Agree. Crop from bottom, but not so much
Shouldnt cut the clouds.

The key for another landscape - the trees - is contrast.
It is nice scenery but you are still lacking light and vivid colors.
There is a kind of mist on it. Using levels it is very easy to make it shine.
Of course only my opinion



or maybe even like this:

Thanks Mark and Mark !

I was told in flickr that the pic needs crop. I came to the same result: there are several (too manY) nice ways to crop. And I am not very sure does it need cropping at all. Number of viewers = number of opinions.

The ladybird doesnt need to be large at all. I prefer it to be tiny fragile but brave bright spot climbing lava stones. Lot of emptyness around (beneath) him.

The web exactly in the corner - maybe too artificial. While shooting I avoided it And placed it as close as seemed sensible.
Matter of taste, as all the cropping work.

Portray is interesting - I didnt come to that idea before

Thanks for opinions and showing the crops.
(No need to remove ! )

If it was weekly comp, I would enter this
https://www.pentaxuser.com/photo/user-5931/dress-up-8447

Some advice about a crop please.
I feel helpless.

This could have been an entry to comp "Italy".


Shot in Sicily

The sky is not equal and makes the difference to come out more....but THERE IS difference! I have noticed the CA with 16-50 guite often.

Hefty,
The lens is not mine (35), so the decision is still not made
I happened to go to Tallinn because of my work and stole some time for going to the shop (nearby) specially because of the testing .... (The lens is not available at my hometown and cant be ordered only for testing . )

I defenetly know now, that I am not going for Sigma 105Macro (its nice, but less of use for me) and I like the 35 MacroLtd. But ...ehhh.... It IS lot of money.
I do have only two days left for my vacation trip - so I do not succeed in ordering it for that time. I must look round now with another thought: how often will I feel that I miss the lens

I bought a polarizer filter instead As I know there will be some wide scenery waiting for me with lot of sky etc

Hmmmm
Do not turn attention to the focus of the crop - I wasnt focusing to that place, so at f 2.8 it is not expected to be in focus.
Its just the color abbervation !!!

1. DA16-50 at f 2.8



crop of it



2. Macro35Ltd at f2.8



and crop of it

nice

Beautiful !
1. Is it desaturated? Yes or no, but I like it
2. I like the two directions of the waves

I gave another try to the lily. Here is one without any crop
and also with light area up-left cut away.
I feel bit sry about the cropped one, as this made me to crop out lot of nice water and also some droplets.
If you get a better crop, or anything could be still improved - let me know




cropped: