Taken on Dartmoor, near Okehampton Camp, as the weather was closing in. There was already quite a bit of drizzle and a considerable wind-chill. I just managed to get a few shots before taking cover.
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Wow, I love the earthy tones in this picture. it's so drab, and base, like I would imagine a storm to be. I've been to Devon, and I remember the fields just like that. So lovely and wonderful, I really miss it sometimes.
On the technical side of things, I find this photograph a tiny bit grainy. Now how can you avoid this in the future? Well.. start with a slower shutter speed. That will allow more light to come into the shot, and that means you'll get a larger range of colour, and basically, more light. I think the Aperture was fine... and well, you haven't provided me with the ISO, so I have no clue what it was. By the looks of it, it may have been 300 or 400, I'm not too sure. What else could you have done? I think a bit of colour enhancement with the hue and saturation, if you'd played with that a bit, you could have gotten more of a range of colours instead of the drabness (which I don't really mind, it seems more realistic this way). I would also suggest using a tripod for any kind of shot because it removes the shaky hand syndrome as I call it. You'd be surprised how much your hands shake when you don't mean it, so when you stick your camera on a tripod and hit the timer, you can stand back and let your tripod do the work, and that's lovely seeing the image afterward, crisp and sharp.
I definitely feel this picture has met the challenge, and very well indeed. I feel you were marked down because of the fuzziness to the photo, and that's it. Well done, and keep up the good work!
-Annida
Nice cloud formations. In my opinion the landscape detracts from your shot. I think the clouds would appear much more dramatic if you simply blacked out the rest.
Angry clouds over yonder! This pic should have been sharpened in the postprocessing phase to reduce the unfocused effect. The composition is good though.
At first glance the greyness of the land kinda turned me off of the overall picture. However, after looking at it for a few minutes I now think it completely enhances the picture. I really like the fence in the corner too, don't know why, I just like it.
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