English Wine

Despite the grey mist that fell, I decided to try my hand with the camera in low light to increase my landscape photography experience tonight.
And so I present to you probably the vines of the most famous English wine producer [If their leaflets are to be believed] ... my thinking on this one is that the vines are empty [as it's Feb] and the bleak weather with a lone tree in the centre of the filed sum up to me waht British wine producing must be like.
I've not executed the capture as well as i'd hoped, and now see that I should have my tripod with me... "focus on the tree of the first vine?" was the one question i did ask myself while taking the picture.
All comments other than camera shake welcome

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It's a nice shot. It definitely evokes a feeling; cold, bare, and forbidding in a sense.

It would have been interesting to see two versions of the photo. One with the foreground in sharp focus/tree blurred, and the other with the tree in sharp focus and foreground blurred.

Still, the image is a keeper IMO.

I looked at it earlier and really wanted to like this picture, but there's something that bothered me about it. Anyway I just came back and had another look at it and I think it must be the two posts in the foreground. I think that part of me wants to follow the leading lines towards the the tree, and anoter part wants to come back and look at the posts in the foreground..

Anyway, that's a very long winded way of saying that I think you should try cropping the first two posts and running the wire up to the edge of the frame.

Big_B wrote:
I looked at it earlier and really wanted to like this picture, but there's something that bothered me about it. Anyway I just came back and had another look at it and I think it must be the two posts in the foreground. I think that part of me wants to follow the leading lines towards the the tree, and anoter part wants to come back and look at the posts in the foreground..

Anyway, that's a very long winded way of saying that I think you should try cropping the first two posts and running the wire up to the edge of the frame.

I agree...............cr​op it and let us have another look.

I like it the way it is. I think the first two posts should stay. I wish they could have been a little more in focus, but you can't do anything about that now. I think it's a very nice shot.

Thanks for the comments on this picture... I think that it is worth revisiting on the next misty evening, mainly to take the tripod with me, but also for teh focus on tree / focus on the first vines aspect... and finally in the hope that the house in the backgrouns hasn't lit up next time.

The posts... I had originally thought that these would make an interesting foreground part to the picture [I'm learning landscapes and thought you needed foreground interest] ... but i've cropped it out and reposted, and i think it makes the image a lot cleaner and states more about what i think i was trying to convey... thanks for the suggestion. I still like the posts, but at present prefer the image idea as a picture without them... but it needs the levels of the wires tweeekd for when i return as it now appears a little of balance

Mikey

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