Photograph #041 The Grass Is Good
July 10th, 2010
But the sagebrush, not so much
Vast distances are a challenge
From my position, it’s about quarter mile straight down and easily a half-mile outward to the cattle, and then it’s another three miles and more up the other side. Getting all that distance into a photograph and still holding a sense of scale can be difficult. I attempted to include a bit of a nearby pine tree to anchor the eye, but it was too close for focus, thus going against the accepted wisdom that one should never have an out-of-focus foreground in a landscape photograph.
So you judge: Does the pine tree work as a anchor, out of focus or not?
July 11th, 2010 at 9:54 pm
I had to look twice to see the cattle and I wouldn’t have noticed the pine tree in the foreground if you hadn’t mentioned its significance. Being from Wyoming I know that’s a HUGE piece of land you photographed there. Personally my eye wants to see more of the sky in this particular shot. I keep wanting the lens to turn upward. Does that help?