Wonderful DOF of field on these, Ben.
First is nice. Not sure about the ideal crop but I dont think the 50/50 horizon split works to add anything.
For the others, I feel more contained in the meadow, enveloped by the wildflowers, esp in 3 and 4. It evokes many pleasant feelings and is added by the more pano crops and more on top, in the sky. 3 is my favorite. A beauty. Second feels like you are trying too include too much. Greens might be a bit too saturated but overall the colors feel realistic and the sky seems right.
BTW, I suspect your camera is level, knowing that precision is your goal and forte. But I wonder about a slightly less tilted meadow for aesthetics.
Scott
Thanks Scott, I really appreciate the feedback. After watching the tutorial Karen posted, the one thing I am not doing is tilting my camera. I could have used the 17TSE here, but I have trouble focusing so I reach for an AF lens first.
But it occurs to me that the TSE only allows moving up or down while keeping it level. If I tilt the camera, I get perspective issues again. ( I know these images do not really have any). But I need to experiment and maybe tilting the camera compresses the height and allows getting all the elements in with a different horizon.
On the first, I never even thought about the centered horizon, I never see them unless I force myself to look for them. It was early and I was just getting myself adjusted to the scenes. The rest were taken from the far edge of that field in the first but looking toward the camera position of the first..
On 2, I only included it here as cropped because of that pink cloud upper right. I have a hard time losing precious color.
3 is also my favorite and I often crop to 16x9, in fact I have a few frames that take 16x9 aspect.
I only show 4 because it had a bit more color. But the story of course is the meadow. I was here (nearby) 5 nights back and had a moose walk though my scene. I got a sunset then too, but the flowers were pretty scant. I may show that shot another time.
I have some less tilted meadows from another day. Same scene as the first. I will add it here. Tell me what you think.
Edit, I just reread this and I think you meant to level the meadow line (raise it on the right side). I thought you meant tilt the lens downward to change change the perceived slope of the meadow.
Thanks Ben; created a tutorial on how to create Gursky's at link below (for the field, I just used a gradient instead of the horizontal blur technique). Of course, I had to split the sky (should have tried better w/ making the sky more varied) and flower field running Resynthesizer yet again to heal the transparent boundary when I merged the too.
Thanks, so resynthesizer is a plug-in? Or is it a stand alone? I am probably too much of a realist to do this but I do appreciate you taking the time to render my images and show me some alternatives. Always feel free to modify any image I post.
Thanks Ben. Resynthesizer is a GIMP plugin that you have to download separately since it does not come pre-packaged with GIMP. It's only recently been upgraded (a little faster) but still is way too slow (took, I would say, around 10 minutes to render the lillies in your case). Still, beats cloning/merging my 1000 miles. lol
If you have GIMP and Python installed (believe the newest versions of GIMP includes Python finally), you can get Resynthesizer from link below (original Resynthesizer does not require Python and it still works by the way; I keep both versions since the original, though even slower, does a better job at seamless merging for certain types of results).
I like the one with the moose off in the distance. It is a subtle addition to the landscape, but it pulls my eye in a great way. Great pics. Thanks for sharing
