I appreciate the criticism, John. In fact, I have a few shots that include the water tanks (and I perspective corrected one for you below). However, landscape photography differs from landscape painting in that we must work with what nature presents us, and there are limits to what our wishes can impose upon the scene.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/pixelsmithy/14548768911/ In the image above, the much more interesting part of the sky is on the right hand side (and out of the frame to my right) and it is racing away from me at approximately 60 mph. I felt that the sky was the subject (in this case) more than the setting. The only thing I really wanted the setting for was foreground and sense of size perspective. While I think the image above is OK (maybe even the upper levels of mediocrity) I don't think it has the "wow" factor that the sky in the original image has. To me, that sky was the lead story and the image above "buries the lead" (to borrow a journalistic term). Behind me (in the image linked above) is 4 lanes of Interstate traffic. When I moved around to frame the interesting part of the sky, I got that traffic if I included the ground (which totally spoils the "out in the middle of nowhere in the prairie" look of the image) in my original shot. Finally, the clouds were not static, but were in violent motion that changed moment by moment. The scene I chose for the original shot was chosen because the clouds presented themselves in a particularly "wicked" fashion, even more than the frames taken moments sooner or later. So, you have to work with what you've got and the constraints that time and the scene put upon you. On Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 11:40 AM, John <[email protected]> wrote: > On 6/30/2014 8:11 PM, Darren Addy wrote: >> >> https://www.flickr.com/photos/pixelsmithy/14543374231/ >> >> Comments and criticism welcome in equal measure. >> > > I think actually SEEING the stock tank the windmill is attached to would > give it better context. And I'd really prefer the tower not leaning to > one side ... unless it actually IS leaning to one side, in which case, > the stock tank would again provide context. > > -- > Science - Questions we may never find answers for. > Religion - Answers we must never question. > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. -- Photographers must learn not to be ashamed to have their photographs look like photographs. ~ Alfred Stieglitz -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
