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I thought of having some of my New Zealand pictures critiqued on the forum. Previously, I had posted two pictures, one of a sunset taken in the vicinity of Dunedin and the other of an aerial-view of Lyttleton Harbour near Christchurch. Now, I’m posting a landscape photo I took in Queenstown. A jetboat rides on Lake Wakatipu with the Queenstown Golf Club in the middleground and the Remarkables Mountain Range in the background. I would appreciate if you let me know your thoughts on the picture.
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1/400 sec.
f/5.6
7.4mm
ISO 80(Note: the EXIF data reports a wrong time as I hadn’t changed the camera’s time settings to reflect the regional time zone. The picture was taken at 4:17 P.M. )
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Absolutely beautiful! I love the colors and the sharp focus! It would have been nice if the horizon was on a line of thirds. Great job!
Very nice! I like how you have the mountains and trees framed. It would have been nice if you could have captured the boat just a little sooner while it was just to the left of center to give the appearance of coming into the frame instead of going out. Also if there was anything around to give you a higher vantage point, it would have created a little more space between the boat and the opposite shoreline as well as bringing the mountains up a little higher above the trees. As it is everything interesting in the photo is in a narrow strip in the center. Getting higher would have made the composition a little more spread out vertically and filled the frame better.
Very nice! First of all, I would use a polarizing filter to reduce reflection, and then I would get down a bit lower to take this shot.
(If you get down lower, though, it might conceal the mountains in the background, so that might not work very well.)
Thank you very much for the wonderful comments and suggestions. @dan-cope, you helped me see how this picture could be better taken from a different perspective; I guess it didn’t occur to me that everything interesting was located in the middle of the picture. If only there were a higher vantage point in the vicinity, I would have grabbed the opportunity to shoot from there. I understand that this method of capturing the landscape is opposite of Ryan’s. @rmadaris, perhaps you meant that from a lower perspective I could have the horizon on a line of thirds, as pointed out by @jinnyschober.
I would use a polarizing filter to reduce reflection
Besides reducing reflection, does a polarizing filter affect the colour of the resulting picture?
@joshua, yes, it does help to enhance the color in some situations. It won’t do as good a job if it’s pointing toward the sun, however.
This is a bit off topic, but @jamesstaddon, is Lenspiration automatically stripping the exif data from all pictures now? It seems to me that the exif data used to be there, but I cannot find any recent pictures that have any exif data.
@joshua, yes, it does help to enhance the color in some situations.
Since they enhance picture quality, my guess is that these filters would reduce post-processing time. How much do they cost on average, and are they compatible only with SLRs?
How much do they cost on average, and are they compatible only with SLRs?
I’ve written/talked about polarizers a bit in some material accessible only to those in “The Click” (What You Need to Know When Buying a Polarizer Filter), but try checking out some of these past free articles/topics:
https://www.lenspiration.com/forums/topic/polarizing-filters/
https://www.lenspiration.com/forums/topic/filters/
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Hey, just wanted to let you know @dfrazer, I believe that the cause of the issue you mentioned has been identified and resolved today! Lenspiration should now be keeping exif data on uploaded pictures.
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