Morkel Erasmus
10-25-2009, 09:26 AM
Desperate for some practice on my landscape composing skills I set out to a family friend's farm close to our town. Choosing a scene is difficult in these parts as you have to compete with miles and miles of pylons, numerous factories and power plants with smoke stacks and overall lack of strong natural compositional elements (no hills, mountains etc). These are the challenges of living on the South African Highveld - the most densely populated and industrious area of the country.
Luckily, on our friend's farm there are some old ruins that can spice things up a bit. I'll definitely visit this place some more during the summer, and especially towards autumn when the cosmos starts blooming. I went to shoot the ruins at sunset but all I got was a raging wind and thundershowers all round. It's raining most every day now so I'll have to take what I can get.
Created this image with 5 exposures in manual mode. Blended in Photomatix and punched back some details from the originals in CS 3. Went for a central horizon here cause I wanted to include enough of both FG and that moody sky, and dang some rules deserve to be broken sometimes. :)
Your comments highly appreciated.
Techs:
Canon 1000D with 18-55mm IS @ 18mm
f16 @ ISO-100
Luckily, on our friend's farm there are some old ruins that can spice things up a bit. I'll definitely visit this place some more during the summer, and especially towards autumn when the cosmos starts blooming. I went to shoot the ruins at sunset but all I got was a raging wind and thundershowers all round. It's raining most every day now so I'll have to take what I can get.
Created this image with 5 exposures in manual mode. Blended in Photomatix and punched back some details from the originals in CS 3. Went for a central horizon here cause I wanted to include enough of both FG and that moody sky, and dang some rules deserve to be broken sometimes. :)
Your comments highly appreciated.
Techs:
Canon 1000D with 18-55mm IS @ 18mm
f16 @ ISO-100