One of the many lakes of the Eduardo Avaroa reserve in Bolivia.

[thestranger]

Hi everyone,
Looking back on last year, although this photo is a massive deviation from my normal style, I keep coming back to it as it always takes me right back to that day of the tour we took in and around the salt flats .
Feedback and critique always appreciated!
Thanks,
Rowan

 

[doggel]

That is a beautiful wild landscape image- glorious delicate light, lovely composition, lots of interest, great depth of field, and overall a delight to the eye.

 

[viv1969]

That is a beautiful wild landscape image- glorious delicate light, lovely composition, lots of interest, great depth of field, and overall a delight to the eye.

Have to agree with this.
There's real beauty in what seems like a desolate place, and the llama (?) is perfectly placed in the shot.
Thanks for posting...it's good to see these far away places

 

[thestranger]

That is a beautiful wild landscape image- glorious delicate light, lovely composition, lots of interest, great depth of field, and overall a delight to the eye.

Have to agree with this.
There's real beauty in what seems like a desolate place, and the llama (?) is perfectly placed in the shot.
Thanks for posting...it's good to see these far away places

Thank you so much for your kind words! It certainly was quite desolate, but at least there was some vegetation unlike some of the more martian landscapes we encountered on the tour.

PS: It's a vicuña, just imagine a less dopey-looking, elegant llama

 

[jerry12953]

I agree with the above. It's lovely. Have you thought of cropping it to a letterbox format?

 

[Scirocco_09]

It's technically good and a nice enough view but I wonder if there's more you can do to focus attention - maybe try a portrait crop if you have enough resolution:

Very quick edit, probably not optimal positioning or ratio:

*Not sure why this isn't displaying without clicking it - image shows in Preview

 

[moomike]

Very nice shot! Agree with Jerrys idea of maybe trying a letterbox crop rather than the portrait one as, in my opinion, I feel the vicuna needs a bit more space to walk into. Very nicely balanced exposure & depth of field

 

[viv1969]

I'm not keen on the re-crop.
It loses all the sense of vastness that the original has.

 

[thestranger]

I'm not keen on the re-crop.
It loses all the sense of vastness that the original has.

I agree with this, by doing a letter box crop you lose some of the layering present in the image and by doing a portrait crop you reduce the sense of scale and vastness in the photo (as you mention.)

 

[doggel]

I'm not keen on the re-crop.
It loses all the sense of vastness that the original has.

That long mountain range in the background is an essential ingredient of the composition IMO

 

[Kodiak Qc]

Very quick edit, probably not optimal positioning or ratio:

It all depends on the final use of it but this crop is good.

In my operations, I would propose the picture as posted and let the AD
decide hor to use it. I heard too often "Do you have…" vertical or horizon-
talk or higher res or else just because I was to eager to crop.

That long mountain range in the background is an essential ingredient of the composition IMO

+1

 

[davholla]

Apologies for hijacking an old thread - but any advice on going to Boliva.

Don't recrop it - it looksgreat.