Gallery: LandscapePosted August 4, 2012414 views4 comments
Along Cairn Basin trail. Hottest day of the year, but cool enough at 7am
Canon 5DMk2, TS 24mm. Iso 250, f16, 1/60. composites for DOF and for HDR sky, then 2 image shift pano.
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Comment posted by Alex Noriega on August 5, 2012 at 1:03 AM
A nicely executed DOF blend, although there are some small OOF areas of the upper-left grass that have in-focus elements behind and in front of them (only visible in the large version, so I'd only worry about it in a print).
There's nice light here, and certainly nice misty conditions and a fortuitous display of wildflowers, but I'm not sure where I should be focusing with the composition. It seems busy, without strong enough placement of any single element - the whole upper-left quadrant of the image (except for the tiger lily poking into it) seems much less strong than the rest of the image, save for the sunstar - which is only barely edging through the trees, and thus might not be worth focusing on. I see the foreground flowers, the midground flowers, Hood, and the sun as the four primary elements - and they're all either near the edge of the frame, or right in the middle. I'm certainly not an adherent to the rule of thirds, but since the edge elements don't lead into the frame and the central element isn't terribly strong/prominent, I would prefer to see the "rule" employed a bit here.
I'd have liked to see Hood placed a little lower and more central or at least toward the UR third, since that's where your eye naturally wants to go - but instead you get led out of the frame by looking there. I think focusing on just the tiger lily and purple lupines as a FG, while pointing more to the right and eliminating the direct sunstar, and going for better placement of Hood itself, would have tightened up the composition. I checked out the rest of your gallery and the compositions are very nice - and this doesn't quite stack up to the rest for me.
Now, since you know where these flowers are and have the technical skills for DOF/exposure blends, I think you could definitely go back and come away with something no one else has of Hood this time of year!
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Comment posted by Philip Hodgkins on August 5, 2012 at 8:04 AM
Alex has pretty well nailed it for me. I agree with him 100%.
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Comment posted by John Williams on August 5, 2012 at 10:16 PM
Fantastic elements Daniel, but Alex's well thought out ideas would take this from a good to a great image.
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Comment posted by Andrew Morrill on August 7, 2012 at 12:25 AM
Really nice color and comp here. It feels like it shouldn't work (too busy) - but ends up really capturing the feeling of the place - like its more about the elements of the place than the comp -- works really well! Really unique shot and comp overall. Only nit - is something funky going on in the URC sky?
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4 commentsThere's nice light here, and certainly nice misty conditions and a fortuitous display of wildflowers, but I'm not sure where I should be focusing with the composition. It seems busy, without strong enough placement of any single element - the whole upper-left quadrant of the image (except for the tiger lily poking into it) seems much less strong than the rest of the image, save for the sunstar - which is only barely edging through the trees, and thus might not be worth focusing on. I see the foreground flowers, the midground flowers, Hood, and the sun as the four primary elements - and they're all either near the edge of the frame, or right in the middle. I'm certainly not an adherent to the rule of thirds, but since the edge elements don't lead into the frame and the central element isn't terribly strong/prominent, I would prefer to see the "rule" employed a bit here.
I'd have liked to see Hood placed a little lower and more central or at least toward the UR third, since that's where your eye naturally wants to go - but instead you get led out of the frame by looking there. I think focusing on just the tiger lily and purple lupines as a FG, while pointing more to the right and eliminating the direct sunstar, and going for better placement of Hood itself, would have tightened up the composition. I checked out the rest of your gallery and the compositions are very nice - and this doesn't quite stack up to the rest for me.
Now, since you know where these flowers are and have the technical skills for DOF/exposure blends, I think you could definitely go back and come away with something no one else has of Hood this time of year!