Woodland dancer.
I must admit that I do find woodland photography pretty daunting. You walk through wonderful forests and there are shapely trees everywhere, but finding compositions is really difficult. Very different to landscape and seascape photography where the composition is pretty clear and foregrounds leap out at me!
I wandered around these woodlands near home most of the morning and enjoyed the walk, but I honestly struggled to see a shot. I came away with lots of images of trees and copses, but many of them seemed uninspiring and lacking any real sense of shape and interest. I must have binned more than 70% of the shots I took.
I was left with just a couple of images that looked alright and I played around with them and even added a bit of "orton effect" on them, but remained underwhelmed by the whole experience. I will have to work with the genre and try to educate my lazy woodland eye, or stick with landscapes.
Woodland dancer.
I must admit that I do find woodland photography pretty daunting. You walk through wonderful forests and there are shapely trees everywhere, but finding compositions is really difficult. Very different to landscape and seascape photography where the composition is pretty clear and foregrounds leap out at me!
I wandered around these woodlands near home most of the morning and enjoyed the walk, but I honestly struggled to see a shot. I came away with lots of images of trees and copses, but many of them seemed uninspiring and lacking any real sense of shape and interest. I must have binned more than 70% of the shots I took.
I was left with just a couple of images that looked alright and I played around with them and even added a bit of "orton effect" on them, but remained underwhelmed by the whole experience. I will have to work with the genre and try to educate my lazy woodland eye, or stick with landscapes.