What’s Your Preference?

AngeloDefensor · #1 (**permalink**) 10-04-2011, 10:58 AM

Please help me improve my landscape photography. I would like to thank you in advance your comments and help. I want to ask how is my composition, sharpness and the lighting.

HDR with 3 different exposures. EXIF DATA is not showing in the flickr page. Anyway, I got it from my camera.
EXIF DATA:
Manual Settings:
ISO 100
Shutter speed 1/100
Aperture f/13
Focal length 24mm
No flash
Handheld
Time of the day: 10am
WB automatic
Raw

Krusty79 · #2 (**permalink**) 10-04-2011, 05:32 PM

The exposure and B&W conversion look really good. The thing I don't get about this image is the subject. I'm not sure if it's supposed to be the light poles or the walkway. It's also a little disorienting to me to see the light pole vertical and the walkway at an angle.

AngeloDefensor · #3 (**permalink**) 10-04-2011, 06:25 PM

Krusty thanks for your time in commenting, my subject there was the dome on the lower third but do you think the poles are distracting it?

Krusty79 · #4 (**permalink**) 10-04-2011, 06:39 PM

Yes, for me at least. The first pole is so prominent, it keeps my attention.

AngeloDefensor · #5 (**permalink**) 10-04-2011, 06:45 PM

Shall i try cropping it? And level the pathway?

shruggy63 · #6 (**permalink**) 10-04-2011, 06:54 PM

I don't want to put words into Krusty's mouth but he may not be aware of the Wembley arch's iconic status? I have to agree with him that the picture's really good but the slope across the Wembley Way is a bit extreme. I'd like to see what a filter/distort/lens correction in Photoshop would do? With maybe a bit of image rotation necessary afterwards. As it is though it's a v. nice graphic image!

Krusty79 · #7 (**permalink**) 10-04-2011, 07:25 PM

@shruggy - you are right about my lack of knowledge about the arch.

@AngeloDefensor - you could try the crop and rotate, or see if your software has a distortion correction function. I'm afraid that if you crop the light pole, you'll lose a lot of the dramatic sky.

AngeloDefensor · #8 (**permalink**) 10-04-2011, 07:55 PM

yah Ive tried cropping it and then the image sacrificed its dramatic sky, I think I will just leave the whole picture and try to shoot another time with different angle.