----- Original Message ----- From: "Jostein" Subject: Re: PAW
> Hi, Bill. > > On composition, I'd say that the tree is damn well placed. It breaks the > horizontal lines nicely. The top of the tree is exactly enough into the sky > area, and the trunk is rooted well in the foreground. To my taste, the > composition becomes even tighter if you take away enough of the foreground to > make the horizontal lines split thirds. Hi Jostein. As an aside, that shot is full frame. I didn't crop a thing in post processing There was a farm just to the left that was kinda ugly, it is just outside the frame, and just below the grass in the forground is a barbed wire fence or something equally ugly. > > On the technical side, I'm impressed with the contrast control. I would have > expected the brightness of the clouds to burn out more. Have you combined two > exposures? It's one exposure, and some luck, I guess. The lens is my old Tokina ATX-80-200 (no CA that I can see), which doesn't have an A position, so I used the auto green button thingie and took the picture. William Robb
