Getting It At The Time

04/06/2018

Whilst this image has a certain potential, it does have some issues, mainly relating to the image crop. I have been struggling to find a crop that does not include too much foreground, distractive bright white clouds on the frame edge and does not crop through any of the sun rays. The reason for constraining the crop relate mainly to trying to preserve an aspect ratio for printing and mounting for entry into salons and for the above reasons this places some constraints on what I can do. Also, the size of the crop means a significant reduction in the image resolution which will impact upon print quality. Truth be told the mistake was made at the time of shooting. The shot was taken at the end of a walk when I was starting to feel a little tired, the evening was turning chilly & I was 45 min late from the time I said I would be home. So rather than taking the time to get the shot right, which would have involved taking filters off, changing lens, replacing filters and walking to the edge of the hill to get rid of the foreground, I thought chances are in this light I ain't going to get any decent shots so why bother I'll just shoot from here with the wide angle. As a result rather than getting a winning shot I got a pretty good shot. Moral of this tale is you should always take the time to get it right!