Hi Everyone,
Finally got round to posting a few of my recent images from the Lofoten. Spent a little more than a week there beginning of February, just before the Corona madness broke out. So perhaps the shots are not so recent, but I take ages to select and process them.
I would love to hear some feedback from your on either of these. I'm particularly fond of Halcyon I, curious to hear your opinions!
Thanks a lot in advance!
really enjoying the 3rd picture. good composition and well exposed. you might take it back to photoshop and warm the whitebalance just a little to get the blue out of it. but then if you like the blue it is your picture andyour opinion is the only one that really counts
Hi John, Thanks for the tip. I might have indeed overdone the colour grading in that third one, but I do enjoy that extra dash of blue :)
If you "take ages", then I take aeons, Hajnalka! There's something about waiting, though, as "wow factor" can fade with time.
All three are fine images as I expect from you by now. I'm inclined to agree with Vijay about the second to some degree, although that depends on one's compositional preferences. The colours are beautiful in the third, but it's a bit soft (although that could be from the upload on to FS) and it LOOKS as if it's rotated clockwise about 1.5 degrees. Looking at it in software, it seems to be only about 0.2 degrees, but I think there's an optical illusion from the nature of the composition. I'd play around until it looked right to me using whatever tools worked. Maybe others don't see it the way I do.
The first is among your very best for my tastes, having a fresh look at your impressive portfolio. I particularly like the composition, with the sweep of the river, and those tufts of grass at bottom right. I wouldn't change a thing, and I'd be very happy to have produced such a fine image. Well done.
Hi Chris, Thanks so much for your feedback. I've noticed that the third image appears quite soft on this platform (the mountains look even out of focus), but when I clicked the photo to enlarge it, it seemed to be okay. Not sure what causes this issue. Also thanks for checking thoroughly whether the horizon is level. It might have slipped a bit through stitching (it's a vertical pano).
The third is definitely softer than the others when I click on it & enlarge, Hajnalka.
The scene may well actually slope down to the sea, which I presume is at right. I find it tricky getting gently sloping landscapes that are assumed by the viewer to be flat to look right. Do we show reality? Or do we show what feels right? I'm very sensitive to horizon tilts, but not everyone is.
Great work! I like the first picture, light and composition are excellent!
Thanks so much, Gregory. I really appreciate your feedback.
The first pic is my fav. I love the composition and most everything else about it. The second seems mundane to me by comparison. I love the textures of the third one, but for my personal tastes might probably want to see a bit more punch in the colours of the sky
Thanks, Duane for your input. I find it really helpful.