My Stroll In English Countryside

[Tin-Cup]

I went out for a leisurely stroll tonight and this is what i saw...













i thought you might like to see them, they are better quality than that at full res

[ChaosCubed]

That really makes me miss England.

Great shots, I like the last one!

[Pumpkin]

Your pictures are so beautiful. I have never been to England but pictures like those make me want to jump on a plane right now!

[Tin-Cup]

Your pictures are so beautiful. I have never been to England but pictures like those make me want to jump on a plane right now!

haha thanks for the great feedback, unfortunately not all of england is like that but your very welcome if you want to come... just stay away from the north ;)

[gahspidy]

I like the third shot best , the one of the road leading out. Lots of depth created there which I like. The one with the tree, I think you have centered the tree to dead on in the center creating an unmoving so to speak composition. I like the church and it's steeple in the first shot and think you could really use that subject for more shots. As that one stands, there is too much space around and not much of that building in view. It looks like it would have great potential for future shots. Keep it up. . .

[Tin-Cup]

I like the third shot best , the one of the road leading out. Lots of depth created there which I like. The one with the tree, I think you have centered the tree to dead on in the center creating an unmoving so to speak composition. I like the church and it's steeple in the first shot and think you could really use that subject for more shots. As that one stands, there is too much space around and not much of that building in view. It looks like it would have great potential for future shots. Keep it up. . .

in regards to the tree shot... i took the picture the way you described it as i also thought that would have been the best way but when i got it home it was obvious to me that it NEEDED cropping (i dont normal crop that heavy). as for the church i have about 10 or 20 shots still to sort through i just love the contrast on that shot with the dark dark green grass against the vibrant green grass and that one half og the church tower is in the suns path and the other is in shadow...

thanks for your kind words of critique, and if i find a shot of the church more to your own taste i will post it on here

thanks again

[villenadecorte]

I truly like the 1st and third shots best. I think the 1st could stand a crop and possibly be shot from a different angle.
I think they are all great, but those two are really my favorite.

Vd

[SmartWombat]

Top one, I keep wanting to straighten the world
I think it's because of the wide angle, but the church appeard to be leaning right.
The field boundary sloping left to right doesn't help, it all feels as it the camera isn't level.
Even though I think it really was level !
I would want to shoot this again angled up a bit. More of the tree framing the shot against the sky, and avoid that dark shadow on the grass in the foreground.


Second one I get an impression of a greenish cast, even though you've got that low golden evening light. Is this a scan of a print, and the print isn't right? I get that with the local 24 hour lab sometimes, particularly in low light photos where they seem not to allow shadows to print properly.

I like the third shot best. But to me the road ends too central, I find it's missing something. But I don't know quite what you could do apart from not quite shoot it from where you stood. A bit to the right perhaps? Again I get a slight feeling of things leaning to the right, looking at the slightly off vertical of the power pole juet left of centre, and the slightly non-horizontal road surface in the distance. But it could just be my eyesight - I do tend to write vertical lines like \ so maybe it's me!


Fourth shot, the tree, I find too square, too centred, and there aren't any real shadows. Again it looks like the kind of flat image I get from Boots where the processing kind of averages everything. Maybe it can be just reprinted, rescanned or something to darken it because the sky looks blown out, the shadows aren't deep and it has lost a lot of its impact. You have got some lovely light there to play with and I suspect this isn't doing your image justice.

Fifth shot, it's difficult to put aside my personal taste - I don't like that kind of shot into the sun where the flare dominates the photo. Again I get the feeling of things running left to right, just a sort of bias in the angles of everything leading my eye out of the picture and away form the bright light, with nothing to bring it back.

I agree with Villanedecorte, #1 and #3 are the ones I like best.

[Tin-Cup]

Top one, I keep wanting to straighten the world
I think it's because of the wide angle, but the church appeard to be leaning right.
The field boundary sloping left to right doesn't help, it all feels as it the camera isn't level.
Even though I think it really was level !
I would want to shoot this again angled up a bit. More of the tree framing the shot against the sky, and avoid that dark shadow on the grass in the foreground.


Second one I get an impression of a greenish cast, even though you've got that low golden evening light. Is this a scan of a print, and the print isn't right? I get that with the local 24 hour lab sometimes, particularly in low light photos where they seem not to allow shadows to print properly.

I like the third shot best. But to me the road ends too central, I find it's missing something. But I don't know quite what you could do apart from not quite shoot it from where you stood. A bit to the right perhaps? Again I get a slight feeling of things leaning to the right, looking at the slightly off vertical of the power pole juet left of centre, and the slightly non-horizontal road surface in the distance. But it could just be my eyesight - I do tend to write vertical lines like \ so maybe it's me!


Fourth shot, the tree, I find too square, too centred, and there aren't any real shadows. Again it looks like the kind of flat image I get from Boots where the processing kind of averages everything. Maybe it can be just reprinted, rescanned or something to darken it because the sky looks blown out, the shadows aren't deep and it has lost a lot of its impact. You have got some lovely light there to play with and I suspect this isn't doing your image justice.

Fifth shot, it's difficult to put aside my personal taste - I don't like that kind of shot into the sun where the flare dominates the photo. Again I get the feeling of things running left to right, just a sort of bias in the angles of everything leading my eye out of the picture and away form the bright light, with nothing to bring it back.

I agree with Villanedecorte, #1 and #3 are the ones I like best.

great critique thanks.....let me just explain a few of those point

photo 1

Critique =world not stright dark green shadow


explained = i had that straighten the world feeling (so i did in pshop) but you right the camera was level and it was the world that was at a slant...it was also bugging me
however i disagree about the dark green shadow i think it contrasts against the vibrant green.. all a matter of taste i think

photo 2

critique = greenish cast

explain = correct again ;) ive also edited that in photo shop to bring the golden colour/color back into that hay... i also sorted the pixelated shy out, so that photo looks really nice and finished now, im not sure why it came out like that...maybe some wrong tweaking in ps before posting (all sorted now though)


photo 3

critique = maybe shot from wrong angle, leaning slightly

explained = i took about 10 shots trying to get that right and that looks the best shot as for the leaning thing must be your eyes because i think it leans to much to the left??



photo 4


critique tree to central and sky blown out

explain = yeah the sky was like ice white when i took it... im sure i could do something with it... but feel no real need although i have cropped it less in the finished version
but overall your right - although i was in the car saw it plulled over and snapped couldnt find it again if i tried..not one for my hall of fame ;)

photo 5

critique angle bias and dislike of sun flare


explained = you said you found your eye wandering away with nothing to bring it back, some people (not me) can just look at the sun flare and be content and really like the effect... i think its nice... but not my best.....


thanks for an unbiased and honest critique,.. really great.. thanks

[ginsberg]

Its a pleasing photo and leaves one feeling calm. Two quick observations, it tilts slightly to the right. This can easily be fixed with a program like photo shop. And two, you placed the church and church steeple in a very interesting place. The steeple, in this position, becomes another tree, which I think shows the church as part of the environment.

Ed