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30-SEP-2008

10/3/08 - Foggy Wetlands

Another image of wetlands in heavy morning fog. This version, made close to where the PAD from two days ago was made - http://www.pbase.com/ed_k/image/103939651 - falls short of the earlier PAD IMO. The previous PAD had a prominent visual element in the foreground (cattails less than 3 feet from the lens and filling a large portion of the picture space). Without such an anchor, the eye is left to wander too much without a resting place (again IMO). The cattail anchor also reinforces the notion of depth (here the illusion of depth is almost entirely due to the eye recognizing that things fading in mist & haze are farther away). In today's PAD, in order to get an effect similar to the cattails, I should have gone down over the bank (into some shallow water) and put that goldenrod in the lower left very close to the lens. Losing 10 feet in elevation would have also lost the mid ground which I didn't want to do. Compromised by putting something visually dominant (yellow & in focus) close up in a corner and pointing (sort of) into the scene - but the compromise resulted in a weaker image than the previous PAD. Composition 101 - self critique.

Nikon D300
1/3s f/22.0 at 35.0mm iso200 hide exif
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Date/Time30-Sep-2008 07:30:36
MakeNikon
ModelNIKON D300
Flash UsedNo
Focal Length35 mm
Exposure Time1/3 sec
Aperturef/22
ISO Equivalent200
Exposure Bias-0.67
White Balance
Metering Modematrix (5)
JPEG Quality
Exposure Programaperture priority (3)
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April 03-Oct-2008 21:36
"Composition 101 - self critique."

:)

When Craig Tanner of Radiant Vista was asked why he bothered to do the "Daily Critique", his answer was "to become a better editor of my own work." It's interesting to read your evaluation of this image.

Have you considered cropping to a square? When I gave that a try, then my eye really follows the lovely S-curve from lower left along the brighter seed heads into the misty background.

I envy you the fog and location!