Wanted to take a landscape panoramic and this is my chance.
Polarising filter, cropping, some levels, dodging and burning, dust cloning and couple of cars made to disappear together with more "aggressive" PP than I usually do.
Details of the location if you are interested are as follows (Volcanic Rangitoto in the background - looks fake (like a childrens drawing of a Volcano) but very real:-
Maunga-a-Reipae, 'watchful mountain' or 'the mountain of Reipae'
Location: Auckland City, map reference NZMS 260: R11/750772
Height: 135m
Age: Formed about 9000 years ago
Volume lava: 160 million cubic metres (equivalent to 32,000 Olympic sized swimming pools)
Volume tuff/ash/pyroclastics: 9.2 million cubic metres (equivalent to 1,840 Olympic sized swimming pools).
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Not bad but composition as far as the tree goes too centered for my taste, had you moved a couple of steps to the right it would instantly have appealed more to me.
Very nice image. I like the softness of the grass, the balance of land and sky. Nice frame. Only thing I would like to see different is maybe the blue sky on the right a little darker... but very minor.
Don't like the near centered tree orientation, especially when there is so little of viewer interest on the far left that could be cropped out for a better tree off set with more viewer interest. The tree and its shadow is the main subject and you want to do EVERYTHING possible to highlight it.
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