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the path took them to a golden fieldthe ground was warm and they shared it -
they made love beneath the wind
and the wheaten gold of that field
by ~kastelov
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This is a nice piece of work with a good use of a narrow depth of field to isolate the subject matter in the foreground. Good stuff, without doubt.
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Stunning... Poppies are my favorite flowers!!
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wow, i luv the comp and the viewpoint, also the colours are awesome. brilliant job
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I like the warm lighting and the crispness of the poppies. The red blossoms stand out nice against the yellowish brown background.
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I think that's excellent. I like the composition, i like the warm lighting on the flower and I think I do like the choice of depth of field too. I would like to see one with a deeper field just to compare, but this is a fine shot regardless.
You'd have a fun time cloning out the cables if they were in focus too
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I was very hesitant about my liking of the depth of field. On one hand, the foreground is obviously what you want to stand out (I remember a really good photographer saying that the foreground is the most important part of a landscape photo). On the other hand, it's such a contrast to the colours behind it, and stands taller than it (in the photo's perspective at least), that it would stand out just as well had the out-of-focus-area not been as pronounced. Did you happen to take another shot with a smaller aperture?
Though I would still prefer a slower aperture, it's a really well composed photo, and I definitely like the out of focus buds that are closer to the camera than the main flowers.
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finally some critical and though helpful comment...as i look at your gallery, i see that you've got the point to talk about how to take landscape pictures...your's are perfect...ok could be that the blur in the background is a bit too much...hm...let's see i'm going to take another one when I come to this place again with a higher aperture, let's see what comes out! thanks for advise, i really need comments like that!
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Mine are far from perfect, I have a long way to go.
But I'm glad my comment helped you.
Re-shooting a scene is a tricky endeavour. I never re-shoot the same place in the same way, nor should I. The way I look at things in life changes daily, and conditions are rarely the same.
You're the same way.
Like in your Sky High photo:
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vs Sky High 2:
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It was the same subject (conditions obviously different), but you shot it in an entirely different way.
Like many things in life work, I believe people get better and better at photography over time from both a technical standpoint, as well as composition-wise. When I look at my galery and weed out a photo I don't like as much as others in the gallery, it's always the one I took furthest from today's date.
Photography is also something that can be worked on when you don't have a camera. You can imagine places you've been to before and how you'd compose a photo of them, or walk through a place entirely new to you and say to yourself "If I had a camera with me, I'd pull out this lens and compose a photo this way with this and this in the photo and not this."
On a technical note, a lot of your photos (not just this one) seem like they would benefit from a higher number aperture. It also makes lenses perform better (but don't go too high). I usually try to shoot with a tripod and have an aperture of between f8-f16.
Your photos also seem like they should be sharpened (in photoshop, Filter>Sharpen>Unsharp Mask).
Here is a decent tutorial on using Unsharp Mask:
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hey i tried higher aperture now, i'm uploading it right now. Take a look and tell me what you think. It's not the same picture, you were right there, but it's similar. This time i used f/10, so let's see what you think of it. I don't know how to put links, but it's called "...and Summer is coming". Check it out!
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hey
sorry
i went to europe so i'm replying back over 3 months later
i don't like the new one as much as the other... but it's okay
you've taken some really great photos over the summer
keep it up
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This is amazing, love it, great photography
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