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03/16/2005 09:43:07 PM |
From the critique club:
My finish in this challenge did not do well. Beset with double vision I was unable to travel and so I did my shot around the corner from where I lived. My mistake was to present a 9th zone study. Too much of any zone, except 5 is boring. However, I took an image similar to yours and discarded it because of the snow in the front. The white is so stark that it creates an inteference with the rest of the view. It is better to reduce this white foreground more because the eye tires quickly.
The first piece of advise is that when shooting such a vast amount of real estate is to close the aperture. By employing say f 16 you then select to focus right at where the snow ends. You may also try for some of the bushes. Several foreground targets are available in this image and bringing back images with different focal targets makes the selection easier.
You must understand that this image is difficult to capture because of the stark white which occupies zones 9+. Your exposure gave the snow or 9th zone the preference because i see a lot of texture. Now, this will have the tendency to lose detail and clarity in the 4 and lower zones.
The white snow will tend to hog the metering sensor. So lets say, the reading is f 9.5 at 1/180. I know I need a smaller aperture. Go on aperture priority and move the f 9.5 to f 16. This reduces the speed accordinly in steps. Now, once at f16, say the speed is 1/50 I will then consider using 1/25 and 1/15. Of course you will need a tripod. It is this concept that rules the zone system. If you want to shoot for the snow, you did it. If you want to shoot for the darker areas then you need to over expose.
Outside of the focus the image is nice and well composed. Remember that scenes like these require a deep dof and that dof increases the more you close your lens.
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03/13/2005 10:01:57 AM |
| Nice compositon...just not sharp enough. |
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03/13/2005 09:28:02 AM |
| I like the bands that make up this image. It's a bit like a flag... mid-gray band at the top, darker gray band at the middle, and whitish at the bottom. The snow looks blown out to me, which is unfortunate. |
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03/13/2005 07:12:57 AM |
| I think that the tree on the right is a bit intrusive, as is the line along the bottom. |
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03/11/2005 04:13:07 PM |
| A lower point of view might have worked better. There is just so much white! Its hard to get pictures with snow on the ground. My focus is drawn to the white in the middle but its too far away to see. Maybe zooming in would have worked. A lot of potential... |
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03/10/2005 06:28:58 PM |
| If this was my picture, I would have cropped about half of the forground out and used a gradient on the sky. My eyes can not lock in on any area from left to center ot right. Also Adams eused about 11 tones in his pictures going from white to black. The blacks and the whites dominate your picture. Best to you |
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03/10/2005 05:28:36 PM |
| Nice shot. Lacks foreground interest. |
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03/10/2005 06:27:49 AM |
| This photo does not do it for me. There is not enough character in the snow to warrent putting that much of the picture as snow at the bottom, The trees are interesting, the valley below is interesting, 4 |
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03/08/2005 11:22:19 AM |
| The indistinguishable line at the bottom is distracting. |
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03/07/2005 04:08:21 PM |
| i like it nice depth of field wish I could see a larger version |
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03/07/2005 10:29:06 AM |
| The image looks too plain, if you had been closer to the tree on the right that you cropped out (or maybe left out) the depth of field would have been there... |
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03/07/2005 09:26:20 AM |
| Lacks composition and attentionpoint for my opinion. |
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