Snowy panos

[robert]

Been a while since i got out and took some photos but managed to go for a snowshoeing trip a week ago. Last time i didnt take my DSLR and regretted it. This time i still regretted having to carry around just the 5d II and 24-70 due to the weight, but the enjoyment of wandering around phogotgraphing such a lovely place when the pack was off was worth it. Most of the photos were nothing special but these few stitched panos i quite like- hence the need for feedback to see where i could improve. Composition, lacking point of focus, oversaturation etc- let me know. All were taken just below guthega- on way out and on way back.

thanks for any ideas on imporvements (ps dont be afraid to suggest recomposing as i will be back there again sometime)









Robert

[darklightphotography]

Love the first one. Great composition and colours. The second and third not so much, mainly because the stream is broken up into bits, it takes away the leading line.

[Geoff M]

I guess it started to snow between taking the second and third shots, going by the snow covered boulders.

I prefer the first two images here with the second taking the winners medal. The lower viewpoint works better IMHO.

[aim54x]

These look great! I would love to see some monochrome conversion...and also IR (how is the 350D going?)

[ozimax]

Awesome images. Love the colour, wide composition and of course, the snow.

[biggerry]

good to see you back here.

hence the need for feedback to see where i could improve. Composition, lacking point of focus, oversaturation etc- let me know.

The first image feels like two separate images, one on the left of teh stream and teh one on the right of the tree, i found cropping it from the right (15%) made a marked difference to how the eye flowed thru the image.

The second image is the pick for me, however i think you really need to tweak that white balance/colour temperature, it feels way too cold seriously though, below is a quick edit.

[Mj]

yep... #2 for me... it's not Always critical to have single point of focus... and this image shows that.
I think Gerry's colour balance adjustment is certainly an improvement.
Also... and hard to just with a small image... the sharpening might be a touch aggressive. The full size image might be fine.

[biggerry]

the sharpening might be a touch aggressive.

[surenj]

#2 and #3 for me. I think making the water completely blurred would be advantageous in these. [despite the cliche]

[Murray Foote]

I agree that #2 works best. I think next time it might be an idea to bracket, just get a bit of detail in the snow. You could do this either manually or with an HDR program, provided you can get a non-HDR look with such a program.

[robert]

Thanks for all the positive comments, really encouraging as i feel I'm stalling a bit in my progression as a photog.(prob cos not doing it enough!)

darklightphotography- i get your point about lead in lines and am hoping the first has that "looking in" feel when I print it (when i get over my printer problems!!!! cant get rid of magenta cast on old epson r1800)

cam- thanks- havent used the IR at all in the last 12 mths- i guess baby number 3 (now 10mths) will do that to you! hopefully have abit more spare time soon.

GeoffM- yes it did snow between shots, the first were on the way out for a couple nights snowshoeing and tenting and the 3rd is on the way back a few days later.

Did tweak the WB gerry thanks for that, not sure about the crop- i think that's why #2 is a more conventional photo and hoping the extended RHS on #1 will look ok and not like a de-fished UWA shot or too disjointed. i am hoping it works when printed.

Murray- The snow is blown but not sure how much detail i couldve got- some other shots show some nice sparkles but on these occasions there was little direct sunlight for that. I've not got a lot of expereince with HDR and some of them are 5 shots stitched so prob beyong me to do hdr stitching!

Suren- even though we were pulling sleds i still didnt put the tripod in- might be worth it next time.

thanks guys- now going to sort my printer......