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TheoP
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Registered: December 2009
Location: London UK
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Tue, 12, January, 2010 9:05pm
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Really good tonal range, and I think cropping was a good idea. GJ
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Rob Archer
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Registered: September 2008
Location: Kings Lynn, Norfolk - flatlands and big skies.
Posts: 1,248
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Tue, 12, January, 2010 9:06pm
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Dramatic image, Vincent. I like the way the 'kissing' rocks are echoes by the distant mountains and by the clouds.
Your images just whet my apetite for a trip to the west of Ireland one day!
Rob
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Les McLean
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Registered: September 2008
Location: North Northumberland
Posts: 383
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Wed, 13, January, 2010 11:06am
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I think you have a very strong image here Vincent. In addition to the "kiss" I can see a strong profile of a face in the right rock. Perhaps a little more manipulation will help emphasise the stronger elements of the image. For example, you tell us you have cropped the top of the image to emphasise the clouds but I don't think you have taken it far enough. By burning in the very top of the sky to a zone 3 or 4 tone you will strengthen the imapct of the cloud. Local burning in of the white area of the cloud using grade 5 only will introduce some detail in the cloud and at the same time slightly darken it which I think will be a huge improvement. Finally, burning in the grass below the rock will further strengthen the whole image.
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vincent
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Registered: December 2008
Location: Co. Kildare Ireland
Posts: 876
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Wed, 13, January, 2010 8:39pm
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To TheoP : Thanks for your comments, after reading Les I think that I will try to do a little more work on it.
To Rob : Connemara in the West of Ireland is indeed a photographer's paradise and well worth a trip. Thanks for your comments.
To Les : Your comments have me planning my next session in the darkroom already. I will be aiming for a blacker sky and a darker foreground. I have yet to try local burning in with a different filter so I'll be happy to try that.
I see that you are snowed in, hope you don't get up to any mischief and go easy on that whiskey it might have to last you a long time.
Thanks again for your comments.
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Vincent - Not afraid of the dark
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CarlRadford
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Registered: October 2008
Location: Just outside of Glasgow
Posts: 227
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Wed, 13, January, 2010 9:24pm
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For me this would take a crop near enough to square.
I am not sure of the scale of the foreground rocks but I would also have like to have seen the foreground rocks slightly lower than the mountains behind as I feel we have lost some of the sense of scale?
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pentaxpete
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Registered: February 2009
Location: Brentwood, Essex UK
Posts: 390
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Thu, 14, January, 2010 7:41pm
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I think it is very good as it is -- the white Cumulus cloud is a brilliant white as it would be in nature and there is good detail in the foreground rock.
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vincent
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Registered: December 2008
Location: Co. Kildare Ireland
Posts: 876
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Thu, 14, January, 2010 8:23pm
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Thank you Carl & Pete for your comments. When I print it next I will be going for a square format. Carl that's an interesting take you have on the positioning of the rocks against the mountains in the background. It is a vertical 35 mm shot and that is why I cropped out the top of the sky. If I was to shoot it again my instinct would be to take the shot with a lower viewpoint in order to move the rocks further up into the sky. In this kind of shot I always aim to tie in the lower portion of the image with the upper.
I can't say I remember exactly the location but if I happen upon it again you have given me an alternative approach to shooting it.
Thanks once again for your comments.
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Vincent - Not afraid of the dark
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CarlRadford
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Registered: October 2008
Location: Just outside of Glasgow
Posts: 227
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Fri, 15, January, 2010 5:09pm
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Vincent - I would agree if this were a tree of some such as it tends to hold the hole thing together. Here though I the rock breaking the skyline detracts from the scale and mass. Again, these are just my thoughts and if I were there I could well have came to the same decision as you!
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vincent
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Registered: December 2008
Location: Co. Kildare Ireland
Posts: 876
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Fri, 15, January, 2010 9:21pm
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Thanks again Carl, I much appreciate your comments. I think this is what the lads were hoping for when they renamed this gallery - exchange of comments with no rankle. I will certainly be looking for the opportunity to try out your approach when next I'm out shooting.
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Vincent - Not afraid of the dark
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B&W Neil
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Registered: October 2008
Location: West Cornwall
Posts: 4,265
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Sat, 16, January, 2010 3:06pm
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I am quite fond of a lot of sky and a small strip of landscape at the bottom provided each element is strong. In this case I think they are. OK it bucks the trend a bit but it is nice to see someone having a go at a different type of arrangement rather than going for the more conventional. Fine as it is for me - well done Vincent.
Neil.
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"The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance." Aristotle
Neil Souch
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vincent
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Registered: December 2008
Location: Co. Kildare Ireland
Posts: 876
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Sun, 17, January, 2010 2:12pm
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Thanks for your comments Neil, it is a shot I rather like myself. But I think that I will try to print it as Les suggests and see how I feel about it.
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B&W Neil
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Registered: October 2008
Location: West Cornwall
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Sun, 17, January, 2010 7:13pm
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I have just said this to Theo ! Have a look at them side by side and make your decision :-)
Neil.
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"The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance." Aristotle
Neil Souch
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