Opinions Wanted

[toosuto]

I've taken quite a few landscape shots since I've been in Scotland but more often than not I've ended up deleting them (or best just burying them in iPhoto and never looking again). Behind the cut are three shots from Castle Edinburgh and if you have an opinion on what works and what doesn't I'd like to hear it because I just don't seem to have a handle on it.

A word of warning I may have edited and reloaded the photos based on previous feedback, just in case a any of the feedback below seems strange or just wrong. Also concrete answers, of course, are much better than general comments (i.e. "the crane in the second picture breaks up the flow of the photo from point a to point b" rather than "the crane gives me hives").

Comments

landscape photos

[(Anonymous)]

Of the three I'm drawn to the one at the bottom. The first two appear to me to be too busy in composition. The last one, however, presents to the eye an interesting juxtopositioning of nature and its inclusion, (or exclusion) of urban sprawl. I'm also taken with the fact that I can recognize Walter Scott's tower on the right and the Firth of Fourth on the horizon. Overall, a great picture. Aunt Jan

Re: landscape photos

[toosuto.livejournal.com]

Maybe that's part of my problem, how does one compose a photo of stuff from far away and avoid the busy problem?