Sunrise, Nxai pan National Park, Botswana

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Taken on cold May morning, just as we were setting out for game viewing. Details, Canon AE-1P, 28mm f2.8, Manfrotto Tripod, Arca Swiss B1, 1/15 @ f8 (estimated)on Royal Gold 100, scanned on CanoScan FS2710.

-- Chris Ross (chrisx2@loxinfo.co.th), June 24, 2000

Answers

Chris,
You managed to get some great colors and a really nice sky, but that is all this image has going for it. It seems to be sitting on the fence between an abstract study in color and a more concrete lanscape photo but seems to miss both marks. If you are aiming for abstract you need to lose the foreground or reaplce it with something that will pick up the colors like reflections on water. Otherwise you need a stronger foreground--maybe a strong interesting silhouette against the sky to add some intest. As it stands now the cropping is akward because the bushy thing on the right attracts the most attention and the solid black foreground is to heavy and uniteresting to contribute to the beautiful colors in the sky.

-- Mark Meyer (mark@photo-mark.com), June 24, 2000.

I saw a cool photo recently where the photographer facing a similar problem...lack of interesting foreground ... created one in silouhette <<(check my spelling). What he did was have set himself up with tripod in silou..(someone help me with the rest of the spelling). His friend capped off an interesting autobiographical shot of him doing nature photography.....Just a creative throught.

Regarding the shot...would this be a good time to consider a graduated neutral density filter to hopefully bring some detail in foreground...assuming there is something there worth bringing out.

-- Mark LaGrange (mark.lagrange@nml.com), June 29, 2000.


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