Landscape Critique

[deeslk]

Looking for some critique on these photos, please and thanks.

[HappySnapper90]

I don't consider this to be a landscape as you put it, but a photo of a building. The very out of focus vegetation at the left and right don't help this photo. And that being said it lacks any foreground to draw the eye through the photo.

[Winston Deckard]

Ok, so that's not a landscape for me, either. Anyway, as a picture of a building I clearly prefer the second version as the first one is a bit too dark for my liking.

Regarding the out of focus vegetation, it doesn't bother me. In fact it does draw my eye more to the building and it makes up a little for the lack of foreground. I don't know if there were other options to use as foreground but if there weren't then this is better than just having the building in the picture.

If the point was showing the building then the shot serves its purpose. Otherwise, I don't see it as an artistic quality shot although it seems technically correct (the second one).

[deeslk]

Thanks, you are right it is just a shot of a building. I guess I am looking for more of a technical critique. I've read quite a bit at at sunrise when this was taken it says to meter the sky, but when I did that as you see the first shot seemed to me to be a little dark. Anyway thanks for the help, just trying to learn.

[rammy]

I've read quite a bit at at sunrise when this was taken it says to meter the sky, but when I did that as you see the first shot seemed to me to be a little dark.

That comment you read is probably for a sky that has scattered clouds and colour so that it is not blown out by metering for the dark ground. But even then you would need to compensate a little.

Here, the sky looks like it is covered in a blanket of cloud in the upper atmosphere and is kind of an overall light pinkish. The in camera meter is reducing the exposure to a mid tone (mid gray), as it built to do. So again, you have to compensate for what the meter is programmed to do.

Experience will let you know what you need to meter on in certain situations as I think that a general rule of thumb does not apply in most situations.

[[AP]Red]

Besides the metering issue, i think its a "time-of-day" thing. If you've seen architectural renderings of buildings you'll notice that the shadows do not represent dawn or dusk. More of a mid-morning or mid-afternoon light. I believe their purpose for this is to showcase the buildings many architectural features like eavelines, sill lines, columns, texture of materials and so on.

In these shots above, i dont see any real contrast or depth in the building. It looks flat, all gray light due to the early morning sun and/or another building blocking the direct light. Maybe a few hours later would've made this image pop. Its just my 2 cents...

Aloha,
John

[Bill Boehme]

Both of these images are the same shot with different post processing.