Church Spire in the Mist

Following the sucess of my Mist in the Wye Valley picture I thought I had better post another shot from same days shoot, sorry but I put other one in wrong section (you can find it in next section still life etc.)
http://www.photography​-on-the.net/forum/showthre​ad.php?t=119993

working with a mono pod and 300mm f 2.8 IS lens on a 1Dmk2. set at 400 iso
and trying to get some grain/noise intentionally, always seems to work well with this type of shot.
see what you think and compare to my other, please let me know.

Martin (Huckaback Photo)

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One more Mist picture again shot in the Wye Valley.

Martin (Huckaback Photo)
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Actually I just as well post my first one here for you all to compare them.
this one has already won a competition for me. only shot about 3 weeks ago.
enjoy...

Martin

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Martin, Three beautiful shots which have been well thought out - I love the compositon of the first and the last - and the juxtaposition of the Light and Dark on the second is very dramatic - good shooting

Cheers David
you were quick off the mark with a comment ,
much appreciated.

Martin

David
I just had a look at some of images on your site. simply wonderful.
the sunset at smiddyshaw res. a great shot. the Tern in flight and those puffins just magic.
congrats, keep up the good work.
Martin

Thanks Martin

I'm just a beginner in this photo thing, but these pix (esp. 1 & 3) remind me of Japanese/Chinese paintings, just fantastic. Hope I'll be 1/10 as good as you and I'll be happy.

Excellent work all.
I really like the spire.
I also like the one from the other post. I can see why it took the prize.
How long did you have to wait arond to get these shots?

The third one is spot on! Amazing! I would crop out some of the fog that's in the lower part of the firts picture. Not much though...

The 1st and 3rd and wonderful. I love the contrast. You've captured the fog wonderfully. The second shot is good, but just doesn't have the same drama as the other two.

KAC

Paul from Hawaii
I thank you for the kind remarks about my pictures.

I can see what you were thinking about the chinese art,

I also note it was your very first post on this forum,
so welcome to you and hope you enjoy discovering what its all about.
lots happen on here, loads of information and quite often if there is something you need to know the answer is already here. just use the search facility.
I'm sure you also have some great landscape shots from where you live.
please share some with us.

Martin (Huckaback Photo)

Suedezu
Thankyou glad you like my work, yes I also prefer the third one but no 1 is also a strong image.

Cheers
Martin (Huckaback Photo)

Kenny
I know what you meen about the second shot, it does not come over as strong on screen, however there is quite a lot of fine detail in central area of shot , now when this is viewed on a large print it seems so much better.

thankyou for your nice comments.

Martin (Huckaback Photo)

Excellent photos Martin.