More pictures of the White Horse Vale

Steph · Oct 19, 2006

All these pictures were taken near Uffington, Oxfordshire, UK at various times of the year and day. Let me know what you think.

1 - Sunset

2 - Sunset

3 - Sunset

4 - Sunrise

5 - Mid-afternoon

6 - Mid-afternoon

mysteryscribe · Oct 19, 2006

very nice stuff here

W.Smith · Oct 19, 2006

Steph said:
All these pictures were taken near Uffington, Oxfordshire, UK at various times of the year and day. Let me know what you think.

OK, I think they're empty and too saturated.
Sorry.

Don Simon · Oct 19, 2006

I don't agree with the 'empty' comment at all (thought the 4th pic seems a bit redundant when compared to the rest). Saturation in some could probably be reduced, but doesn't look all that excessive to me (then again my monitor isn't the same as yours).

Nice work!

lostprophet · Oct 19, 2006

they look fine to me.

Number 3 is a winner

JTHphoto · Oct 19, 2006

i like 'em...

esp. the first 3. :thumbup:

danalec99 · Oct 19, 2006

nice...

Rapala46 · Oct 19, 2006

I love these pictures. How do you get that coloring on the photos like that? what i mean is, how is every picture so virbantly dramatic. I've wanted to take photos like that for a while but I don;t see how it is done.

LaFoto · Oct 20, 2006

I think that 2, 4 and 5 should be made into a triptychon, then no one would call 4 redundant any more but they would be recognised as what they are: studies of the same place in different light situations. (I am very partial to that kind of studies, mind!)

And all of these make obvious to me once again why, if I had the choice, I would always vote for England as a country to go to for holidays ... or Ireland, but England, too!

I understand these are scanned prints (or scanned negatives)?
What film do you use?

Steph · Oct 20, 2006

LaFoto said:
I understand these are scanned prints (or scanned negatives)?
What film do you use?

These are prints scanned with a very cheap flatbed scanner. These shots were taken with Fuji Reala print film.

Steph · Oct 20, 2006

Rapala46 said:
I love these pictures. How do you get that coloring on the photos like that? what i mean is, how is every picture so virbantly dramatic. I've wanted to take photos like that for a while but I don;t see how it is done.

I often (but not always) use 3 types of filters when taking landscape pictures. A mild warm up filter (81B) to enhance the warm colours of sunset and sunrise, a polariser to saturate colours and Neutral Density graduated filters (ND grad) to retain some details in the sky when it is too bright compared to the rest of the scene. If you use a digital camera you can achieve the same effects with Photoshop apart maybe for the polariser. However, I think the most impotant is to wait for the right light...

Steph · Oct 20, 2006

LaFoto said:
And all of these make obvious to me once again why, if I had the choice, I would always vote for England as a country to go to for holidays ... or Ireland, but England, too!

You should also consider going to Scotland. I have been to both Ireland and Scotland and there are great photo opportunities (when th weather is not too ba!!). I will post some pictures from Ireland and Scotland in the future.

toastydeath · Oct 20, 2006

Foreword. My deepest apologies to Steph, because I'm about to hijack this thread a little. I hope you'll pardon me.

W.Smith said:
OK, I think they're empty and too saturated.
Sorry.

I've got some criticism for your criticism. It sucks.

But, unlike your criticism, I will attempt some sort of reasoning and make some suggestions.

I read through every post you've made on this forum, and you obviously have a wealth of technical and artistic knowledge. But, I had to read through every post you ever made to realize that. Until I did, I just thought you were a spiteful troll.

And I did have to read through all of it to realize those good qualities. Otherwise, your criticism is harsh, asinine in context, and useless to the photographer you give it to. Not because it isn't valid, but because it's left completely unfounded and has no alternate suggestions or reasoning. Your method of critique might as well be just flipping a coin to decide whether to debase someone or compliment them. Because to new photographers, that's about the same level of assistance. Fat lot of good that knowledge does you, eh?

Details allow the person taking the photos to improve in technical skill, and mabye, someday, make photos you feel that don't entirely suck ass. It also allows them to blow you off when you're criticizing aspects of their photography that they intentionally incorperate. I get flak very often for my framing. But that's because I like bizzare and cropped framing, and don't care in the least what anyone else thinks about it. I also like weird lighting, and I don't light the things people want me to light. Again, I don't care. But the critcism can still be valid. And because a detailed criticism has been given, that information and perspective can be incorporated next time a person peers down the viewfinder.

Steph · Oct 20, 2006

toastydeath said:
Foreword. My deepest apologies to Steph, because I'm about to hijack this thread a little. I hope you'll pardon me.

No worries toastydeath. I have to admit I was a bit surprised by W.Smith's reply to my second post. I decided to put some of my pictures on this forum to get constructive feedback from other people, whether they like my pictures or not. In this respect, W.Smith's comment does not help much.