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Glimpse of summer
Glimpse of summer
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Challenge: Landscape III (Expert Editing*)
Camera: Canon EOS-350D Rebel XT
Lens: Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 II
Location: Lake Alcova
Date: Apr 14, 2007
Aperture: F5.6
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/200
Galleries: Landscape, Nature
Date Uploaded: Apr 15, 2007

 I tend to like to "frame" landscape shots, so when I saw this interesting cedar tree along the road high above Lake Alcova I could resist using it. Cropped it in a little from the original plus minor adjustments to levels, saturation and sharpening. Oh and had to dodge a bit of overly bright tree trunk.

Statistics
Place: 263 out of 308
Avg (all users): 4.8992
Avg (commenters): 5.7143
Avg (participants): 4.7033
Avg (non-participants): 5.0060
Views since voting: 643
Views during voting: 351
Votes: 258
Comments: 8
Favorites: 0

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 04/30/2007 05:33:22 AM
Greetings from the Critique Club :)

I did vote in this challenge and sorry, I was one of the people who gave this a score of 4, that means to me that it was below average but not horrible. There are a couple of things that would make this particular photo better in my opinion. First off, the out of focus branches are just distracting, I would opt for a smaller aperture to fix that problem. Secondly, the parts of the image that are in the sun are a bit too bright, the correct exposure according to the sunny 16 rule (send me a PM if you have never heard of it and I´ll try to explain it) is if you want to stay with the 1/200 shutterspeed f11 so it´s two stops too bright. The areas in the shadows would then be too dark of course so to get the best results you would have to take two photos and stitch them together to get both areas correctly exposed.

I also can´t really find any main subject, I mean the scene is nice but there is no spot in the picture that really draws the eye so mine wanders all over the frame.

I do like the framing of the landscape and I really encourage you to keep that aspect and work more with it since you like it.

Kind regards from Iceland, Larus.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
04/24/2007 08:46:32 AM
Good job framing your scene, but the branches along the top are quite blurry. Normally this wouldn't bee too bad, but the branches in the top-right tend to dominate the image more than they should. Good colour in the water.
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 04/23/2007 04:50:10 PM
Not too interesting. Nice photo but seems like an ordinary landscape shot. 3
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 04/22/2007 08:08:02 AM
I like how you're "peeking" through the rocks and tree. to 'glimpse summer'
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 04/21/2007 07:58:38 PM
a nice calming shot you can almost feel the cool breezes in the shade while the sun bakes the surrounding landscape. you've chosen a difficult shot lighting wise and i would have gone for a more correct exposure on the sand in the midground and made the forground trees more of a suilette. nice shot 6
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 04/21/2007 07:08:17 AM
The title does not lie.
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 04/20/2007 07:38:21 PM
might have been a good effect if the fore-tree was more in focus, and the colors a bit more vibrant...
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 04/20/2007 02:53:39 PM
Nice framing, but not very sharp
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