This is nice Graeme. The first thought that enters my head though is that I would be belting it over to the distant rocks on either the left or right as they look really interesting to me.
Other than that I'd say there is a lot of grass which doesn’t add too much to the image other than colour. Perhaps drop much lower so you compress that area of land into a smaller space and instead use the sky as the larger element of the scene. You may need a stronger sky however for that to work. Going lower may also allow the water to be used to better potential.
Think this is your best Dartmoor image so far. I like the way the water leads into the image and then on to Bell Tor and Bonehill Rocks. The colours are also very pleasing, typical moors. By cropping this image as a pano you have got rid of a lot of the less interesting foreground and concentrate on the areas of interest.
Yes there is a lot of grass but that it was Dartmoor is large areas of nothing punctuated by small areas of interest. As David said in one of his earlier posts Dartmoor is a really odd place to try to sum up in an image. I agree with Tristan that when photographing large areas of the moors, the image needs a dramatic sky. This works very well with B&W images, which I think really suit Dartmoor. As said it is very easy to spend hours up there and come away with nothing pleasing.
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2 repliesJudging by what people have said I'd say it doesn't, but thought I'd post it anyway to get some more hard critique
Don't be shy now. Beginning to realise that sometimes I shouldn't be trying to use my 17-40 for every landscape shot
Other than that I'd say there is a lot of grass which doesn’t add too much to the image other than colour. Perhaps drop much lower so you compress that area of land into a smaller space and instead use the sky as the larger element of the scene. You may need a stronger sky however for that to work. Going lower may also allow the water to be used to better potential.
Stick with that 17-40, it’s a great lens.
Tristan
Think this is your best Dartmoor image so far. I like the way the water leads into the image and then on to Bell Tor and Bonehill Rocks. The colours are also very pleasing, typical moors. By cropping this image as a pano you have got rid of a lot of the less interesting foreground and concentrate on the areas of interest.
Yes there is a lot of grass but that it was Dartmoor is large areas of nothing punctuated by small areas of interest. As David said in one of his earlier posts Dartmoor is a really odd place to try to sum up in an image. I agree with Tristan that when photographing large areas of the moors, the image needs a dramatic sky. This works very well with B&W images, which I think really suit Dartmoor. As said it is very easy to spend hours up there and come away with nothing pleasing.
John Lee