Newbie's landscape photos

[agp]

I want to share some photos I took last year. Photography is a rather new hobby for me, so I am open to all comments and criticism on idea and composition as well as technique from the photography leviathans here. There's no post-camera photo-processing. Just working with my old LX7 + ND filter.

 

[jamesparker1250]

Nice pictures not to shabby .:thumbup:

 

[tirediron]

Nice scenes, however the exposures are suffering somewhat. As is common when there's a lot of sky in the composition, the foreground is under-exposed. Consider adding a graduated or split neutral density filter to your equation to allow for a 2/3 - 1 stop difference between sky and ground. You could also try shooting 3-5 images 1/3 - 1/2 stop apart and merging as an HDR.

 

[otherprof90 32]

You have a good eye. I'll be interested in seeing the different sorts of post processing that get recommended, many of which will be good, though different, suggestions.

 

[Derrel]

Your second shot uses a large, strong, and visually interesting foreground element in a very nice manner! Kudos! Your first shot uses the rip-rap around the harbor as a way to "contain" the frame, and to show a bit of context, so props on that. Your third shot, the one with the lighthouse and buildings (???), has almost nothing of real visual interest in the bottom areas of the shot, and it has a LOT of sky, and is the least interesting shot of all. It's a good example of the "far-away and uninteresting look" that a wide-angle lens setting can impart when used in certain situations.

The grasses and their lovely purple-hued seed heads....now THAT is a fabulous way to draw the viewer INTO THE SHOT! It conveys a sense of where you stood, and also shows us the actual season of the year.

The first shot, the sunset at the harbor...I can see into that file...that shot could have some software manipulation done on it, to increase the contrast and vibrancy in the "low tones", and it would be greatly improved with some careful software "expansion" of the low tones' color values. It seems just a bit dull in the low tones, which tend to sort of mush together on digital captures. The shadows on digital files have the least amount of separation, and they need work many times to "expand" the differences in close tonal values.

 

[agp]

Nice pictures not to shabby .:thumbup:

Thank you!

Nice scenes, however the exposures are suffering somewhat. As is common when there's a lot of sky in the composition, the foreground is under-exposed. Consider adding a graduated or split neutral density filter to your equation to allow for a 2/3 - 1 stop difference between sky and ground. You could also try shooting 3-5 images 1/3 - 1/2 stop apart and merging as an HDR.

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You have a good eye. I'll be interested in seeing the different sorts of post processing that get recommended, many of which will be good, though different, suggestions.

Thank you, I'll play around with the images on Photoshop this weekend and see what I can come up with.

Your second shot uses a large, strong, and visually interesting foreground element in a very nice manner! Kudos! Your first shot uses the rip-rap around the harbor as a way to "contain" the frame, and to show a bit of context, so props on that. Your third shot, the one with the lighthouse and buildings (???), has almost nothing of real visual interest in the bottom areas of the shot, and it has a LOT of sky, and is the least interesting shot of all. It's a good example of the "far-away and uninteresting look" that a wide-angle lens setting can impart when used in certain situations.

The grasses and their lovely purple-hued seed heads....now THAT is a fabulous way to draw the viewer INTO THE SHOT! It conveys a sense of where you stood, and also shows us the actual season of the year.

The first shot, the sunset at the harbor...I can see into that file...that shot could have some software manipulation done on it, to increase the contrast and vibrancy in the "low tones", and it would be greatly improved with some careful software "expansion" of the low tones' color values. It seems just a bit dull in the low tones, which tend to sort of mush together on digital captures. The shadows on digital files have the least amount of separation, and they need work many times to "expand" the differences in close tonal values.

Thank you for the feedback. The second image is my favorite as well. And the third, well... I wanted to capture a picture at where I was but hit photgrapher's block on finding something interesting.

I think the first could be better if I could somehow make it more HDR? But if I do that, the emphasis of the sunlight on one side of the clouds/rocks/buildings may be diminished. I really liked the juxtaposition of the warm sunset on one side onto the underexposed/dark side.