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08-05-09, 08:21 PM
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More rubbish landscapes from me! :D

Sorry if I'm annoying people now,but I love landscape photography, and apparently I'm a bit rubbish at it... so I'm constantly trying to do better.

Here's today's efforts:

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try not to be too scathing...

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08-05-09, 08:29 PM
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Re: More rubbish landscapes from me! :D

I don't think your rubbish zounds! I really love the last one, works fab in B&W!
We all have to start somewhere and as they say, practice makes perfect! You keep on posting, don't give up! I don't! lol
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08-05-09, 08:54 PM
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Re: More rubbish landscapes from me! :D

I like the last one too Z!

The trick with landscapes is to have something 'stunning' to take a picture of to begin with - not everywhere is that photogenic or pleasing to the eye, so don't be too hard on yourself!
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08-05-09, 09:04 PM
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Re: More rubbish landscapes from me! :D

Sadly - I live in one of the most beautiful places in the world - but it's not photogenic. It hasn't got any spectacular *OMG WOW!* views - but it is incredibly serene and pretty.

Part of me was trying to adhere to what Joe Cornish said in a recent article in one of the mags, about landscape photography being serene and pretty and quiet - not always big mountains and vavavoom.

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08-05-09, 09:06 PM
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Re: More rubbish landscapes from me! :D

Zounds
Do you know the difference between the first 2 pictures and the last coloured one?
If you take another look at the first 2 pictures they are flat and plain with no focal point.
To much sky and foreground meadow. For this kind of shot I would suggest looking around to add something, be it a fence-tree- building of farm equipment bearing in mind the rule of thirds to draw ones attn.

As for the next 2 photos I prefer the picture number 3 being landscape against portrait.
Why? again the sky is not the most important part of the photo. The path leading one into wanting to see what is down the slope is fascinating.
The portrait shot gives me at least the feeling of being in a canyon.

Can I give a little tip about how much sky/forground in a photo? before any editing and with the picture on screen, place a book or folder or something across the top/bottom of the picture and move it up or down to see how much sky there should be. It saves hours of cropping etc if you know beforehand where the crop should be. It can work on side crops as well.

At least it gives some idea if a picture should be cropped or not

Try it on picture number number 4 sky and you will see what I mean.

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08-05-09, 09:09 PM
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Re: More rubbish landscapes from me! :D

Thanks Bazza I have to admit I've always been a sucker for lots of sky - it just always really appeals to me

I will take on board what's been said and have another go next time I'm anywhere to take landscapes. I think on reflection though, perhaps I'd better give up trying to photograph Dunmanway - we have no interesting scenery! This is why *all* the Dunmanway postcards don't look at all like Dunmanway... bet they're not!

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08-05-09, 09:28 PM
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Re: More rubbish landscapes from me! :D

There is nothing wrong with sky shots if that is what you want to take.








As you can see if taking pictures of sky then that in my book should be most of the picture. With sky photos what doesn't work on colour can be fantastic in B/W. Even the same section of sky a few minutes later can produce a completely different picture.


Trying to combine both sky and landscape I don't think really works

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08-05-09, 09:37 PM
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Re: More rubbish landscapes from me! :D

I have to disagree on that one to be honest, I think sky always looks better in context to its landscape/buildings etc.

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08-05-09, 09:44 PM
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Re: More rubbish landscapes from me! :D

Everyone has their own opinions,What I was trying to portray is the sky can create lovely pictures in their own right.

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08-05-09, 09:51 PM
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Re: More rubbish landscapes from me! :D

Last one works best for me too, landscape stuff is harder than it looks! As previous advice there are things that can come together to make a shot work a little better than another.

All the things that make a good landscape you've got in the last. The lead in with the road, foreground interest with the grave and then when you follow the road it leads to the church. The use of the trees as a frame to the shot works well too, keeping the eye within the pic and stopping it straying.
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