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An image of Llyn Ogwen with Afon Lloer in the foreground and Tryfan standing tall in the background.
Sometimes I think I try too hard to find something interesting for the foreground. People often ask "did you move that object there" - so I will save anyone the trouble. No, no I did not.
Add foreground interest to your photo's the pro's always tell you. They should add the caveat - make sure and don't kill yourself in the process. This is a photo of Loch Katrine and the cloud touched top of the mountain Ben Venue in the Trossachs area of Scotland, taken while clinging precariously to the side of Ben A'an. To my immediate left is a 500 feet / 150 metre drop. All for the sake of some grass and heather in the foreground. I should also add I suffer badly from vertigo which I combat by doing daft things like this. Was it worth it ???
Taken alongside Burbage brook in the Peak District.
I didn't put the sprig of leaves in the foreground but I wondered if another photographer had done as it was so well placed.
Frost on the meadow shrubs offered a nice foreground contrast to the dark pines in the mid-ground and the beautiful shimmering glow and mist on the mountains in the background. Taken near Icefields Parkway, Banff National Park, Canada.
The foreground is the Gunnison National Forest
The Sangre de Cristo Mountains (Spanish for "Blood of Christ") are the southernmost subrange of the Rocky Mountains. They are located in southern Colorado and northern New Mexico in the United States. The mountains run from Poncha Pass in South-Central Colorado, trending southeast and south, ending at Glorieta Pass, southeast of Santa Fe, New Mexico. The mountains contain a number of fourteen thousand foot peaks in the Colorado portion, as well as several peaks in New Mexico which are over thirteen thousand feet. (Wikipedia)
Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve is on this side of the mountain range forming a clear boundary and distinct landmark
This is similar shot I had for RMNP earlier, but this one shows little more foreground than earlier version.
I'm rubbish at landscape and I can never find the right composition. Needless to say, I got a bit irritated the other night whilst driving home and made an impulse decision.
Yesterday in the port of Hamburg, a wonderful evening...
In the foreground the museum ship "Cap San Diego" and in the background the musical theaters on the other bank of the Elbe
Cap San Diego und die Theater
Gestern im Hamburger Hafen, ein wunderbarer Abend ...
Im Vordergrund das Museumsschiff "Cap San Diego" und im Hintergrund die Musical Theater am anderen Ufer der Elbe
Actually a very benevolent and a very old black oak double trunk tree that I have visited in my youth to climb its long web like limbs. In my golden years I now sit on the bench you see at peace and thankful to be able to do so. The bees are active today as they return this afternoon to their hive that is at the base of the trunk in the foreground.
Our Daily Challenge:
THE FOREST is the topic for Saturday, April 16, 2022
Varlaam monastery is seen in the foreground. Roussanou nunnery (convent) is seen to the right, in the background. Rock formations. Golden hour.
Meteora rocks constitute geologically unique rock formations. The site is included in UNESCO World Heritage list. Caves near Meteora were inhabited since 23,000 – 50,000 yrs ago (e.g. the stone wall at the entrance of Theopetra cave). Hermit monks lived here since 9th century AD. Monasteries were built on Meteora since 14th c. AD: Meteora hosts one of the most precipitously built complexes of Eastern Orthodox monasteries.
The landmark adobe walls of St. Aloysius Church rest nestled in a former mining camp, in operation from 1907 until 1956.
This was taken at noon, I was about to lunch when I saw this sky through the window, I pick up my car and tried to find a place with some foreground interest.
This must be one of strangest cloud formations I have ever seen, is this some kind of lenticular cloud ?
It last for several hours but unfortunately didn't survive until the golden hour :-(
Decided to go up to Silver Lake near Brighton, Utah and retake a shot I had done last year at this same spot (now that I kinda have a handle on this whole Milky Way photography thing). I only had 30 minutes to take sky shots once it got dark before the moon came up so I couldn't get the whole arch in frame, it's getting late in the Milky Way season which makes the big sweeping arch pano's difficult to get done.
This is a tough place to shoot the Milky Way, lots and lots of people with flashlights/cars/annoyances make it challenging to get clean shots without being apparent. Plus this is a bortle 6 zone with LOTS of light pollution, Salt Lake/Ogden is to the far left, Provo/Orem is to the far right, Park City is in the middle on the other side of the Mountain and Heber is below the core in this shot. Makes for very uneven illumination across the sky and color balance is extremely difficult.
While I was taking one of the foreground shots the slowest meteor I've ever seen zipped down to the horizon. It was so slow I could even clearly see it rotating as it burned up. I stopped my exposure 30 seconds short to make sure I got it, luckily I did both in the sky AND the reflection! I had to work that back into the image since it was lost during the stitching.
