Couple of landscape attempts

[stuart b]

Taken last year but just got around to having a go at processing them. Thoughts appreciated. I have some views on what's wrong with them but interested to hear others

They are both taken in Kerry, Ireland.

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Stuart

[GetCarter]

Just a few thoughts about the top pic. Great idea having the road leading you into the scene, great idea having the flora in the foreground to give perspective and colour... but if you do this I think the foreground flowers should be in focus. This will mean speed or apature priority on the camera and increase DOF to maximum.

ETA... if you'd moved back 30 feet and zoomed in a bit, the existing DOF would have probably kept the flowers in focus.

All IMHO of course.

Edited by GetCarter on Thursday 8th March 20:07

[stuart b]

Didn't think it would take you long to spot it Yup, schoolboy error on the DOF on that one. Hadn't thought about stepping back and zooming in though - that's worth knowing for next time I'm out.

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Stuart

[havoc]

Agreed on #1. Other option would have been to take photo from other side of road (make road more prominent lead-in) and lose the flowers. But taking a few steps back would probably have achieved both.

Can't see anything wrong with #2 - lovely pic! Which probably means my eyes need re-calibrating...what are you unhappy with in it?

[beano500]

Ah - technically good point, Steve, but rules are meant to be broken!

In this case I really like #1 because of the depth to it - and that's partly due to the flowers, but probably more to do with the clouds and the sky exposure generally.

[stuart b]

On number 1 I could have argued that it was out of focus because the focal point was water and mountain in distance and therefore everything leads your eye to that - but that would have been b*llocks - just simple ineptitude. Thanks for the tips - I shall try next time I get out.

On #2 I think that there's too much foreground and that the mountain is too small/far away. Could also have done with more of the harbour wall on the right to perhaps lead all the way round to the boats. I can't remember what was possible at the time. Possibly two options were to walk right and get the boats etc (I have a portrait shot which possibly works better) and/or to go left and stand on the spit in the midground in order to bring mountain closer. I think I've over-saturated a touch as well but that's easily addressed.

This was actually first attempt at getting up before dawn to try and get some morning light and from that point of view I was very pleased. For the first one I stood in the same place for about 30 mins and kept taking shots - the light literally changed every second.

Stuart