Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/04/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Steve Barbour showed: Subject: [LRflex] wyoming... valley of the tetons & jenny lake... http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/barbour/PAW+2009/view_001.jpg.html http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/barbour/PAW+2009/floor.jpg.html http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/barbour/PAW+2009/jenny.jpg.html Hi Steve, There's nothing like a super wide for "big country photos." Or shooting images other folks can't.. UNLESS! They have the same or wider lens you are using. One of the reasons I worked my 15mm Leica R lens constantly on travel assignments. For interiors? It's a killer and will make the most gorgeous of locations look a hundred times better & bigger! However a couple of "maybe" suggestions for these. View 1: You might have a look at cropping the bottom up to the bottom of the big pine? Spruce on the right. In other words just take the "brighter grasses out and it becomes a wider look" and takes away the lighter distracting foreground while increasing the power of the over all picture. OR! Burn this area down slightly so it doesn't stand out so dominantly. Yep you've filled the image area well with the 19. However, sometimes a super wide creates a slightly "more than we need in foreground or sky." In this case it's crop top or bottom, or burn the area down so it isn't so eye catching. Always slightly!! View 2: Absolutely beautiful! Sharpness everywhere right where it should be. In this kind of situation you've created the . "I can step right through the screen into the photo location~!" Just as it should be. Very effective photograph! Good on you ! View 3: As soon as it opened my eye was drawn immediately to the "flair?" Upper left area, making it the least effective of the three. Yep the reflection is nice, But? It might have looked OK in colour, B&W it just doesn't cut it. Ask yourself . Is this as good as the other two? Or does it pull them down? Or is this one of your all time best landscape pictures? Then look at the delete key and hit it! ;-) Dr. ted :-)