NEW Basic Assignment #3: Foreground Interest

It feels tha I suck at landscape , and now when everyting is white it just makes it that much harder.

Well well, here two new apempts from todays outing

Both are a700 Sig 17-70
this @ 20 mm f 5,6 1/100 sec ISO 200


and this @ 35 mm f 11 1/500 sec ISO 200


Cheers Christer

Thank you Pieter. It feels good to "bury" this assignment with two pics from a cemetery Now it´s time to prepare my Softness pics.

@ Misi

The foreground interest has to lead the eye to something of interest in the background, and I can't say that you have succeeded with this one. There's nothing wrong with the foreground or the middle but there's nothing at the more distant points that catches the eye.

Please have another try.

@Dudger: Dave, I think that foreground element (fence) and background (building) are too close to each other to serve the purpose of this assignment. The detail in the fence and window are competing with each other as well. Please try again. Thanks... Brian

Hope this works:

Mission Bay in San Diego



EXIF: f/8, 1/500, 100 ISO, +0ev, 20mm, A200, Multi-seg metering

@jvsanchez: Lots of foreground but no real background of interest to draw the viewer to. I know the figure there is your new and beautiful wife, but for the uninitiated observer it's just a very small person standing there. So pls. try again.

@goldsmid: Avery nice picture but even though there is foreground it's quite dark and more like a frame then a real subject that captures the fereground interest and then leads the viewer to the background. It's the light differences that draw the viewer to the clock tower, not so much the foreground subject. So also for you it's please try again.

pegelli wrote: @jvsanchez: Lots of foreground but no real background of interest to draw the viewer to. I know the figure there is your new and beautiful wife, but for the uninitiated observer it's just a very small person standing there. So pls. try again. @goldsmid: Avery nice picture but even though there is foreground it's quite dark and more like a frame then a real subject that captures the fereground interest and then leads the viewer to the background. It's the light differences that draw the viewer to the clock tower, not so much the foreground subject. So also for you it's please try again.

well, whether she likes it or not, my wife was not the subject of that image anyway. i was actually trying to use the rocks to lead the eye back to the harbor and the blue of the water. but i can see where you might be right about the lack of background. i'll give it another go this afternoon. Thanks!