Critique Misty Loch Achray

Its the second shot for me.
When I look at the first, my eye is drawn to the top of the frame, searching for that golden light that is hinted at!
The second is a much nicer frame IMO, which has some great lighting and conditions.
The third isn't really my sort of thing to be honest.
 
Beyond the golden light is some felled trees and cloudless blue sky mate, you ain't missing much but I take the point. Maybe a 3:1 crop might work better, its not something I considered but just scrolling with the mouse I see the idea...
 
ST4 said:
Beyond the golden light is some felled trees and cloudless blue sky mate, you ain't missing much but I take the point. Maybe a 3:1 crop might work better, its not something I considered but just scrolling with the mouse I see the idea...
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I'm crap at crop ratios. but if you mean losing the top of the frame, I think it would work better in my book. Why not try a 50:50 reflection just for the crack :cool:
 
Number three is a bit meh for me (sorry).

The other two though ... Interesting, softer and gentler renderings from you here. I find them rather pleasant tbh. The top 2 evoke that lazy, hazy days of summer type feel (even though it isn't summer). Lovely composition too, delightful light and a sympathetic touch. Well done :)
 
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MattyW said:
I'm crap at crop ratios. but if you mean losing the top of the frame, I think it would work better in my book. Why not try a 50:50 reflection just for the crack :cool:
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LOL. It was composed as such but when I downloaded it to the Mac it just didn't look right. I think 50:50 might be the way losing the top going for an ulta wide. I've done it now. Seems like you were on the money

_DSC9438 (2) by Stephen Taylor, on Flickr
 
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Ha! before i read through the thread I had done a scrolling crop on Number 1 Yep the cropped version is miles better IMHO.
I'm not so sold on Number 2, something missing.... maybe is just the portrait orientation .... narrow frame not sure?
Number 3 i quite like that too... very subtle
 
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Hi Steve, two is very tightly cropped as I had a long lens on at the time. I did consider changing it but to the rhs lies quite a large number of felled trees giving a bald patch look to the scene.
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Hi Mate yes that's the trouble isn't it we never see the bigger picture, no pun intended.
When we pull up comments like 'if you had moved 50ft to the right and taken that' but unknowingly There's a 500ft drop 50ft to the right ..... Well you know what I'm saying...
We have to work within limits don't we! BTW do you find you use a long lens much? Just wondering...
 
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69Bonni said:
Hi Mate yes that's the trouble isn't it we never see the bigger picture, no pun intended.
When we pull up comments like 'if you had moved 50ft to the right and taken that' but unknowingly There's a 500ft drop 50ft to the right ..... Well you know what I'm saying...
We have to work within limits don't we! BTW do you find you use a long lens much? Just wondering...
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I hear you...I am guilty also of critiquing others work like this. As it were, as I was scoping a better vantage point the ground I stood in gave way and me, the D800 etc went into the drink. I was soaked through, the camera worked for a bit then was fooked. 2hrs blasting the thing with a hair dryer and its fine now. Driving back sat on a towl bare from the top down was fun, but cream leather seats and muddy clothes do not mix...

I hardly ever use a long lens, very rarely. I bought one off here, £140 for a 1987 IIRC Nikkor 70-210F4. I could get one of those newer, less colour fringing, more flare resistant and slightly sharper 70-200 F4 things but for £600 odd more its not an outlay I need.

Of all my lenses the 24-70 is used the most, followed by the 16-35 then the 24mm tilt shift.

However a long lens is useful for certain places. Without it I never would have managed to shoot the Rattray Head lighthouse series nearly as successfully as I did.
 
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Excellent and there is me thinking I was the only one! I did manage to do my Excalibur act and although I was fully submerged the camera was above water, luckily I had already removed my backpack. I did repeat the exercise in Norway vanishing through a snowdrift oh what fun eh, falling into lakes and rivers is an occupational hazard eh! I also have driven home in a set of overalls I happened to have in the boot and only wearing soggy socks.

Just wondering about the longer lens, I do use mine all be it sparingly usually to compress things like bluebells, heather flowering that sort of thing give more density of colour the 24-70 is pretty much welded on but I use the 16-35 and I now have a Zeiss 21 which I love.

Keep up the good work mate(y)
 
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That last crop is the one for me....maybe you ought to think about doing a few more 50:50 reflections!! :)
 
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First for me Steve.
Beautiful.
 
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Some very nice work here Steve
 
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