Remembering Victoria

[Geoff]

Hi all,

I was recently re-visiting a few photos from a trip I took down to Victoria a few years ago.
Here's two shots I quite liked.
The first, taken at sunset at the Twelve Apostles, at sunset:



And then somewhere in country Victoria, after a rain storm with more cloud looking threatening:

[zafra52]

Geoff, that first photo is sensational. I like the colours and composition very much.
The second one, I am not sure. Has it got too much foreground or too much sky?

[Geoff]

Thanks Zaf...I just did a trial crop of the second one, and I prefer it the way it is. I'd be keen to hear others thoughts though

[gstark]

Both are great images; love 'em.

For the second, try a crop from the bottom, cropping at the point where the edges of the road meet the sides of the image: those points should now become the bottom corners of the image.

[ozimax]

Both are sensational. Actually, I think several of the apostles have died...

[biggerry]

For the second, try a crop from the bottom, cropping at the point where the edges of the road meet the sides of the image: those points should now become the bottom corners of the image.

The reason this works is because without the crop the eye gets stuck on that big portion of white road line, with the crop the line is less prominent and allows the brain/eye to connect to the edges which then send you flying into the vanishing point and subsequently floundering around the clouds in a photographic bliss

[bigsarg7]

Lovely photographs. I personally really like the second image. However, I do agree a crop could make the image pop all the more. I cropped it on my screen with a piece of card at the reflector posts, and it looked great, would be interested to see a real crop of it to that level and to see it with and without the reflectors to see if its better with them in or not.

Overall lovely shots, its all about the lighting.

[Matt. K]

Second image could do with something in the foreground. Road kill perhaps. Dead parrot.

[gstark]

Road kill perhaps. Dead parrot.

That parrot's resting.