much. That said, I looked at your portfolio and see that, when you do use wide angles, you do it very well. Your framing is what I often strive for and sometimes get right. Your original shot and Nancy's crop are equally valid ways of seeing this scene.

I'm not seeing the oversaturation and over-manipluation I see in a lot of landscape work. Well done.

I'm glad you didn't opt for the oversaturated Kandy Kolors some digital photogs do. Keep your setting at natural rendition and enhance in post processing if you wantg to do that.

With the kind of eye for landscape you have, consider shooting RAW, saving your original and processing in your chice of RAW processor (Canon's own DPP, Adobe Lightroom).

 

Doug Nelson

Like Ansel Adams' work, the scale is grand, but the composition is quite simple. As for any overexposure, highlights blow out all the time in what our eyes see. Is it just me, or does this scene suggest a histogram?

It reminds me of the shot not taken, years ago, near the White House in Washington, DC at Christmas time. The Bank of America's doorway was trimmed in greenery and red ribbons. A homeless guy was sleeping in the doorway. The caption would have read "Merry Christmas from My House to Yours". I had a camera with me every morning thereafter, but never saw this again.