I liked the softness of the light combined with the grit of the old barn and tree here. However, there were telephone wires through the scene as I wanted to capture it. I went ahead and captured it but it took a lot of editing to get rid of the unsightly wires (and there\'s a pole behind the tree!).
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I can't get over how spectacular your landscape photos are -- All of your photos -- but since my first love is nature -- its your landscapes that totally take my breath away! Every one is better than the last, until I look at the last one again, and its best again :)
This haunting beauty is so captivating! Everything about it is just plain flawless!!!!
An almost defiantly DPC image - and, as seems the general case, that guarantees you a strong finish, without quite breaking the higher echelons. What it is about those images that the site takes to it's heart still mystifies me completely.
I could take few guesses at the reasons for this one's missing the ribbons, but they'd be just that - guesswork, and you've been here long enough not to need my guidance in that, Neil.
Nice - the word used advisedly - landscape work seems to me a combination of factors: in the main, research, fortune, and patience. Research (and, obviously, an eye) to find the location, to know how the light might strike it, to see a composition; the fortune to be able to return to it at the right time, and to be granted the right weather, and the patience to wait for those opportunities. But really good photography should surely show us more than that - to my mind, should allow us a wondow on a world we hadn't quite considered, that hadn't struck us, that, most simply, we hadn't seen before...
Now, that's not a request for outrageous originality from every single photograph. Well, actually, it is - but not in the way that this place seems to understand originality, which is best summed up as 'new tricks for new dogs'. I absolutely believe that each one of us experiences our world in a different way, that the sum of our experiences make each and every one of us fundamentally different people, and that therefore what we percieve as worthy of record varies from each to the other. Therefore, any truly committed photograph should be a work of staggering originality, as no-one else would have thought it worth the press of the shutter.
And my problem with this shot, and this presentation and processing of this shot, is precisely that - that I've seen it before. Maybe not quite so dark as this one, and maybe with a better balance of foreground tree and building, and maybe with with less plain dodge and burn work, and maybe with the house less enveloped in the horizon line, but fundametally the same thing. It seems only to be a technical exercise - not any kind of expressive endeavour - and a technical exercise carries the expectation not only of the existence of an assessment of success, but actually of the necessity of that assessment. It is as though there are boxes to be ticked, and once those have been implacably completed, then surely we must have a perfect image, no?
But what if the intent showed through - somewhere in the tiniest details of composition, of scenic assessment, in the choices made in post-processing? What if there's really a little tell-tale sign that this isn't a work of the heart, but of the head?
I don't know where this goes. I don't know that I'm right to say there must be a heartfelt committment to one's subject, that these burnt images only pander to the masses here, that I'm right in seeing landscape photography simply as crowd-pleasing (and I wouldn't knock that) - pleasing the crowd is something we all resort to.
this is such a great photo.. So desolate and peaceful. The only thing wrong is that you should of burned it some more, especially the building . Or you could of even tried a slower shutter speed. 6
Very dramatic photo. The selection of the house is great. The detial of the grass came through good also which is often lost in post process through over saturation. (9)
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