Helicopter delivers plant food to the avocado trees in the neighbor's yard, flying lower than our house. Does it once every month or so, and he just happened to fly by during the transportation challenge, so I had to snap him!
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Ok, I'm going to try my hand at offering some praise for a good capture, and some critical comments to help you along in your photography!
Composition, colour and contrast:
Like many of the commentors, I think this is a great capture, with good colours on the helicopter, but its so small in comparison to the landscape, that it almost gets lost. I take your point that the mist is interesting, but whatever its impacted, its overshadowed by the vastness around the helicopter. I think a crop of most of what is above the helicopter and maybe even a bit of the green trees below would vastly improve your composition and also pick up on the contrasting colours, as you mentioned. :)
Speaking of contrast, I think a little action in post processing to take that slight white cast off everything(which might just be a brightness/contrast issue anyway) and boost the contrast might have helped as well.
focus and lighting:
The focus seems to be on the helicopter, where it ought to be, and there are no harsh shadows, so I'd say it came around at the right time of day for you! :)
overall:
I think you caught a very interesting and action filled picture, and with a few adjustments to the colours and a nice crop, you've got something great! :)
Thanks for the comments, folks! I had one that I'd cropped in MUCH closer, and it was a lot brighter that way, but I thought the way the helicopter stood out with the mist was somehow more interesting. Also, when it was cropped closer, it was just a helicopter and not a dramatic crop-duster flying over a neighborhood and waking everyone up.
I must agree with y'all, though, that it doesn't work very well as a photograph in a general sense. Ah, next week, perhaps! :)
All right, but not very strongly anything in particular. Helicopter is nice and sharp, but the rest of it's misty/blurry/hard to make out, and the cropping/composition makes the landscape the real star. Given that, the landscape should be easier to see ...
this is a nice image, it just seems like there is too much open space surrounding the helicopter, i may have tried to crop it to get a better image, otherwise nicely done 4
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