nice....!

Just brilliant, the silhouette suits the composition

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Thanks mate...I reckon you're the same...a sky like that just cannot go to waste

It was so frustrating...I was seeing all these rolling fields over the other side of the fence with the sky above it....but my wife was sitting in the car, we were in a hurry to get home, and this was the best I could do in the circumstances (I was in such a hurry that I left the cam in manual focus, so if you look at the fence just above the horizon, it's blurry where there was no focus)....when will I grow out of mistakes like that :-/

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LOL....I hate that...my crap is that usually in such fleeting light I'm driving and looking for a place worth stopping at, I see many good ones but I'm always looking for something perfect and I end up getting no shots at all and the light dissapears.

About the focus thing, not to sound vain, but my work is of a standard above any South African photographer out there. There are a lot with good photos, but they're those typical 'good shot' guys. It's always good, but never daring or interesting, and certainly never anything below 40mm focal length. So the archive of images I'm building now should have amazing lucrative potential in the future and thus I take a lot of care to make sure that the focus, depth of field and exposure in all my shots are as good as I can get it. So I end up taking much less compositions and shots, but they all have some value, they're all good shots and I wouldn't delete any of them to make space. This is also leading me away from the drive and stop thing, I plan my trips so that I can park somewhere and walk a few km's and have plenty of time to do so.

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I love the moments like this, before sun goes down

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This is really beautiful! I'm no expert by any means but I think this is a beautiful moment that you caught and I am faving it!

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It's a good way to be in. That's basically my way of shooting serious landscapes now. If it's not a place I know and I'll have a drive to get there, then I'll scout it first using GoogleMaps, check the tides online and make sure I get there at least an hour before sunset. That's where the two beach shots I just put ins scraps came from. I made sure I gave myself plenty of time to shoot, had all my equipment sorted...but the conditions were just no good. I took those shots for when I return, to give myself an idea of compostions that will work and save time when I get there.

As for the "technically correct" brigade....that exists a little in Portugal (and here on DA) with people who are obsessed with recording a scene accurately. For me, my camera is a creative object, not an instrument for accurately recording reality. Reality doesn't have silhouettes, reality doesn't have long exposures, reality doesn't freeze action, reality doesn't compress images like a telephotos lens does, nor distort them like a wide angle does. For me, photography has nothing to do with recording reality...my eyes are for that. A camera is a creative tool for seeing deeper than that...and I'm amazed that the "it has to look exactly as it does to the eye" brigade don't get that.

Good luck with your archive and portfolio...I hope it works out well for you

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Thanks so much...it's a shame that at this moment I was stuck on a motorway :-/

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Thanks so much

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