Australian Photography — January 2018

A LITTLE CROP
Tim Bruton’s picture shows his  campsite at
Murrindindi Scenic Reserve and the dark skies gave
him a magnificent view of the Magellanic Clouds
high above the gigantic mountain ash. He wrote:
“A couple of hours after the crescent moon had set
the area became very dark, however I added our
camp site in the foreground for scale and interest.
This is a three-shot vertical panorama allowing me
to frame the expanse.”
This is a lovely scene, with the dark trees, those
little white starry pinpricks in the dark sky and the
campsite below. The expanse of sky is amazing,
but the sense of scale is enhanced by the little tent
and car being dwarfed by the tall dark trees leading
into the vast sky. Compositionally, the foreground
interest is too weighted on the left and a bit sparse
on the right, creating an imbalance. I would suggest
cropping the right hand side slightly to balance the
vignetting effect of the trees on the left hand side of
the frame. You could even try a fraction lightening
of the right hand foreground to balance out the left.
However, a pleasing image.

SAIMA’S TIP: Good foreground interest is so
important in images with great expanses of space.

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TITLE: Untitled
PHOTOGRAPHER: Tim Bruton
DETAILS: Canon EOS 6D, Sigma Art 24-105mm @,
24mm focal length,  20s @ f4, 1600 ISO. Stitched in
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small adjustments to shadows, highlights, clarity, dehaze,
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