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And here is one somewhere in between…
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Oops. I meant to attach my other fog picture too.
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image 1: perhaps the road is too distracting. It’s a leading line that doesn’t go anywhere. It would have been nice to have the very top of the plant in the image as well. A little out of focus.
image 2: dark and fuzzy. If the rock is the subject, it is too dark. Use a tripod for the long exposure. The fog does not come across in the image. Looks more like haze.
Thanks
First I just love your first one! The road getting lost in the fog really makes me feel like I’m beside some quiet country road in the early morning before the dew has lifted. Very peaceful. I can’t see the focus issue, maybe the green plant on a green background tends to confuse the eye – the microcontrast of the black spots is very good. The tip of the plant sticking out is a point- but very easily “faked” in post processing.
Second – Very nice, I love the out-in-the-wilderness, peaceful feel again. Your rock is sharp- if there’s any blur, it’s that your tree moved a bit. (can’t tell in a low-res image) Seems like a subject movement problem, not camera shake. (probably just the leaves fluttering in the breeze) You’re in low light though, so it’s tough to choose between that and a bit more iso noise.Love the peaceful feeling of both images! This is achieved through your choice of a very wide aperture. For intimate closeups like these, going with a shallow depth of field is best. Imagine if the backgrounds were in focus. There would be a lot of unnecessary detail in the images, and the images would look amateurish (because armatures don’t know how to change the focus point or change their settings to get DOF). Also, if the entire scene was in focus, the minute details of your subjects would be lost, crowded out by all the other details in the shot. So all that to say, nice DOF.
In the first shot, I agree wholeheartedly with @TimTam about seeing the top of the plant, and @Nasa about it being faked. You should be able to do this in Lightroom with some precision brushing. However, it would be very easy to do in Photoshop, if you have it. As for composition, I feel that there isn’t enough of the plan in the image. I like the convergence of background lines to the plant; it’s just there’s just too much blurry background on the left side of the picture. I would have zoomed in a little more. Also, notice that the left side of the plan forms a very strong vertical line? It seems to be splitting the picture in half. I know it’s impossible to flip that plant around, but it would look a whole lot nicer if the diagonal side of the plant was facing into the frame.
As for the second shot, I’m afraid it is very much out of focus. Camera shake. A tripod was needed. A tripod would have allowed you to choose an ISO with less noise too. Have you experimented with the noise reduction sliders in Lightroom? I read this thread the other day on both sharpening and noise reduction: http://photo.stackexchange.com/questions/27083/recommended-start-point-for-sharpening-raw-images
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