Landscape C&C Pls

Morrisseeee

I was on my travels the last few days, I managed to snap some snaps !!
What ye think ?

Masada

First ones brilliant.,

AnCatDubh

i like #1 the best - there is a good contrast and the colours are nicely saturated. You even managed to capture some rare blue in our skies. If anything were to be done i'd try get a little more out of the sky - adding a little selective saturation to the blue.

I think with #2, the subject may be a little far away - what focal length was used? Although there is an interesting pathway / road visible which is a nice feature of the island. Its just appears a little far away to my eye which is why i'm curious to the focal length.

Number 3 could do with a little contrast maybe to try eliminate some of the haze but i think the composition lacks the context of the top of the mountain which would have enhanced the visual appeal. But this may have been unavoidable for you depending on location, lens choice, etc..

I really like #1 though.

Cheers.

nilhg

I like these, in the first maybe you could open up the rocks a little, and the second could perhaps add some contrast to the sky.

The last is the weakest, cutting the top of the hill off doesn't work IMHO.

AnimalRights

#1 is fav
#2 is good too
#3 not so good, overexposed perhaps.

dakar

I like the colours in no 1. I find that the tower is a bit soft though. I don't know if its from a hand held shot, or maybe a little more DOF from a smaller aperture on a tripod might have helped. Nice lines and composition though.

I really like no 2. The wide angle highlights the smallness of the island against the size of the sea. I love the feeling of isolation. The colours are great again and the incoming rain really adds to the atmosphere. I find myself really wanting to walk up that path!

No 3 is not as good as the others. Have you considered a severe crop to a pano format with just the island (which is nicely lit), the boat and the woods on the shore, leaving out the bulk of the mountain. This works better for me just scrolling on the screen to chop bits out.

Nice set.

Morrisseeee

Many thanks for the replies.
I'll get back to work (especially on 3) in my trial versions of Lightroom & CS3 (which I just started last nite).
The 3rd is a crop, I'll see if I can do something with the original.
Meanwhile, here's another version where the mountain in greyed out, which I achieved by doing something in CS3, ahem....

Mr. Grieves

I like numbers 1 and 2 alot, they've a good mixture of foreground and background interest and really nice tones. I do wonder if they'd have more impact if the subject (the lighthouse) wasn't dead centre in both of them. I'd like to see a vertical crop of number 1 with the lighthouse more towards the top left, say (rule of thirds and all that).

Number 3 definitely benefits from the suggested crop. Nice photos!

Morrisseeee

I'd like to see a vertical crop of number 1 with the lighthouse more towards the top left

OR, something like this:

YogiBear

Only just saw this thread now. Love the first one as it is in the original post, v nice processing & composition.
3rd does look better cropped.
I like the processing on the foreground of the 2nd but I find the rest of the image too contrasty on exposure.. might look better if taken again but to an angle 45 deg / so that the lighthouse is more to the left (or right).
First one is great though, brilliant!

randomguy

Not sure about the 3rd, but really like the first 2. But would agree with the others about cropping so that subject not in centre - would be interesting to see first with the sky and only a bit of the rocks, and the second without the right-hand side and the top half of the clouds. But I like the colour in the rocks in the first as well, so i'm not sure.

Borderfox

Number 2 is really nice with what looks like rain on either side of the island

kgiller

These are taken from Ballycotton/Garryvoe/Shanagarry right? Lovely place.

#1 is my favourite too, nice colours and textures.
#2 is good, but i think it could do with something more interesting in the foreground than just the ricks there, or actually, just a slightly different composition maybe. I would try firstly cropping out some of the sky.
#3 as said already just lacks something special. I think maybe a larger picture of the mountain in the background would add to it. Taking a few shots and stitching them together to get a panoramic, with the whole mountain in the background, and then the boat in the forground would be nice.

Overall though, very nice. Lovely spot if anyone is in Cork. Good work

democrates

The new crop of the lighthouse pic has great detail.
The blue on the sky is ok, but reflected in the pools looks over-saturated for me.

If you masked off the sky roughly (you can cut into the grass and rock which won't be affected) and process the blue channel for the sky separately to the blue channel for the lower half (select..invert or whatever it is in PS) it might be even better.

The one with the island in the distance could be cropped to 3/4 height, retain the rain on the left third and brightness in the rest below a bit of the hovering cumulus (or whatever it is). On a large print more detail of the island is there for the person if they want to stand closer.
Not sure about the spit of land to the right which draws my eye without much of a reward, you could crop more or copy and paste from the adjacent area to eliminate it and see if it looks better or worse.

Overall well done, you got into good positions there.

Edit:
#2 with the island another crop possibility which I've just tried out in a Gimp screenshot (and not saved):
See the bright gap between the sea and the cloud, take the same distance of cloud above and sea below so you've three equal horizontal layers. Now look at the centre layer which can also be divided in three vertically. The bright area can make up the centre and right third of the image with the island at the exact centre of those two thirds (so the spit of land and more is gone), and then crop the left so that the rain shower is the left third (half the width of the bright area). Possibly desaturate all colours but blue and green. Not sure what color border to frame it with if you make a large print, but I'm thinking it would look great on a wall.

kmart6

1st pic is great IMO!

dakar

Thanks for posting these up for C&C Morrisseeee, I know I threw my 2c in earlier, but I'm very interested in other peoples' take on them.

Morrisseeee

No prob, Dakar.
I was very interested aswell, and I would like to thank everybody for their feedback/contribution.

TheNorthBank

I prefer the uncropped version of #1 the best. I love the angle its taken from. Good work.