Challenge:Travel Guides (Advanced Editing II) Camera:Nikon D100 Location: Batford, Herts LOL Date: Sep 1, 2004 Aperture: Not Recorded ISO: Not Recorded Shutter: Not Recorded Galleries:Landscape, Nature Date Uploaded: Sep 1, 2004
Taken in the same location as my Hope Challenge :D //www.dpchallenge.com/image.php?IMAGE_ID=99783
This is also a nice lesson in two photographs being taken in exactly the same location (to within a foot or two) and having completely different feels.
I wonder if anyone notices.
Being that the challenge stated 'of your chosen destination'. I wanted to take a photo that represented another country (Knowing how people vote on titles I would hardly get far had I called it 'batford UK' :D)
We have quite a few rolling hills etc that I toyed with, but this seemed to work best.
I have it in black & white and it rocks - but decided to submit a colored up version for DPC.
Also note this is my first shot with my new ND grad Cokin attached! I love it.
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Outstanding image, I like it a lot. If there would be something to change, it would maybe be the position of the tree, maybe not a central position??? I'm not sure. I'd guess this will end up high, maybe it will get a ribbon.
This is a very great shot. I love the contrast of colors between the foreground and the blue sky. Ever without the tree, it would be a great shot. The only point that I would have against it is the horizon line. It appears that it is lower on the right. Not sure if it is, but there looks like a hill farther off that is close in color to the foreground and makes it look higher there.
The sky here is openly overprocessed, so I won't say that it looks obvious! There's a touch of Six Feet Under about this with the solitary tree. Nicely observed - although as a travel guide image it loses points just a bit due to its lack of obvious attraction beyond an ordinary landscape - albeit made special in Photoshop.
My favorite of the challenge, and my only 10! I really like the shades of blue, and how they contrast with the orange ground. Congrats on a spectacular image!
This is such a beautiful shot. The only thing that is distracting for me is how light the sky is at the bottom and how dark it is at the top. If you want to edit that, you can select all of the blue parts of the sky, adjust curves until just the top looks good, then apply a gradient mask downward to apply the change more to the top of the sky than to the bottom. But that could be a lot of trouble to go through to marginally improve an already beautiful image.
An exquisite picture! Beautifully composed. I'm assuming that it was the terrain, but there is a slight tilt of the horizion, but I don't think it detracts from the scene too much.
Very impressive composition bordering on minimalist with just the tree. The sky is distracting with the very dark portion above the cloud and the lighter part below. I think that will hurt this photo the most.
wow!! I don't know what else to say, but wow!! Impressive colors, my eyes float right across the photo as the clouds appear to be doing. I love the little tree standing alone. Just...wow! I'm not a member and have never commented on a member challenge...if it gives me the option to rate this, you will see a 10 from me!
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