After a week in the Pilbara shooting the Annular eclipse and editing up a video, it was nice to get away from the light pollution of Newman and venture into the untouched wilderness of the Hamersley Range. A stark beautiful landscape that I never tire off.
Taken around magic moon (1/3 moon), at iso 5000, f/2.8, 14 mm, 20 sec on Canon 6D + Nikon 14-24.
Paul, I'm with you on the comp. Not sure myself. It doesn't grab me as much as some others, maybe the elements aren't quite positioned right? Always a hard one to get right.
Paul, I'm with you on the comp. Not sure myself. It doesn't grab me as much as some others, maybe the elements aren't quite positioned right? Always a hard one to get right.
I reckon it is because of the rule of threes issue Colin. I think if you were able to have only one third of the frame from left to right with the bulky foreground and it tapering from top 2/3rds on the left down to 1/3rd on the right then this would really work well. That is most likely not available at that shooting position. It is often hard to find that position and work well with the night too, as well as other factors like weather and time to really spend at a site.
Great balance in the exposure, with the well exposed foreground and detail in the sky. Awesome work with the reflection as well. Cant wait to explore our outback and the beautiful locations like this.
One suggestion with the composition is maybe a portrait orientation instead of landscape would have worked better with all the elements in the shot.
Did you take any shots of this in portrait orientation? That might have avoided the rule of threes issue that Paul mentions above. Might have been difficult to get the white gum tree and MW in the same field though.
Perfect Colin. Classic "Rule Of Thirds" composition certainly can be hard some times, especially with night scapes in an awesome location like this. Sometimes you just need to do the landscape justice like you have here. One of the main reasons I often do panoramas is to include all the elements that I want in scene with enough room to play around with the final composition. You don't have that luxury with a timelapse though (and please tell me that there is a timelapse of this scene lurking on your hard drive somewhere) so sometimes......well, rules are made to be broken.
