Landscape photography practice

[nito]

I am pretty new to photography. Only recieved the D70 during Feb 2005 and havent really share many of my shots for the year.

I've learnt heaps here at the forum and over the net and hopefully able to produce some shots that are decent enough to share. Anyway here are some photo's of NZ.

Critiques and suggests are welcomed since it will improve my skills.

[Killakoala]

You've certainly found the picturesque part of NZ. Those mountains are amazing and look great with all that snow on them.

Choice cuz.

[leek]

Nito,
I love the first two and the last mountain shot...
In terms of critique, all I can offer at this time of the morning is:
River: would probably have looked better from a lower viewpoint
Seagull : tail cropped
Castle : slightly tilted

You did well to capture the detail in the snow without blowing the highlight - You might want to play around with the whitepoint of the images though as some of the snow seems to have a blue tint...

[marcotrov]

Some beautiful images here Nito. I would probably add with the castle scene to have moved a little more to the right to have th road feature more prominently as a leading line.

The last the sign shot is simply stated and well exposed. The only comment as per the castle slightly off square. If you use the Invercargill/Mt Cook direction board as guide you can probably see what I mean. With a subject matter with just one elelment the notion of balance and symmetry arte really highlighted I would probably even playing around with a little saturation and graduates gray filter to make the clouds a little more moody, just a thought though, it's your image after all
Generally very good but ditto with Leek. The mountain scenes are really well exposed and awsome images
cheers
marco

[nito]

Thanks for the comments guys.

Leek, you are dead right about the castle being sloped and require a fix. Its suprise that when you are going through so many pictures because of the fact that NZ is such a beautiful country, you miss these things.

marcotrov, yep, the sign needs more moody clouds.

[Alpha_7]

Some lovely shots, having not really seen snow in all its glory, seeing mounts covered in the stuff is great, looks fanstastic and I assume must be a little tricky to get the exposure right ?

[MATT]

These are very beautiful shots, You have done well I believe.

I think the greatest benifit to Landscapes is actually being there.

Thanks for sharing

MATT