Two in a square format from Southern Utah red rock country. One not-square format photo from a California desert location.
Sadly, t subject of the first photograph no longer exists, from what I have heard. The second was photographed somewhere in Capitol Reef N.P.
(I cross-posted in the Canon forum since these were done with a variety of Canon 5-series bodies and EF L-series lenses. Indeed, I’m still using the 5DsR and those lenses, though this will likely change before too much longer.)
junglialoh wrote:
So lovely like painted work by masterpiece
Thank you.
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dakel wrote:
Love #3 Dan. It's beautiful.
Thanks. #3 was a last minute addition here. My original idea was to just post two square images, but as I worked on the third one its subject seemed to fit with the other two.
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Jeffrey wrote:
Lovely group of images. While I never crop to any pre-formatted aspect ratio, I do enjoying seeing images in the square shape.
I don’t do many square format photographs, but every so often it seems to be the right choice.
I do tend to stick a a small set of aspect ratios — 4:3, 16:9, 1:1, and 3:2… probably in that order of frequency. I stick to these for a couple of reasons, one aesthetic and the other practical. I do now generally “see” in those formats. The only time I don’t is with a very small number of extra-wide pianos and/or tremendously big images for a few clients. (One image ended up as a 4’ x 18’ panorama — yes, feet inches — and as a 11’ x 30’ wall-filling image. The practical reason, which fortunately doesn’t conflict with the aesthetic for me, is that this reduces the stock of mounting/framing materials that I have to keep on hand!
All three are beautiful, Dan. Interesting choice of shallower DOF to render the blurred background on the third. It takes the image just that little bit further into abstraction by extraction from the environment, which I really like in this case (contrasted with the second image, where the more detailed background works well in its own context).
JWRisinger wrote:
All three are beautiful, Dan. Interesting choice of shallower DOF to render the blurred background on the third. It takes the image just that little bit further into abstraction by extraction from the environment, which I really like in this case (contrasted with the second image, where the more detailed background works well in its own context).
Thanks.
While I don’t use shallow DOF very often in my landscape photography (my street photography is a different story!) it is useful sometimes, and this was one of those times. I really did not want a detailed view of what lay beyond the plants since that wasn’t very interesting. Though I did want to coloration of that background since its warmer tones contrast with the cooler tones of the plants.
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ambushy wrote:
A painterly and abstract view of the world, thanks for sharing!
