I rather like the sky in this...it looks quite natural and contrasts well with the white cliffs and the colour of the sea. The tiny boats give scale to the massive cliffs.
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This is advanced composition, not done to be different for difference sake but for maximum effect. It isolates the subject and in so doing forces attention on the point of the picture.
It does, however, observe one classic rule of composition, the subject is close to the intersection of the thirds.
I can imagine some of the more cloth headed camera club judges dismissing this with horror while their more enlightened colleagues might welcome it as a breath of fresh air.
Perhaps a winner of a weekly or monthly competition can chose this is a subject in the near future?
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It certainly is Nigel. So's the K30.
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Excellent idea to do a series like this Andrew. Top marks for the imagination and top marks for the quality of the pictures.
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Great set of images Barrie. I've been to this railway quite a few times and its always offered fine photo opportunities. The St Lamiel picture is the most impressive for me but they all pack plenty of historical atmosphere.
The 9F also reminds me of the Tyne Dock-Consett iron ore trains. They used to come rattling past my house and when I was a young reporter on the local paper I managed to con British Rail into giving me a footplate pass from Tyne Dock to Consett so I could write a feature on how iron ore was delivered to the steelworks. It was a very dramatic experience.
The 9F in your picture has just been painted green and given the name Cromwell. Last year it was in British Rail black and carried the name Cock o the North on the North Yorkshire Moors Railway.
As for Newcastle United...the less aid the better.
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This is a really lovely landscape. Classic view of a tranquil lake with distant mountains, Snowdon I believe, and the icing on the cake; the little clump of reeds adding foreground interest.
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Perhaps if we could have seen more of the water and less of the land this might have worked better. The rocky foreground is a good base to the picture but the rather heavy colour of the fellside is heavy going.
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Assuming that its not turned up in your great granddad's old trunk you have perfectly replicated a period piece photo from a modern re-enactment event.
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Plus a fine tea room at Quorn, Andrew.
Thanks for the comments, take the point about cropping No.3 Kris.
Barrie, I went to Tanfield rather than the camera club project at Stanhope Show. Don't grass me up.
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Two very good pictures Stan. Of the two I prefer Hareshaw Linn which packs in more fine detail. The foreground in the mono view of Bamburgh beach seems a little dense on my monitor. Hareshaw Linn on the other hand has captured fine detail, particularly the beautiful texture on the right side of the waterfall. If you followed Nigel's suggestion of cropping the top to get rid of the bright area of sky you would be in danger of bringing the top of the waterfall too close to the edge of the frame.
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