Landscape: Ohio

I stink at landscapes so give me some help guys, please.

http://i122.photobucket.com/albums/o...adowMedium.jpg

In my humble opinion, all landscapes need a point of interest.
The shadow cutting across the field isn't helping but you got some good rich green here.

Trust me, A Landscape Photographer in Ohio, Theres not much Landscape to Photograph. I mean you've got the fields and stuff, Lake Erie, but thats really it.

As far as your picture goes, it lacks a foreground, other than that, the colors are very nice.

tyson, what it needs is something....horses, cows, ufo's, anything...to keep it from being commonplace. But the colors here are gorgeous and that is a picture perfect sky.
Where's a unicorn when you need one? This pic is a perfect background for something.

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Originally Posted by Frog

In my humble opinion, all landscapes need a point of interest.
The shadow cutting across the field isn't helping but you got some good rich green here.

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I live across the road from this field, I took the shot because of the shadow. I thought it looked neat.

I wish I lived across the road from a field like that. I like the shadow too, it offers a darker color of green to break up the sea of green.

Tyson,

Such a large amount of shadow in the foreground is not recommended for landscapes, In fact it would be better if we could see more of the trees so that it increased the depth in the picture.

Looking at this there is a small hollow with trees/bushes growing in it. That could be a good location to get a nice landscape from; so the hollow becomes the foreground and the trees and ridge line become the background with the sky.

I do like the lines forming the V from the bottom right, however there is nothing at the top of the V for the eye to grab onto, if that makes sense.

The angle into the foreground is also a little high, looking into the bowl rather than across which compresses the view, with landscapes you need to be lower to get the sense of distance.

This does look a little compressed, what lens were you using? Normally for landscapes I normally use between 24 and 100mm lens very rarely do I go above 50mm, otherwise you start loosing depth in the photo. I am looking at getting a 12-24 for landscapes which will give me even more scope for landscapes.

Hope my ramblings help.

Roger

I like it because it looks somehow artificial. Regarding the shadow, I think it gives it a three dimensional feeling. If I concentrate my view to the centre where the little dark spots are and stare a bit, the photo comes out like an adventure.
The only thing I would have improved is the clowd in the left corner. I wish it was complete and not only half on the photo.
However, I am not a professional photographer but an art consumer :)

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Originally Posted by Tel

Trust me, A Landscape Photographer in Ohio, Theres not much Landscape to Photograph. I mean you've got the fields and stuff, Lake Erie, but thats really it.

As far as your picture goes, it lacks a foreground, other than that, the colors are very nice.

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Unfortunately, landscapes and Ohio are not very synonymous (I can say that because I live here too). I agree with the others of not having a prominient main subject. I can imagine it was a spectacular day - but converting a 3D scene into a 2D image usually requires a strong main subject around which the scene can be wrapped.

As for UFO's - hey anything's possible in Ohio! Fields of buffalo (or is it bison?) are not unusual either.