Gallery: LandscapePosted March 6, 2012400 views5 comments
Santa Cruz Island, Dragon Hill area, the Galapagos
Canon 7D
Tokina 10-17mm DX f/3.5-4.5 @ 13mm, HH
f9
1/400s.
ISO 400
Thanks in advance for any C&C.
Comments
5 comments
Comment posted by Wayne Jones on March 6, 2012 at 3:28 PM
Beautiful scene with the raining clouds adding to the flamingos' environment.
"Critterscapes" are my favorite pictures, and I like long panoramas. However they do present display problems. In prints and on the screen, the height of the pictures can be so small that it's difficult for the main subject to make an impact. I sometimes display these onscreen with a scrolling panorama program, so I ask myself it the screen-size rectangles at either end hold anything of interest to the viewer. This also seems to help me crop a long pano for a print, too. In this case, I think cropping somewhere in the area of the tall dead trees on the left, and possibly removing about half of the area with plain gray sky on the right, would let you enlarge the height of the picture without removing too much of the habitat and weather. While it's not always possible, I often have an objective of trying to make the pano fit in a standard 12x36 poster frame, but that should not get in the way of presenting everything you want to show the viewer. Thanks for showing us a seldom-seen part of the Galapagos!
Registered on April 18, 2007, 953 Posts, 6435 Comments
Comment posted by Bill Chambers on March 6, 2012 at 3:54 PM
Beautiful image Rebecka. With panos it's kinda hard to view them very effectively, even with the larger version, but it looks great. I like the pano format, although I think you would probably crop a little off the sides without harming it. The clouds in the BG add a great point of interest in the image. Thanks for sharing.
Registered on April 10, 2005, 753 Posts, 21216 Comments
Comment posted by Robert Dayton on March 6, 2012 at 5:43 PM
A great nature image, Rebecka! It's nice to see the Flamingos' environment.
Registered on November 11, 2008, 281 Posts, 3958 Comments
Comment posted by Walt Sterneman on March 6, 2012 at 7:31 PM
Very nice Rebecka. I do like the pano format here.I agree that you could probably take a little off the left side but don't loose those light rays on the right.
Registered on March 24, 2010, 73 Posts, 1268 Comments
Comment posted by Nick Bristol on March 7, 2012 at 9:56 AM
Rebecka, This is very nice and I enjoy looking at it. I just wish I could see it even larger than the large version here. Nice work!
Nick Bristol
Lone Rock, WI
Registered on February 1, 2004, 752 Posts, 14140 Comments
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5 comments"Critterscapes" are my favorite pictures, and I like long panoramas. However they do present display problems. In prints and on the screen, the height of the pictures can be so small that it's difficult for the main subject to make an impact. I sometimes display these onscreen with a scrolling panorama program, so I ask myself it the screen-size rectangles at either end hold anything of interest to the viewer. This also seems to help me crop a long pano for a print, too. In this case, I think cropping somewhere in the area of the tall dead trees on the left, and possibly removing about half of the area with plain gray sky on the right, would let you enlarge the height of the picture without removing too much of the habitat and weather. While it's not always possible, I often have an objective of trying to make the pano fit in a standard 12x36 poster frame, but that should not get in the way of presenting everything you want to show the viewer. Thanks for showing us a seldom-seen part of the Galapagos!
Nick Bristol
Lone Rock, WI