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MarkFairchild Registered: February 2012 Posts: 64	· Date: Sat February 18, 2012 · Views: 1050 · Filesize: 174.6kb, 1666.3kb · Dimensions: 1004 x 1500 ·
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kbirdd

Registered: October 2008
Posts: 595

Sat February 18, 2012 2:23pm

Interesting shot, good lines.

MarkFairchild

Registered: February 2012
Posts: 64

Sat February 18, 2012 9:39pm

Thanks kbirdd! I really like how it turned out.

richingr

Registered: October 2010
Posts: 1,511

Sun February 19, 2012 7:03am

What you need to do is study your shot and see why it works, all the lines work well in this shot you have straight lines angled lines and rectangular line mixed with good colours . Nice shot

MarkFairchild

Registered: February 2012
Posts: 64

Sun February 19, 2012 2:14pm

Until now I have been shooting on visual instinct. You are very right, I am now looking back at the stuff that has worked in the past year of shooting and seeing WHY things worked and trying to learn what to do and more importantly what didn't work and why. I am really enjoying putting more thought into making shots work as opposed to hoping that they work. Thank you for your input. Very appreciated!

Kev

Registered: February 2008
Posts: 2,722

Wed February 22, 2012 8:28am

The reason this shot works...is because you have included several different realms of interest. There is a variety of diagonal lines that draw the eye. There is image depth, and subject foreground, middle ground and background. Plus, the lighting adds a reasonable amount of shadow intrigue too.
The composition is good.
However, a polarizer would have produced a better overall balance tho...and also controlled the tendency to blowout in places.

MarkFairchild

Registered: February 2012
Posts: 64

Wed February 22, 2012 1:11pm

Thank you Kev! I have been using a polarizer lately to help with that problem. It seems to work really well. I am still in the clouds about a lot of exposure issues, but am working on those Smile

My big thing I can't seem to figure out is the digital (chunking or distortion) in my skies. The one I did of the five span bridge had a bunch of chunky distortion in the sky that I used a blur tool on to smooth over but I am looking to find out why I get it in the first place. Any help would be really helpful.

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