Golf club in the winter

[Desmond Chan]

Fujifilm S5 Tamron 17-50 f2.8 @38 hand-held. Manual exposure mode, no flash. ISO 400 f8 1/125s.

Taken last Christmas. Properly not as serious a landscape shot as you guys do, but still wonder what the experts think about it.

C&C appreciated !

Thanks for looking !

[Robert Amoruso]

Desmond,

It is an interesting image and well composed. The tree locations and various colors flow nicely through the scene. The clouds have a nice look to them and just the right amount of soft subtle color to add to the scene w/o overpowering it. Only thing I would have liked to seen different is the placement of the two persons more at the left and the beginning of their trek through to open area.

[Kyle Marie Barcelos]

Beautiful picture, The people just bother me because they just look like specks. The trees and sky are wonderful, I know it's cold there but when i look at this picture i feel warm. Great job :)

[Roman Kurywczak]

Hi Desmond,
Really nice job on the exposure. I felt like the above but I also felt that if you cropped from the bottom to more of a pano......and a small bit off the left.....the people would be in a better position in the frame and further emphasize the beautiful sky. Let me know what you think.
PS I have debated a more proportional crop and remove more on the left....but didn't want to lose any more of the wonderful sky.

[Desmond Chan]

Thanks for the comments!

I actually waited for the people to walk to where they're in the photo before I clicked the shutter button. Perhaps waited a bit too long. Anyhow, the main reason I included the persons - obviously also because they happened to be walking in the field and it was so cold that I wanted to get back inside - is to use them as a scale to show the height of the trees and the vastness of the scene.

Roman, one thing that a bit bothering is the empty space in the foreground of the original image (which is not cropped). Your crop takes care of that. Thanks for the repost!