After admiring the photos already posted this month, I am really embarrassed to post my strictly amateur shots. But then maybe someone here really likes aspen shots...
View attachment 589987
NEVER BE EMBARRASSED TO POST! - sorry for shouting.
One of the key benefits of this forum over other more serious forums is that we are a friendly bunch, we will give comment and commentary in a way to help you, not to make you feel inadequate. There are a couple on here who are better than the majority of us, some who wish to make that fact known but on the whole, we are cool and up for a laugh and generally, just want to take better pictures.
You say it yourself, "after admiring the photos already posted THIS MONTH"... precisely that, this month, as in the latest point in all of our own personal journeys. We all started out amateurish, some of us are still amateurish, but all of us have benefitted from posting on here.
I remember when I first started having the courage to post in here and I started to self criticise. I was reminded of a key point:-
You post, then it is OUR job to criticise... but we will do so in a pleasant, non aggressive, non derogatory way (well at least until you know us better then we will maybe take the safety off a bit).
Point is, you are on a journey, you are learning the same as we are. If you look back to our old posts from last year, you will see that we are improving greatly in the artistic quality of our shots. That is all because we have interacted and taken part.
Now, lets look at your image here of the Aspens. Before I start, it is not a bad image it is nice to look at and I said before you will get bored taking pictures of them before I get bored looking at them. I caveat this in that I am an amateur, I have no artistic qualification on which to base this commentary other than it is what I think I would have looked for, so feel free to ignore me.
Nice bright colours, not a dull bland image but could maybe benefit from some vibrance. It could do with a focal point. It is a tad anonymous as to what it is you want us to look at. Focus on having a subject or a story to tell with your image. I think in this image the story is about the colour contrast between the Aspens, their gorgeous golden colour verses the greenery around them. Think about what was it specifically you saw that made you think "that looks nice", then get in tight and really emphasise that or even go wide and put it in perspective. Think about composition. The easiest is rule of thirds. Give the viewer some sense of context. The composition is the significant difference between a snapshot that you need to narrate vs. a photograph that speaks for itself.
Is that OK?
_DSC2815
