Damon foord
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this is my first submited picture please critisise as you see fit.
iso 200 - f/18 - 18mm - 1/125 sec
iso 200 - f/18 - 18mm - 1/125 sec
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Asher Kelman
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Damon,
What a captivating scene to start on! This gets out attention immediately. I give feedback, however, I would greatly appreciate knowing, "What was in your mind when you approached making this picture?".
Dis you make and global or local changes when you prepared it for posting? Are there other pictures to go with this?
This will help me place my own ideas in proper context in relation to your own intent. A picture can of course can be considered on it's own. However, since you are going to be here and showing more images, it's more respectful to find out what you value.
Asher
What a captivating scene to start on! This gets out attention immediately. I give feedback, however, I would greatly appreciate knowing, "What was in your mind when you approached making this picture?".
Dis you make and global or local changes when you prepared it for posting? Are there other pictures to go with this?
This will help me place my own ideas in proper context in relation to your own intent. A picture can of course can be considered on it's own. However, since you are going to be here and showing more images, it's more respectful to find out what you value.
Asher
Damon foord
New member
Thanks Asher.
I was just out walking with the wife when I took this. Its a place me and my friends used to hang out when we were teenagers. None of us knew the history of the place until just recently when they made it a nature reserve. The hill in the background is called Horrid Hill, so named because prison hulks used to dock there in the napolionic wars. there was also a gallows there. I wanted to capture it but also give an impression of what surrounds it so I took this from the causeway which leads out to it.
I color corrected it using lightroom 3 and used a graduated filter on the sky to give it some definition.
I was just out walking with the wife when I took this. Its a place me and my friends used to hang out when we were teenagers. None of us knew the history of the place until just recently when they made it a nature reserve. The hill in the background is called Horrid Hill, so named because prison hulks used to dock there in the napolionic wars. there was also a gallows there. I wanted to capture it but also give an impression of what surrounds it so I took this from the causeway which leads out to it.
I color corrected it using lightroom 3 and used a graduated filter on the sky to give it some definition.
Asher Kelman
OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
Thanks for the insight into the scene. I think there are 3 ways of looking at this.
Asher
- First, as you have shown, with this ultrawide angle view, we are forced to go forward between the pried open halves of a clam shell, above the curves compressed dramatic sky and below the wide expanse of marshy islands of grass and still waters. The pressure of the extraordinary demand for attention from above and below leaves little chance of resting to give attention to where they meet.
- Next we could remove all the sky, save the lowest 1" and suddenly, it's more peaceful. Don't worry, the top 2.3 of the clouds are overly dramatic and loud. The shout. The beautiful cloud below is fine and less is more. The ground moves us to the horizon and we are fascinated with the apparent homestead, farm or other structures that wait to be explored. This creates a drama for us. "What might it be? "How would we get there?, "Do they fish? "What goes on in those buildings?" and more. This I think is the very best choice.
- Alternatively we can crop away all but 1 1/2 inches of the foreground below thew horizon and
have that thin edge of civilization below the sky be considered under the dominant demanding heavens.
Asher
Damon foord
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Wow Asher thats made me look at it in a different way. I may have over done it with the gradiant filter, I'll tone it down a bit.
Thanks for the input.
Thanks for the input.
Martin Evans
New member
Hello Damon,
A very dramatic photo of an estuarine salt-marsh. It does evoke the lonely bleakness of these places - a bleakness that can also be beautiful at times. Maybe the sky is a bit too dramatic, as Asher suggests?
You mentioned the Napoleonic PoW hulks, so I wondered if it was the River Medway. I had this in mind, having been on a group tour of Chatham Historic Dockyard a couple of weeks ago. So I googled 'Horrid Hill' and sure enough it came up with a link to Gillingham, on the mouth of the Medway. There is another photo of the marsh, in misty weather, at: http://www.panoramio.com/photo/25093322
So the location is in England. I don't think one ever gets English skies with such colour intensity. My wife came to look over my shoulder and immediately commented that if the clouds and sky were so contrasty, one would expect to see more evidence of it in the reflections on the water, even though the surface is not quite mirror-like. So that betrays the enchancement of the sky saturation. I think that you might have overdone that a bit.
With that reservation, I liked the lonely feel to this place. Only the modern buildings on the distant horizon remind one that it is only a few miles from London and its satellite towns. But then, I like photos without people in them - see my comments in the discussion of my recent submission to this forum at the end of June!
Best wishes. Martin.
A very dramatic photo of an estuarine salt-marsh. It does evoke the lonely bleakness of these places - a bleakness that can also be beautiful at times. Maybe the sky is a bit too dramatic, as Asher suggests?
You mentioned the Napoleonic PoW hulks, so I wondered if it was the River Medway. I had this in mind, having been on a group tour of Chatham Historic Dockyard a couple of weeks ago. So I googled 'Horrid Hill' and sure enough it came up with a link to Gillingham, on the mouth of the Medway. There is another photo of the marsh, in misty weather, at: http://www.panoramio.com/photo/25093322
So the location is in England. I don't think one ever gets English skies with such colour intensity. My wife came to look over my shoulder and immediately commented that if the clouds and sky were so contrasty, one would expect to see more evidence of it in the reflections on the water, even though the surface is not quite mirror-like. So that betrays the enchancement of the sky saturation. I think that you might have overdone that a bit.
With that reservation, I liked the lonely feel to this place. Only the modern buildings on the distant horizon remind one that it is only a few miles from London and its satellite towns. But then, I like photos without people in them - see my comments in the discussion of my recent submission to this forum at the end of June!
Best wishes. Martin.
Damon foord
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thanks martin I agree I did over do it with the gradient filter by quite a bit and will tone it down when i get 5 mins. And yes if you were in chatham horrid hill is just around the corner. If you look at the picture you linked to, up in the top left you can see the corner of horrid hill, so my pic was taken about 100m right of that position.
Asher Kelman
OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
Damon,
It's good to see how you might now consider this photograph. Looking forward to seeing your new presentations.
Asher