I just (finally) purchased a drone to try a different perspective (pardon the pun) on landscape photography. This is one of my first photos flying around the neighborhood.
I know this isn't the most exciting subject for the photo, but some CC would be appreciated... Overall, how is the composition? Color? What would you change if you were flying over this area?
Very appealing image, Mark! It looks so lush, soft and inviting. Your processing is just right, for me - appealing colours, but not overblown, as I often see.
The composition is good too. Perhaps I'd have been inclined to angle that green figure-eight clockwise, so the semi-clearing at lower left led the eye diagonally along the grass further across the image, past the midline. I think this would mean flying to the right (~100 metres?), and swivelling left. This may have lost the golden sky at right, and made the shadows run horizontally, so may not have been any good. You were there (well, below)!
Thanks so much, Chris! I agree about the angle, and I did try it but couldn’t get a good shot... angle one way and the sun was a complete washout, angle the other and the sky was really dark. I wasn’t up at the right time and the battery was dying fast, but I’ll provably be able to try again this evening.
It's a very enjoyable image as is, Mark! I think the basically rather symmetrical figure-eight-lying-flat image of the cleared & cultivated areas, except for that lead-in from the lower left, is quite interesting. It makes me feel as if I'm being led into a private paradise. It is so gorgeously green! Here in Australia, the greens are generally rather olive-toned, unsaturated, and to put it unkindly rather drab! I gravitate to its greener parts, like Tasmania.
Keep posting. Your work is good!