I thought this Forum needed to have a Landscape section as well. Many including myself update in the Wildlife section often and I would love to see that caried into this thread. I know most of you are great photographers and most likely have some awesome Lanscape's to share.

Photo was taken in a remote locale on the coast of Maui .

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Heres another Landscape, this one taken just the other day. There have been some truley spectacular sunsets in the past week here in So. California. Photo of Newport Harbor at Sunset.

D1x 300mm AF-S II ISO 125 Cloudy WB.

like the colors in your Maui shot

attached another shot of a falls in Northern Ontario, Canada

Paul

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Thanks for starting a landscape thread. I had the same idea and hoped someone would be interested.

Here is one I really like. Grand Tetons in June.

Dan

Dan,
Can you provide some specs that you used to make that shot? Just curious.

~Tim

Mission San Juan Capistrano. Located in Southern Californian, the Mission San Juan is by far the nicest of the California Missions and is well deserving of its tittle "Jewel of the Misions."

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Heres another shot of the Mission, this one was shot through some vines. I was trying to incorperate the lovely gardens and plant life that is at the Mission. I personally really like how it looks, but would love to hear what others have to say!

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Putting a landscape thread on my wildlife forum...well!

Here's my two cents worth on this topic. While it applies to many topics, it's very important you incorporate in great landscape images the Trio--foreground, middleground and background! Whether you achieve this with three separate elements or lighting or optics or a combination of those and other techniques, you've got to have the Trio to give your landscape images visual depth! No visual depth and you have no more than a "I was here" photo.

The attached is an example of the Trio where the rocks are the foreground, the lighthouse the middleground and the clouds the background. To pull the background, a split graduated netural denisty filter was used.

The Trio really is only the basic ground work for a great landscape photo. Light being the most important with everything else filling in the blanks.

Moose

Moose,
I think a landscape can succeed without having all three, but the trio defintly looks better. I'm not sure if this shot falls under the trio standards, but it still works for me! In the foreground is the ocean, in the middle is the subject(s) and in the distance is the skyline.
Lone rocks off the coast of the Pacific.
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Personal satifaction is the most important part of photography, so I'm glad you like your work.

But the image you posted has no visual depth, an empty sky doesn't really create a stage for your subject which is the middleground. The rock being dead center I think is also a big problem, no visual excitement.

If your goal is to grab folks heart strings and get them to "fall" into your landscape images, you can't get around the Trio. It's been around for over a century for a very good reason.

Moose