LightandShadow

There’s a type of tree that grows out your way that sends runners. They “sprout” but are a single tree. Not sure if that’s what you’ve got in the foreground.

This is really good. Striking image but I appreciate how much care you took to render this scene. It ain’t that easy!

Here’s a view from the bench, looking toward the river. I meant to get the bench itself in sharp focus. I love empty benches.

and one of several paths down to the river-a 4 foot drop from the edge.

Thanks all. These sorts of scenes can be difficult. They’re rather busy and finding a center of interest can be difficult. The title though says what I could extract.

This area has a very large flat set of boulders in the river. Pretty easy access and can be very busy with sunbathers, fishing, children looking for frogs and tadpoles. There are 2…[Read more]

Neat, colorful and nicely framed.  Do you have a blind set up

Perfectly positioned, exposed with just the right shutter speed. Really well done.

Welcome. Where in the UK are you?

I agree woth RG’s crop. A case where placing the subject at the rule of 3rds doesn’t work.  Lose the featureless sky. Adding haze might recover some of what you saw on site but have lost-thanks to the camera’s “help”. I might just go square but would want to retain the sign on the left unless it made too much foreground.

I prefer the 1st one. The -lacement of the gapgives me a sense of balance and adds to the rule of 3rds Stephen mentioned.  The 2nd one ends on an upward slope on the right frame edge  and exclusion of that peak seems incomplete to me.

Two other things: start with Forums => latest. It avoids searching through sub-forums. Responding to comments you do receive seems to encourage more interaction.

When the blooms hit, I’ll go back with my 500mm. My phone didn’t have the reach you seem to want.

That’s not actually unusual. It is a relatively small forum and even some of the admin seem to be here a couple of times a week rather than having a large group visiting and active daily.

Most new members to old style forums (and this is one) get integrated by commenting on others’ submissions then sending in their own and being patient. Com…[Read more]

No bad weather. Just wrong clothes? Love textures in the clouds as a contrast to strong colors.

Benches in good light are always so inviting. Makes me want to sit and watch the world wander by, maybe with a stealth camera in hand.

Wonderful. Thanks for getting up and out.

Cute with great light

Smooth tones too.

I recently saw a YouTube video about landscapes and shooting into a bright sky. His point of view was not to mind the blowouts, portraying the scene as seen, not trying to blend a half dozen or so raw files to get better texture in the background, only using the better exposed fore and mid ground as the focal point of interest.

I’m not a portrait…[Read more]