G'day!
Thanks to John And Tim for your kind comments. They are most informative. Here are the rest of the series Blue Mountains, Fall 2005
johneric8 wrote:
The first shot is a little too dark for this type of landscape to be effective.
The second shot too much sky not enough scenic landscape.
I have about 26 shots to choose from 
I agree about the dark but I think that was the best I could do without blowing out the sun much. But here are all 26 to browse through. No editing on them done apart from a slight levels and saturation done by BreezeBrowser.
The third shot not too bad but confused on what the focus point is. Needs less sky once again and tighter shot on the center focus point.
Of course the focus was the old vase But I tried to get foreground element in with flowers. At the end the result was the above shot. Here is another shot with slightly oversaturated greens
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Fourth shot is my favoirite. Once again, your love for the sky shows. I dont know if it's good or bad. I just dont see the need for the extra bit of sky up top. Try showing more of the statues butt and less sky..
Funnily that the only shot I took from that angle No pun intended. Just about everything did not go right for that one. The gallery openned at 10am (which was 11am if you take into account daylight saving which took place the night before). The sun was up high and casting real harsh shadows. The metering between the sky and most statues was in the range of +2 stops which made it extremely difficult for my lowly G2 (can't blame lack of experience on the equipment).
Then my 420EX which I though to use for fill-flash decided to run out of batteries despite the fact I could have sworn that I did not take more that perhaps 50 shots with the 4xAA which were there 
May have to go back and reshoot it.
fifth pic is the best. But, needs a little more color seperation to make pop. I like it though good composition
any more info on color separation and what you mean by that? Here is another shot of it in landscape.
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In general what is the best in your opinion to frame these landscape shots? I tend to keep my composition simple mostly relying on Rule of Thirds. Hence I try to keep horizon either to bottom or top 1/3 of each frame. I guess thats the reason you see a lot of sky cause I tend not like a lot of ground elements. But ocassionally I seem to find that 50/50 split works well for me like in the following shot
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Thanks again for time and effort
Regards,
Flagpole
