B+W Landscape

[Julian de'Courcy]

I find landscape photography difficult. Probably why most of the time I like the two thirds to be sky. This is another of those that I am not sure about. A composite of a few shots. Used the Olympus micro 75mm f1.8 which has as close to zero distortion so it works well for stitching together images. I have also found that cs6 does a superb job of automating this process while I pour another cup of coffee and wait for the results.

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New Road by JuliandeCourcy, on Flickr

 

[Chris Dodkin]

Saw this first on FLICKR - WOW!

The tones and texture in the field is stunning, and the drama in the lighting is epic - very movie like

Worth looking at the large version on FLICKR

 

[Beth Carter]

wow is right. love the tones and all of the drama going on in the sky.

 

[Rob MacKillop]

Very nice, Julian. I also think it looks better in the Flickr Lightbox. Can't see the join!

 

[Paul Lange]

I've found that some of the landscape shots I like the best have the horizon in the middle, and this is one of them. In Flickr the central area of shadows doesn't look as dark which really helps.

 

[Julian de'Courcy]

Thanks Chris.

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Thanks Beth

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Very nice, Julian. I also think it looks better in the Flickr Lightbox. Can't see the join!

Rob they were three portrait shots. Any chance of highlighting the join. I have been putting a few up on flickr which are big images, which does help landscapes sometimes.

 

[Julian de'Courcy]

I've found that some of the landscape shots I like the best have the horizon in the middle, and this is one of them. In Flickr the central area of shadows doesn't look as dark which really helps.

Yes Paul I often find the rule of thirds is not always the ratio to use. the dark area does differ a lot when I save for web as well sometimes rather than saving as from photoshop, I work from Raw to Tiff then jpg which maybe why. . I am not sure how jpg compression works but maybe it does affect the hue.

 

[Brian Moore]

An absolute stunner, Julian. Love it! (My first thought: "The Shire.")

 

[Hamish Gill]

I like this a lot ... Straight out of a dystopian novel

 

[Julian de'Courcy]

An absolute stunner, Julian. Love it! (My first thought: "The Shire.")

Thanks Brian

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I like this a lot ... Straight out of a dystopian novel

Hamish it does have that illustrative look about it, rather than a photo in many ways.

 

[Pete Askew]

What a wonderfully clean image Julian. It does indeed conjure up an illustration. I especially like the almost featureless buildings.

 

[Nihat Iyriboz]

Beautiful!