+++ The Weekly Landscape Thread - #8, 2025.03.28

... here is the promised link (for all) about "How to make your photos look better" on this website :-)
dprevived.com/t/how-to-make-your-photos-look-better-on-the-photo/7116/

Both are very good!
Not quite sure exactly what you did but the result is very special , especially the second, with its soft appearance. The gentle warm pastel-like colours look like a painting of a dreamy moment
The first is like a firework of grasses!

High Country

Another one from the vault. Coming down off of Buffalo Pass in the Northern Colorado Rockies, we came to a lovely lake where we were going to set up camp for the night. It was about 4 PM and I saw this peaceful scene. However, the light just wasn't right. I set up my tripod, put my camera on and moved it around to get the composition and just left it when we went about setting up. After we set up I pulled out my fly rod and started to stalk dinner.

When the sun got into the right position illuminating the far bank generating reflections I knew it was time and the time was short. I checked the composition, metered put in the film holder pulled the dark slide and shot. About 30 seconds afterwards to sun was blocked by a tree and the scene disappeared. I put the camera gear away and went back to fishing.

Taken in September 1984 with Zone VI field camera, 210 mm Schneider lens, TriX developed in HC110 Solution B.

Dear all,

I've recently spent a week of (well deserved, of course) holidays in Gran Canaria with my wife but without the kids (yeah !). Very nice place to hike and stroll, with varied landscapes. On two occasions we went for sunset viewing, and it was much less crowded than I feared (the places are easy to walk or even drive to). Here is a small selection of three pictures :

Wow, 41 years ago!
yes, indeed good light is the key to a good photo.
Looks like a great place for camping and fishing. Hope you caught something good for dinner 😊
The little peninsular is well placed in the image and the squiggly reflections on the slightly rippled water are great.
As usual from you, lots of details and good tonality.
The mountain, just visible over the trees gives an extra “dimension” and more depth. Adding a feeling for the “lay of the land”.

These scratch my brain in a very particular way. Especially the first photo really encapsulates the feeling of looking at a "mundane" landscape and seeing it through new eyes. The overlayed plant life looks like fireworks in a way. It reminds me of a short poem I read in our calender recently:
Tree:
The
Infinitely
Slow
Explosion
Of
A
Seed

The grass envokes the feeling of properly percieving the little things in life for the first time. Suddenly, this "boring" landscape is home to a million little wonders.

Yes, the larger this image is viewed, the more the darker areas reveal details. The face in the wall is unmistakable. It looks as if the shadows on the wall face have been raised. That's fine but it appears to have been done with a radial gradient and the edges are a bit too pronounced. Perhaps use a little less brightening and take it out to the edge of the building while avoiding any brightening of the immediate background around the building Raising the shadows on the building while the remainder of the foreground is almost featureless, feels a bit odd. You might brighten the shadow areas across the rest of the foreground a little as well so the stone walls don't look artificially spotlighted.
I like the touches of sunset sky shown right through the windows.

Very, very nice indeed. I often use ICM but I have never thought of combining it with multiple exposure. There is a glorious soft, mellowness to these that feels exactly right for Ireland.
Would you also care to post these in the abstract/Experimental thread? If they haven't spotted them here, many in that thread will like what you have done.

Lovely sunsets!
All good, but I'll pick the middle one from the three.
Not only the sky, but also the air, is full of that golden light. Those sun rays are nicely visible and add some diagonal lines too :-)
The sun, sky and golden air are all very bright, without being totally saturated. They look even brighter, to the extent it almost blinds you, because of your composition of the sunset together with the very dark foreground :-)
Lots of receding layers provide a good feeling of depth and those jagged peaks look particularly interesting.
It's already a wide format image with 16:9, but one edit I'd suggest would be to try to crop even more off the bottom making it into something like a 2:1 panorama format. I think it feels a bit more balanced and impressive like that.

The Constable countryside is indeed beautiful! You've found and captured a nice scene here with that cow under the big tree. The diagonal branches hanging down make like leading line, from the corner, that you can follow to discover the cow :-)
Impressive clouds in England :-)

While I didn't carry my 4x5 into the high country often - sometimes it was necessary as mountain landscape scenes don't always have roads leading in.
This was a three day trip. My pack was over 50 pounds. I went at about a buck 50 at the time. Going up over passes was not the problem, you just had to go slow and stop often. However, coming down was another issue. But sometimes - it was worth it.

As far dinner high altitude lakes, this one was about 10,000 ft, are normally great fishing as the feeding time at that altitude is limited because of early freezing and late thaws so the trout are usually feeding and aren't to picky about what they strike. The lakes are deep and the fish tend to be large. We had a nice dinner that night. It's a good thing we did, as my pack was heavy from camera gear we cut back a bit on food.