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P25 150mm Mamiya UYUNI Bolivia June 2010
THe top two images have some surreal potential but I think you need to work the scene a bit more (if possible). There must be other compositions possible. In that top image the moon's just a bit too high (perhaps 10 deg) to be a worthwhile element. The second image has a nice arrangement of natural forms that complement each other but the scene feels cropped and cramped. Also , there's more of that uninteresting white ground than really services the image, and that shadow (?) nearly bisects your frame. A lower camera position --on the ground-- would have solved those problems. The top two images also appear too blue and perhaps a bit underexposed (due to the white ground?).
Isn't it disappointing to see photographic scenes that, you thought, featured a spectacular moon only to find it as just a small spot? (The moon's size to your eye, when it's low, is a natural illusion.) I'm not a landscape snapper but, for the past few years, have tried to avoid placing a moon in an image, preferring instead to capture its unusual light.
So is this the infamous salt flat for which you wanted to lift the camera?
That's the big point of giving this stuff a try at all, isn't it. You can't drag a mate and kids along for any serious photo work. Better to just enjoy the travel experience and not become obsessively boorish about the snaps. There'll be years for that after the kids forget your name.I have to say that this is not the image I came here to get but that I enjoyed doing it...
Infinite nothingness is pretty much the same until you get much, much higher. (At which point you get...alot more infinite nothingness.)
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Ken,
But here we do not have infinite nothingness. There's the texture of the ground. (I can, of course, add lots of other things in my mind.) The higher one is, the more foreground one can see the structure of, If, in the extreme, one shot from 6 " off the ground, all the foreground would be imaged compressed in one thin layer. So yes, getting up 15 or 20 feet high is a good idea. Even better is to have a T/S lens!
Asher
Ken Tanaka said:You can't drag a mate and kids along for any serious photo work. Better to just enjoy the travel experience and not become obsessively boorish about the snaps. There'll be years for that after the kids forget your name.