On a windy and chilly day, we opted to return to the somewhat sheltered trail near the arena. While a few trees had kept a few leaves, I was more attracted to this uphill view with the blue sky beyond and leaves on the ground, so I pulled out my phone.
After taking that shot, I thought I needed more sky since I was pointing upslope.
I think the second version works better as it also catches more verticality of the trees.
When I stoop down to get close to the ground, I invariably take a crooked image that I then must straighten in post. It was true for both photos but particularly the second where I got down a little lower than in the first photo. It is not an easy position for an old fella, and the result tends to be a little wonky. While I was able to straighten the picture in post, I also lost the tops of the trees.
Oh do be careful! Says this elder knowingly. The second photo is definitely more intimate...being up close and personal to that big tree, as well as having a bigger sky ratio to the ground!
ReplyDeleteGoing against the grain perhaps, but I like the composition of your top photo. I think too much blue sky when there are multicolored leaves everywhere tends to wash out the picture, at least in my perception. But any picture is better than no picture!
ReplyDeleteWhen I got my first Nikon DSLR in 2010, I more or less perfected a shooting method (mostly in cemeteries) that involved holding my camera down near my subject -- my eye nowhere near the viewfinder, because I could not physically get down there -- and moving my camera out until my lens zoomed a bit on its own, and then took the shot. I "wasted" a fair many shots that way but I got some amazing ones too, of tombstone details and whatnot, with great bokeh! It's my signature move, hahaha! I like your "more sky" version of this shot best but they're both great because you can't beat autumn leaves and a blue sky! xoxo
ReplyDeleteLovely photographs on a sunny day. Your editing sounds like mine, but your photos aren't as skewiff as mine to begin with, I suspect.
ReplyDeleteI like both but I like the first photo more. We are so dreary here a blue sky in both is wonderful to see.
ReplyDeleteYes, second version is favourite.
ReplyDeleteI agree that the added sky helps to emphasize the upward view. A very satisfying image to view.
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Also, regarding yesterday…. I have looked periodically since I first thought of trying to do an exchange with NWT or Nuanvat…. It does now appear there is at least one college (of a type we call in the US a “community college”) that offers two year associate type degrees. And what is interesting, if I am remembering correctly there is a physical campus, but most classes are with various sorts of remote feeds so many students study from very far away from main campus. If I remember correctly, there was a LPN (associate degree nurse) program that I might have been able to teach the “sciencey” aspects of the program. By the time I learned of it, at least 15 years had passed since my initial search.
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They both work, but the colour contrast in version 1 is pretty nice. And, yes, I crop my phone photos. I often cannot make the climb or hike to get the perfect position. My horizon in shots from our boat was always tipped. Always. Grrr.
ReplyDeleteLove that sky in the second one! I have to straighten almost every photo.
ReplyDeleteI love that second photo and you're right, the proportions are way better!
ReplyDeleteAlso jealous of that blue sky.
ReplyDeleteThere seems to be more sense of wonder in the first photo……I wonder what it’s like at the top, is it flat or downhill with a view and also……I wonder if my legs will carry me up that ‘hill’ without falling flat on my face
ReplyDeleteTo me there’s more to look at and enjoy in the first one - the contrast between the yellow & brown leaves, my eyes wandered up the hill from the large yellow one following the other ‘scattered’ ones past the twisted root on one tree as well glancing at the reluctant leaves still clinging while wondering about what I mentioned at the beginning of this long comment.
All that to say I preferred photo #1 to photo #2
At least you know that you have crooked images. I don't notice them until later.
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