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We travelled through the back roads of wine country recently and never one to miss a photographic opportunity managed a few images on the way...

Comments/Feedback/Critique always welcomed

It's just starting to be fall colour time so I was lucky enough to get some of the turning leaves. A nice compressed landscape with the 70-200.

Autumn Rows



We stopped at this winery for a picnic lunch - this was our view from where we ate... This was a nine shot bracket HDR'd and then converted to monochrome. I'm not entirely happy with this image and I'm not sure what - I like the skies but... Perhaps I'm suffering Marcus's fate with the winery and vines

Vines and Skies



On the way home we also visited this winery which had an amazing grove of autumn trees in a lovely courtyard outside the tasting rooms and I couldn't resist a couple handheld HDR brackets whilst we were there. The colour of the red leaves on the pebbled ground along with the bright golden, orange and green leaves on the trees was vibrant and incredible.

Rose Coloured Fall



Tea for Two

Just bumping because it vanished with the server crash - if anyone had already responded please feel free to do so again

and because it's got lots of HDR and wil polarise the audience

Rodney

#1 - big thumbs up - great use of perspective & lines (would be briulliant if there was something at the end of the road, but that's a nit pick). Greate colours too.

#3 - I like this despite the HDR of it if that makes any sense.

Other two are ho hum for me - #2 I just doesn't suit black and white - there's no interest there. #4 the composition bothers me - chop the top and the bottom to make a landscape shot and you have a winner

#3 is the stand out here for me... a nice colourful autumnal feel.
#1 is well executed and classic in style but (sorry) done to death... would put it on a poster or an advert with no second thought.
#2 lacks definition... might have been better in colour maybe.
#4 is a happy snap... nothing wrong with that (I've plenty).

#1 - needs another subject, whether it's a person or kangaroo to make it more interesting.

#2 - the clouds are a bit over done as it detracts from looking at the rest of details in the image

#3 - Probably the strongest out of the lot. Looks a bit like a Monet painting with the leaves on the ground.

Hi Rodney,

#1 - Consider a bit of croppage from the bottom...

As with others, I like numbers 1 and 3 best. The first would be stronger with some human interest, like a wine maker walking across.

stubbsy wrote:#1 - big thumbs up - great use of perspective & lines (would be briulliant if there was something at the end of the road, but that's a nit pick). Greate colours too.

Thanks Peter - yes - didn't have any of my kids with me when I too this one so I couldn't vene send one of them to run down the road for me

#3 - I like this despite the HDR of it if that makes any sense

It does - for me too

Mj wrote:#3 is the stand out here for me... a nice colourful autumnal feel.

Thanks Mj

#1 is well executed and classic in style but (sorry) done to death... would put it on a poster or an advert with no second thought.

All good and thanks for the honest feedback

#2 lacks definition... might have been better in colour maybe.

Yeah - don't know where I was going with #2 - I should have binned it at the start

PiroStitch wrote:#1 - needs another subject, whether it's a person or kangaroo to make it more interesting.

Thanks Piro - I was here twice on different days so I should have thought about that in the interim...

#3 - Probably the strongest out of the lot. Looks a bit like a Monet painting with the leaves on the ground.

Ha now thats the description to use... hmm Monet you say...

surenj wrote:#1 - Consider a bit of croppage from the bottom...

Thanks Suren

Reschsmooth wrote:As with others, I like numbers 1 and 3 best. The first would be stronger with some human interest, like a wine maker walking across.

They had goats off to the right the second day I was there