Critique More Lake Vyrnwy

[droopsnoot]

Going on from robmac's photo of the tower at Lake Vyrnwy, I took these two a few years ago.



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What I'm really looking for is someone to point me towards why neither of these images are quite as "good" as Rob's image, and where I can concentrate my efforts on trying to improve. These are both taken handheld, I actually don't recall if there was a filter fitted or not, and if there was it would just have been a polariser. I'm struggling to put my finger on exactly what I don't think is quite a good, there's just something about the clarity and colour of the tower in Rob's photo that I don't get in mine.

 

[sirch]

I can't help but I find I have exactly the same struggle with so many of my landscape shots, I'm very interested to hear what others say.

 

[AJQS]

It's all about the light, the first one isn't so bad though, it's got a lovely gentle feel to it.

 

[robmac]

Tripod and a release is a must really.filters are expensive and I don't really do much of this type of togging so I paid 11 quid for my 77mm 10 stop filter.think it was around 30 second exposure and then playing around with photoshop CC.
I like both images but the first is my favourite.must go back there with my 500mm....never considered it for landscapes tbh!

 

[droopsnoot]

Thanks all, I'll have to pop over again when I have time. They're both on my Tamron 70-300 zoom, the second one was actually just a quick shot to be made into a panorama.