Compositionally you could've framed it better, getting the house on the intersection of the lowest horizontal grid line with the rightmost vertical grid line.
Allowing at the same a little more sky, balancing the image at a 2/3rds land 1/3rd sky distribution.
Color-wise your oranges, reds and greens are a bit over-saturated.
The lighting is kinda flat, you could play with dodge & burn layers to create an "artificial sidelight" look.
Subject & foreground/background interest-wise it's kinda uninteresting.
I guess you'll have other photos from the same place/excursion that are better.
Actually this was the best shot I could get; I was on a public bus and it was impossible tell the bus driver to stop so that I could take a composited frame, haha. Unfortunately I have no more than a 350D (lack of dynamic range, you know) and my kit lens, beacuse my old 50mm was full of fungi and got broken. *sigh*
I did my best to improve the image, because the original file was 'flatter' than this (if only you knew...). Besides, this is my first landscape photography!
You should've mentioned that it was taken on the move before Aldo!
Considering that you shot it on the move from a bus it's a pretty good attempt, especially for your first landscape.
As you probably know already, landscape photography requires a lot of "ideal" things to happen and takes a lot of dedication and patience ( well, just like most if not all photography kinds ).
If you really like landscape photography you should start spending more time and try finding some plenty-hours gaps for your excursions/trips for landscape photography.
ToD ( Time of Day ) is a very important factor, the lighting changes with time, with the most interesting lighting being sidelight and... backlit ( the sun in the background, inside or outside the frame ). Front lit ( the sun behind you and the camera ) usually gives a flat light, and top lighting ( midday ) gives an even worse outcome :D
The usual suspects in landscape photography time-wise are of course... sunset & sunrise, and the time before and after those ( dusk, blue hour, dawn, misty time ) which are usually referred to as "Golden hours".
Unless... you have an overcast sky, where the rules simply... seize to exist and conditions barely vary, making the "golden hours" worthless ( most of the times ).
Of course, to capture the scene the best, you need to be using a tripod and being stable, not moving at all.
Ideally you should first scout your location, find your angles, tweaking your composition/s, and then wait with everything set ( focused and locked, filters (if any) on, etc ) until the "unique" moment of lighting comes and then... CLICK!
Once you get accustomed to the various compositions and ToD and styles for landscape photography it is time to delve into exposure blending, focus stacking, luminosity masks, and "advanced dodging & burning" ).
I agree with Bill and Lee...but there maybe a way to make this image much better. My suggestions are.
1. remove the structures using software tools.
2. convert to B&W
3. enhance the shapes of the hills with contrast and luminance adjustments
4. crop to an 8 x 10 vertical to reduce the sky and foreground
the image becomes more of a line and shape study than a landscape.....but such images can be nice.
attached I took some libertes on a screen capture of your image.
Compositionally you could've framed it better, getting the house on the intersection of the lowest horizontal grid line with the rightmost vertical grid line.
Allowing at the same a little more sky, balancing the image at a 2/3rds land 1/3rd sky distribution.
Color-wise your oranges, reds and greens are a bit over-saturated.
The lighting is kinda flat, you could play with dodge & burn layers to create an "artificial sidelight" look.
Subject & foreground/background interest-wise it's kinda uninteresting.
I guess you'll have other photos from the same place/excursion that are better.
Excellent.
Actually this was the best shot I could get; I was on a public bus and it was impossible tell the bus driver to stop so that I could take a composited frame, haha. Unfortunately I have no more than a 350D (lack of dynamic range, you know) and my kit lens, beacuse my old 50mm was full of fungi and got broken. *sigh*
I did my best to improve the image, because the original file was 'flatter' than this (if only you knew...). Besides, this is my first landscape photography!
You should've mentioned that it was taken on the move before Aldo!
Considering that you shot it on the move from a bus it's a pretty good attempt, especially for your first landscape.
As you probably know already, landscape photography requires a lot of "ideal" things to happen and takes a lot of dedication and patience ( well, just like most if not all photography kinds ).
If you really like landscape photography you should start spending more time and try finding some plenty-hours gaps for your excursions/trips for landscape photography.
ToD ( Time of Day ) is a very important factor, the lighting changes with time, with the most interesting lighting being sidelight and... backlit ( the sun in the background, inside or outside the frame ). Front lit ( the sun behind you and the camera ) usually gives a flat light, and top lighting ( midday ) gives an even worse outcome :D
The usual suspects in landscape photography time-wise are of course... sunset & sunrise, and the time before and after those ( dusk, blue hour, dawn, misty time ) which are usually referred to as "Golden hours".
Unless... you have an overcast sky, where the rules simply... seize to exist and conditions barely vary, making the "golden hours" worthless ( most of the times ).
Of course, to capture the scene the best, you need to be using a tripod and being stable, not moving at all.
Ideally you should first scout your location, find your angles, tweaking your composition/s, and then wait with everything set ( focused and locked, filters (if any) on, etc ) until the "unique" moment of lighting comes and then... CLICK!
Once you get accustomed to the various compositions and ToD and styles for landscape photography it is time to delve into exposure blending, focus stacking, luminosity masks, and "advanced dodging & burning" ).
Hope to see more from you soon!
Thanks for your support, Bill. I'll make better shots next time.
Not a big fan of the composition or time of day
Thank you very much, Lee! Didn't expect to see you in my post.
Aldo,
I agree with Bill and Lee...but there maybe a way to make this image much better. My suggestions are.
1. remove the structures using software tools.
2. convert to B&W
3. enhance the shapes of the hills with contrast and luminance adjustments
4. crop to an 8 x 10 vertical to reduce the sky and foreground
the image becomes more of a line and shape study than a landscape.....but such images can be nice.
attached I took some libertes on a screen capture of your image.
Mike