Kaylen M Pocaterra
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I loved the color combination and depth in these photos!
Ridged Sunset
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Hey Kaylen,
Welcome to FocalWorld! It's great to see you here!
You have a nice and varied set of photos to begin with.
I agree with Zeph, that #2 is my favorite. I like how you worked the sun in this. That large round rock adds some great foreground interest, and I like that tree stretching through most of the frame.
With #1 it's a nice view, but visually I am having a harder time trying to find a visual point of interest. Most photos we want something in the photo that our eyes gravitate to. Like in your #2 shot, the eye starts at that rock and then moves to the sun. So #1 is nice overview for sure. But I think I might try a crop where the visual focus ends up being more of those bluffs in the middle. Perhaps a bit of a crop off the bottom and some off the top? It's hard without playing with it.
#3 I think has a few things going on with it. 1st your horizon is almost dead center. The rule of thirds may not be an absolute rule, but it's an awesome guide line that should normally be considered. The upper half is just blue sky, there is nothing there to carry the image. And for me, the deep dark shadows don't work in the ground. As a suggestion, I would like to see more detail in the ground, I think that long hill that is in shadow in the middle of the frame could help carry the image, if there was some detail on it draw the eye visually. So I would crop half of the sky, and since that would then dictate losing off the sides if you keep the same format crop you might want to consider as a 2nd crop option going to a pano crop.
And last, you should probably reduce the size of your watermark, and move it to either the lower left or lower right corner. It's a bit intrusive being so in the face as it is. If you view the photos here, you will see most of us don't bother with watermarks, or if we do, they are pretty small so as to not take away from the photo.
Whew... I hope that wasn't too much to think about. You do have a pretty sweet shot in #2, and the other 2 in my opinion just need a bit of tweaking to bring out their full potential.
Jim
Welcome to FocalWorld! It's great to see you here!
You have a nice and varied set of photos to begin with.
I agree with Zeph, that #2 is my favorite. I like how you worked the sun in this. That large round rock adds some great foreground interest, and I like that tree stretching through most of the frame.
With #1 it's a nice view, but visually I am having a harder time trying to find a visual point of interest. Most photos we want something in the photo that our eyes gravitate to. Like in your #2 shot, the eye starts at that rock and then moves to the sun. So #1 is nice overview for sure. But I think I might try a crop where the visual focus ends up being more of those bluffs in the middle. Perhaps a bit of a crop off the bottom and some off the top? It's hard without playing with it.
#3 I think has a few things going on with it. 1st your horizon is almost dead center. The rule of thirds may not be an absolute rule, but it's an awesome guide line that should normally be considered. The upper half is just blue sky, there is nothing there to carry the image. And for me, the deep dark shadows don't work in the ground. As a suggestion, I would like to see more detail in the ground, I think that long hill that is in shadow in the middle of the frame could help carry the image, if there was some detail on it draw the eye visually. So I would crop half of the sky, and since that would then dictate losing off the sides if you keep the same format crop you might want to consider as a 2nd crop option going to a pano crop.
And last, you should probably reduce the size of your watermark, and move it to either the lower left or lower right corner. It's a bit intrusive being so in the face as it is. If you view the photos here, you will see most of us don't bother with watermarks, or if we do, they are pretty small so as to not take away from the photo.
Whew... I hope that wasn't too much to think about. You do have a pretty sweet shot in #2, and the other 2 in my opinion just need a bit of tweaking to bring out their full potential.
Jim
Bob Denton
Premium Member
A nice series of photos! The second one sure stands out to me!
And welcome!
And welcome!
Welcome Kaylen, I like grand vistas as the first and last are, but the second sure does grab my attention.