A couple from last weekend in the dales.....

[janet Smith]

Last Saturday we spent the day walking on the hill tops above Malham, it's very awkward walking over the limestone, you step on a stone and it tips or rocks, put your foot onto what looks like solid ground and it's just a bit of grass covering a hollow beneath and your leg disappears into a hole! we managed to get off without accident (thankfully).

Anyway these are a couple from the day taken above Malham Cove

I think these work in black and white, do you?

 

[Cedric MASSOULIER]

Hi Janet,

First, B&W is here a good choice, it serves very well this mineral landscape which becomes more than a simple landscape.

Second, i think that 1st pic is really a damned good one : you chose a vertical framing, which is original due to the context, and this frame drives our eyes from the hard and dark stones of the bottom to the slender silhouette of this tree at the top. A beautiful elevation for our mind too. Composition is so very dynamical and strengthened both by b&w and wide-angle which gives an impression of infinity. Bravo.

Cedric

 

[janet Smith]

Composition is so very dynamical and strengthened both by b&w and wide-angle which gives an impression of infinity

Hi Cedric

Thank you for your comments, very much appreciated and I'm really pleased that you like them. My favourite is also the first one, it was a precarious and prickly walk down through a field full of hip high thistles onto the limestone pavement, so I'm glad it was worth climbing over walls and getting prickled for! I'll probably try again for some at sunset in the next few days.

 

[Asher Kelman]

Janet Smith Limestone above Malham​

Hi Janet,

... i think that 1st pic is really a damned good one : you chose a vertical framing, which is original due to the context, and this frame drives our eyes from the hard and dark stones of the bottom to the slender silhouette of this tree at the top. A beautiful elevation for our mind too. Composition is so very dynamical and strengthened both by b&w and wide-angle which gives an impression of infinity. Bravo.

Cedric

Cedric,

It's so helpful to see your impression of the vertical composition and value of the wide angle here. This is a fine observation aand enrcihes my appreciation of Janet's fine work.

Janet,

I admire this rockscape; rather biblical I think. Still, I wonder whether it might be strengthened by having the tree either centered in the width of the image or to one side. Near the center is a small issue for me.

Asher

 

[Mike Shimwell]

Hi Janet

My stamping ground Thuogh I've not walked around Malham Cove for a fwe years now. I too like the dynamic of the first picture, though the second may be more impressive printed larger - the 5D2 should pull a lot of detail from the cliffs ahead.

I like Black and white up here - it removes the influence of the green, which lovely in reality tends to leave photos looking bland. Perhaps we simply cannot print the beauty and subtlety of reality...

Mike

 

[janet Smith]

Still, I wonder whether it might be strengthened by having the tree either centered in the width of the image or to one side. Near the center is a small issue for me

Hi Asher

Thanks for your comments Asher, I have several other variations, but preferred this one because of the rocks leading into the foreground, leading the eye back to the tree, I have others where the tree is off center, I may post some of them later.....

 

[janet Smith]

I too like the dynamic of the first picture, though the second may be more impressive printed larger - the 5D2 should pull a lot of detail from the cliffs ahead

Hi Mike

Thank you for your thoughts, yes Malham is really suited to b&w with all the grey rocks everywhere. Yes again you're spot on, there is wonderful detail in the rocks on the cliffs, in fact I took some for pano's which look wonderful, but would need to be printed very large, it was late afternoon and the sun was coming low, picking out all the detail in the rocks. I think it's the best time to go up there, when the sun's low and a lot of the tourists have gone.....

 

[Mike Shimwell]

it was late afternoon and the sun was coming low, picking out all the detail in the rocks. I think it's the best time to go up there, when the sun's low and a lot of the tourists have gone.....

I couldn't agree more - the later light emphasises the texture that noon light suppresses, and it does get very busy at peak times.

I once camped up there aiming to see the annual Pleiedes meteor shower. Sadly, the night was fog and rain bound, so we had to simplyenjoy each other's company and a couple of pints of ale

Mike

Edited to add - I don't know if you ever got a big printer, but I'm hapy to print if you need, as you're local it removes a lot of the problems...

M

 

[janet Smith]

I once camped up there aiming to see the annual Pleiedes meteor shower. Sadly, the night was fog and rain bound, so we had to simplyenjoy each other's company and a couple of pints of ale

Mike

Edited to add - I don't know if you ever got a big printer, but I'm hapy to print if you need, as you're local it removes a lot of the problems...

Hi Mike

We often enjoy a drink or two at the pub in Malham, Paul says their Guinness and Old Peculiar are really good

Thank you again for your very kind offer of printing for me, if I decide to print it i'll be in touch, at the moment I'm thinking about having some canvas prints made of some flower shots for my 'office' (sitting area off the kitchen!)

Have a good weekend

 

[ErikJonas]

Critique

I hate giving a Critique cause i'm just not good at it...As well i strongly feel a good image is a good image and with your posted images thats what we have here nothing really to Critique.Very nice black an whites,a pleasure to view them.......Erik....

 

[janet Smith]

Very nice black an whites,a pleasure to view them.......Erik....

Hi Erik

I'm glad you like them, I often find it difficult to evaluate my own work, I was unsure about the black and white conversion of these two, nice to know that they seem to be well received. Thank you for taking the time to comment, I appreciate it.....