Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/04/02

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Subject: [Leica] wyoming...
From: tedgrant at shaw.ca (Ted Grant)
Date: Thu, 2 Apr 2009 10:36:11 -0700

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  :-)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



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