glenerrolrd
Workshop Member
Terry I like the first one but agree that some modest croping using the original format might improve it . It would slightly increase the size of the car but retain the expansive feel. Roger
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jonoslack
Active member
HI Terry
Well - first of all, congratulations, it's a lovely shot.
I'm perhaps being a devil's advocate a little here, but I like the wide open feel the big sky gives, and I think the panorama loses it. I also like the v shape of the water on the left . . . . but I'd like to add the VW into that shape, and the only way to do that seems to be a bit of a crop - from the bottom and the left. There is now a soft of criss cross, which could only have been improved by getting the guy to repark his beetle!
Rather than vignetting, I've done a bit of a gradient on the sky, to focus the attention downwards, and also to give more of a feel to the sky.
Sorry - I'm bad at putting words to things which get done instinctively.
Anyway, this is not supposed to be how you should do it, but another take on the image.
I suddenly realised how old this thread is
you must have printed it ages ago!
Well - first of all, congratulations, it's a lovely shot.
I'm perhaps being a devil's advocate a little here, but I like the wide open feel the big sky gives, and I think the panorama loses it. I also like the v shape of the water on the left . . . . but I'd like to add the VW into that shape, and the only way to do that seems to be a bit of a crop - from the bottom and the left. There is now a soft of criss cross, which could only have been improved by getting the guy to repark his beetle!
Rather than vignetting, I've done a bit of a gradient on the sky, to focus the attention downwards, and also to give more of a feel to the sky.
Sorry - I'm bad at putting words to things which get done instinctively.
Anyway, this is not supposed to be how you should do it, but another take on the image.
I suddenly realised how old this thread is
you must have printed it ages ago!
jonoslack
Active member
Ah well, maybe it was a bit glib anyway . . . what I was really trying to do was to reinforce the criss-cross in the foreground with the car continuing the line of the rocks, and the shoreline in the other direction. . . . I'm also partial to negative space, and impartial to the rule of thirds:ROTFL:
Robert Campbell
Well-known member
It looks to me as if the horizon is tilted slightly; about half a degree rotation CW needed to correct. Or is it just me?