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Offline Kerrse

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Mountain pics
« on: 09 April 2012, 13:41 »
Couple pictures from Ben Nevis, these were only taken on my phone will upload the ones from the camera when I get home





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Re: Mountain pics
« Reply #1 on: 10 April 2012, 16:29 »
:cool: I actually work for a company called Nevis Marketing, the company was named after Ben Nevis....
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Re: Mountain pics
« Reply #3 on: 12 April 2012, 17:39 »
http://photoinf.com/Golden_Mean/John_Longenecker/Rule_of_Thirds.htm

Thanks for the advice I took photos I liked & didn't realise I had to follow rules

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Re: Mountain pics
« Reply #4 on: 13 April 2012, 08:58 »
http://photoinf.com/Golden_Mean/John_Longenecker/Rule_of_Thirds.htm

Thanks for the advice I took photos I liked & didn't realise I had to follow rules

lol it's not a rule it's a guide, if you like the photos you're taking fair enough; keep doing what you're doing.

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Re: Mountain pics
« Reply #5 on: 13 April 2012, 10:19 »
I'll be honest, I either want to see the Scirocco or the whole mountain not both together.

But photography is subjective, if you like your shots then :afro:

Offline Kerrse

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Re: Mountain pics
« Reply #6 on: 18 April 2012, 19:18 »
Some camera ones but not sure they follow the rules either



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Re: Mountain pics
« Reply #7 on: 18 April 2012, 19:28 »
they follow the rules of being fairly poor photos :undecided:

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Re: Mountain pics
« Reply #8 on: 18 April 2012, 19:53 »
they follow the rules of being fairly poor photos :undecided:

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Re: Mountain pics
« Reply #9 on: 19 April 2012, 08:04 »
Here's a quick edit of one of those, just tweeked the colours, adjusted contrast and cropped slightly.
But it's still not great.



The big problem here is that the angles chosen do not allow one thing or the other to be the focus of the shot. You're trying to get a mountain in a shot with a car. You are too close to the mountain to get an interesting view on it, all you can see is green/brown hillside. You'd need to be a mile or two away to get the mountain small enough. You need distance to give you perspective and to get the two subjects to co-exist in the shot nicely. If you had to be that close to the mountain, you would probably need to shoot up from the floor with a wide angle on a portrait shot to get the top of the mountain in shot above the car.

Here's one of my old photos showing a relationship between the car and hills/valley around it (not perfect and the car isn't fantastic either ;) ).


Here's another example from flickr: Close up of car but interesting rocks in the background, but the car is definitely the focus.

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