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G'day,

Was playing with an image taken in NZ, was just a nice backdrop and saw the scene, but think I stuffed up by trying to get the shot and not spending enough time composing more carefully. The camera needs to be higher and a little left in frame, maybe it needs cropping etc...

Now that I look at the small jpeg, it looks like I could dodge a bit in the foreground interest area too... Looks different from the large one with detail, hmmm...

Anyway, I'm keen on the image content and interpreted one way, but not sure if it works or not, need some tips or critique to give me some ideas as to which way to go with the cropping, just thought it'd be interesting to play if you want... Not long on the PP, probably 15 mins...

Fire away!

Cheers.
PP'ed version and EXIF: F16, ISO200, 1/50th, man exp, 12-24 nikkor@12mm


Orig raw from cam if you're interested...
http://mudder.smugmug.com/photos/55144789-L.jpg

Its a diffcult one, but here is my opinion.

I would crop out the green hill to the left and frame it as a pano since you have a pano camera on tripod on the side.

I would also use the nikcolor graduated blue filter for the sky and use the warmth and brillance filter for the tusics and rocks in the foreground.

straightened your horizon, then distored the image with free distort to do this
then crop edge of mountain lining up with hill on the left to edge of tripod foot to the right, it's more compact now
brightened and colour balance
hope this helps



nice pano or wide angle camera, whoose and what is it?

G'day,

Nice cropping, like it... Pano crop suits it and good link to the camera too, thanks, good idea... Looking at the little jpeg makes me think I need to bring out more detail in the foreground scene and camera details...

The camera's a 5x17 (I think) pano job, can't remember the brand ( ) but it's Tom's. Tom was our guide and runs the workshops (which have all been a ball!), he'll throttle me for not remembering but I've had a couple of stubbies, so I'm excused

Takes a magic image though, it's breathtaking to view a scene through the eye-piece, I'm jealous, the large prints you can do as the detail is stunning, but film and and 4 shots to the roll! I've been surprised as to how much high quality scans are now, which makes me appreciate the advantages of digital.

I'll crop and play a bit more with smoother dodge/burn etc...