Here you go Mark, here's all the comments for you from both threads
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theMusicman:
I like the pic Mark, and I appreciate we all want to protect our work,
but that awful watermark slap in the center of the image is... and I mean it... really awful!
Can I suggest placing it on the bottom of the image?
Steep:
It's ok, I might be tempted to crop the top down to just above the trees.
Lukey:
I agree with what's been said about the watermark!
Now about the image, I like this, the foreground interest is nice,
but I'm not sure on the colours sorry, they just seem a bit dull, but maybe thats me.:shrug:
BRASH:
I like it but maybe needs to be wider than it is higher to give more of a landscape appearance.
deanlewis:
I like the shot, but for me it would have more impact with the brighter top 3rd cropped.
Alex S:
The foreground interest is a good start.
I might have tried getting down a bit lower so that the log lead the eye into the picture a little more.
There also seems to be a funny ghosting effect running across the tree line,
maybe this is consequence of you removng the above mentioned watermark, not sure.
In my (very limited) experience I've found the best way to learn what works is to take both portrait and landscape shots from various levels; standing, kneeling and sometimes even lying on the floor!
LCDs on the back of cameras are brilliant,
but you can never be absolutely sure you've nailed the shot until you get them loaded onto a computer.
Hope some of this was helpful.
andyt70:
i like the portrait orientation of it, to me the focus point appears to be the tree branches at the top, and everything else appears just a little soft, but that may be my monitor.
i also agree with Alex S above, i rarely shoot any shot from eye level - thats were everything is viewed from normally - go looking for different angles
DiddyDave:
Sorry for the delay in coming back to you - had to go out for a bit
Mucked about on a laptop, so not too sure of the colours etc.
Part of the problem with the image is the viewer not being sure of what to look at.
For me, there's too much boring sky and the branches don't aid the composition, they just confuse it
Then, as you appear to have been stood up at the time there's too much space (separation) between the branch on the floor and the trees in the background - so I took a bit out to give you an idea of how a different view would look in foreshortening the gap
Lastly, I mucked about a bit with the levels & saturation, and put a simple border around it
- any picture worth showing is worth a border IMHO
HTH? :shrug:
STEEP:
That's the shot!
gwh:
The crop is much better.
Be careful with your focal point,
with landscapes i find should be a third into the frame and an aperture of f16 or above.
Use a tripod , nd or nd grads and a pol whatever makes the shot at the time,
most of all take your time framing the shot walk a few paces either way and see what works best.
A shot that works in the camera will always work with software. hope this helps
yours gwh.
DiddyDave:
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I don't agree with this bit m8 - issues of sharpness (acuity) arise after f11 in most lenses,
so yes you get more DoF but at the cost of sharpness
A shot like this I'd have done at f8-11 but at the lower end of my 12-24mm,
so everything would have been in focus anyway.
f22 is only for 'desperate' measures IMO
There ... thats everything you'd lost Mark, hope that makes amends