[goatsNdonkey]

Old Red Brick School, Smithfield, Illinois.




The Spoon River at Bernadotte, Illinois. The missing span of the old iron bridge, partially removed by floodwaters a few years ago, is sitting on blocks in the town. The intention is to reattach it and restore the bridge for foot traffic again.




Anderson Lake, a floodplain lake of the Illinois River, between Havana and Beardstown, Illinois. Most of the surface is frozen when this shot was taken.


All three of these: DA 18-135 WR, K10D, 24mm, f/8. ISOs increased from shot to shot, as it got progressively more overcast and darker that afternoon.

[sergeremy]

On the banks of the Charente river, from Rochefort to the Isle of Aix...

[paulh]

American Airlines Museum in Ft. Worth TX, Jan 2015. Vivitar 19/3.8 on *ist D:

[acoufap]

It was snowing the whole day. In the afternoon I took two cameras, two lenses and backpack and went on a 12km hike ... two images of the day ...





If you have a closer look at the darker parts of the first image you'll see the snow coming down at FF/88mm. The second image shows the environment at APS-C / 11mm. The lenses I used were WR and AW. I wouldn't have taken the DA15 Ltd in this weather. Two cameras so no lens change needed. Although I had three more in the backpack. When I came back home I looked like a snow man and both cameras were covered by snow. Great to own cameras and lenses that allow such!

[robgski]

[Arjay Bee]

Trinity Bay - Cairns
Samsung S20

[pepperberry farm]

[pepperberry farm]

[mattb123]

On the ice

[ffking]

Another of my sandscapes - the Loughor estuary seems to have some eddies and drainage routs that create really interesting shapes in the lo tide sand.

[steamloco76]

A Norfolk Southern EMD/Progress Rail SD70ACe has just crested the grade at Smiths Station near Blairsville, Pennsylvania. Only the second bituminous coal train on this historic (1856 constructed) rail line in ten months. K-3 w/60-250 f4.

[acoufap]

Reflections.

Captured at 105mm | aspect ratio 16:9



IMO it's very important to crop to aspect ratios and areas that don't represent the full sensor when composition cries for it.

K-1 and DFA28-105.

[ffking]

IMO it's very important to crop to aspect ratios and areas that don't represent the full sensor when composition cries for it.

There's a little bit of me that still sees it as a failure on my part if I can't make a a pleasing image in the camera's format (years of shooting slide film probably a major contributor here) - but I agree in principle - some scenes just don't work in 3x2 or whatever, for many different reasons - including intruding objects as well as aesthetics

[paulh]

Winter flow...

[acoufap]

There's a little bit of me that still sees it as a failure on my part if I can't make a a pleasing image in the camera's format (years of shooting slide film probably a major contributor here) - but I agree in principle - some scenes just don't work in 3x2 or whatever, for many different reasons - including intruding objects as well as aesthetics

I started with 35mm film and slides nearly 40 years ago. Every image at 3:2 - for years. Main principles and aspects I understood early and I even have two magazines of that time when all started seriously more seriously when I bought a new Pentax ME Super with M1.7/50. My slides I projected using two projectors. Dissolving a landscape into a portrait format image and vice versa appeared to look distracting. So I stuck to landscape 3:2. Today when I scan film and slide images I sometimes crop and get much better compositions and thus stronger images.

When I went digital cropping came into play. And after reading Bruce Barnbaum's "The Art of Photography" (1. Edition) I dived deeper into composition aspects of photographs and from then assessed my images differently looking at possible distractions, relationships between subjects, perspective etc. Now I'm convinced that composition is a main aspect to transfer our message strongest to the viewers and ourselves.

Some of my images I let fine art print professionally. They hang on the wall.

Every time I look at some of them I feel happy. They are of different aspect ratio - also crops at 1:1 and 4:3 not solely 3:2. No rule for "the best". It simply depends on our ideas, light and shadow, the subject(s) and composition.

Many thanks for your comment - I appreciate it!