Altogether this is 12 shots, 5 for the sky, 5 for the foreground, and 2 extra reflection shots. Each taken with my Nikon D600 and Rokinon 24mm f1.4 lens on my Star Adventurer tracking mount. Sky/reflection shots are 2.5 minute exposures at ISO 400 and f2.5. Foreground shots are 2 minute exposures at ISO 800 and f2.5.
66303 passes Heamies Farm whilst hauling a Crewe Basford Hall - Bescot engineers train, 25 Jan 2017.
*axle counter Photoshopped out of foreground
- William Butler Yeats.
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Today’s phot is a from one of my favorite locations in all of American Southwest, Dead Horse Point State Park. We were at Moab, UT as part of our 10-day long roadtrip across most of the Southern Utah. We passed this little state park on our way to Canyonlands National Park everyday. During our planning we only allowed a sunrise slot to this park because I knew that there was only really one composition here.
I am glad to report that this little statepark proved me very wrong, while it has only one composition what composition it is. We were quite blown away by the grand scene that unfolded in front of us during sunrise. Also, the sheer amount of foreground interests to compose at the park is just tremendous, all you must do is safely traverse to the ledge while keeping in mind about the sheer drop to the canyon.
This is a panorama shot made of stitching two images taken in landscape orientation. I used a 2 stop ND grad filter to balance incredible light in the sky and some of the cliffs to ambient light in the canyon. I also used a bit of the canyon ledge to provide some perspective to the sheer size of the canyon the Colorado river has created.
if you look closely you can see the rock-cliff "ears" mostly sharing the same outline as the foreground trees-
Day 162 of the 365 days of photography project.
I’m playing with foregrounds and backgrounds / focus.
I wanted the focus on the sapling, whilst maintaining a decent image of the farmhouse
Discovered in Stacksteads, Lancashire
Panasonic FZ82
Thanks for all your visits, faves, and comments. Much appreciated.
along the passage to the january garden
the bougainvillea remains under cover on the left until the warmer weather. i had a peak and the leaves have caught the frost. it's got a 50/50 chance of survival
potted kniphofias, red hot pokers, in the foreground on the right
they haven't flowered for a couple of years maybe this year, time will tell
for many years my garden was a shrubbery flic.kr/p/Lhv9ag which i loved. a picket fence covered in an ivy hedge coming down in a storm flic.kr/p/2gnCyih meant that over time changes had to happen flic.kr/p/2mn2x8a i'll be glad when the trellis is covered in honeysuckle and jasmine. that's the plan ...
www.flickr.com/groups/gardening_is_my_hobby/ helpful for ideas. thank you for sharing
A few weeks ago I visited my parents and while I was there I also had the opportunity to photograph some autumn colors. For some time now I wanted to photograph this view and this evening I had the perfect conditions. Nice soft sidelight, a colorful forest below and a beautiful blue sky.
Tech: for this resutl I blended a couple of photos, one for the foreground, then one for the sky and one with me in the frame. In PS I put all together.
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This afternoon's view from Anza-Borrego Desert State Park. The spindly plants in the foreground are ocotillo and are trees - not cacti. After the rain last week, the ocotillo have some nice orange blooms on them. These mountains are to the north.
Foreground rocks? Check.
Groynes? Check.
Isle of Wight and the Needles in view? Check.
Big sky? Check.
Milford on Sea from a shoot with www.flickr.com/photos/deceptivemedia/
I'm currently flirting with a blue/subdued processing style at the moment which hopefully works well when the sea and sky are almost matched in tones.
Dramatic light on the peaks at Dream Lake. Lots of fresh powder meant difficulty finding foreground, but I quite like this snowdrift at the east end of the lake.
Long exposure taken from a great spot at the Narrow Neck Peninsula in Blue Mountains. I loved the strange rock pattern in the foreground and loved the motion of the trees and clouds. To me the trees looked like a dream maker, weaving the fabric of the clouds and creating their motion towards me.
Got to this spot as soon as the crossings went off, and didn't get the CPL shot, sheeeeeeeiiiiiiit. NS 3673 and 2 other NS units power this manifest south (technically west here) down the line. A railfan in the foreground waves at the train, don't know who he was.
The Mam Tor end of Edale Valley. It's almost like an alien landscape, especially in this light. In daylight the little mounds in the foreground look like they are probably manmade. I wonder if they are the "slag heaps", or "Spoil Heaps" from quarrying?
I shot this from a three different angles to experiment with foregrounds. Which do you prefer? The other two are in my photostream.
Olympus OM-D E-M5 MarkII, M.Zuiko 9-18mm f/4-5.6, Benro FTA28CV1 tripod.