but is it good?

The plan was to shoot a chosen location at sunrise.
The day dawned with full cloud, dull and grey, darkening the mood.
The path was narrow and treacherous, constricting creativity.
Half an hour in and it started to snow, freezing fingers and thumbs.
If I wasnt feeling the photography I was certainly feeling that. Painfully cold.
A few more snowy snaps on the way back to the car and home.
Of course on the drive back the clouds opened to reveal the most gorgeous pastel orange and blues.
Gnarragh.
Pulled this from the detritus of the morning.

Not bad for a 20 megapickle sensor nearly 20 years old.
Is there noise? Yup. Is it soft? Oh yeah.
None of that detracts from the composition.
Maybe you could pull something else out of the reeds.

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I really like your crop and composition but added some extra just as a one more option. The 5D is iconic.


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I love the composition and soft mono look you went for. It turns the dry grass into a kind of ground mist.

Still, just to be different, I went full colour and super long aspect. Not sure it works, though. It looks a bit unbalanced now:

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DT 5.4 AgX and I deliberately softened the picture a little to resemble of softness of a painted landscape.
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Hey! That’s my tree! :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:

Shot in October on a similarly grey day…

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It’s a small world!

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RawTherapee and GIMP


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darktable 5.4


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