Saguaros

Cornflake

From Saturday morning. Criticism is welcome.

Eia

Number 2!!!!! The detail, lighting, comp. After that number three for same reasons... though the light is a bit more stark. that's the desert we know and love! The first seems a bit soft and it doesn't have attention...at least for me but the others make up for it !!!!

CatOne

#2 is my favorite as well, because the backlighting on the cactuses is GREAT. Also, the color of the light is great. I like how you've used the cactus in the last 2 frames to obscure the sun and get good backlighting.

I think with the backlighting it might have been a lot of fun to play around with various compositions of the backlight cacti; some even tighter crops with no sky in them!

Cornflake

Eia, CatOne, thank you.

CatOne, scenes with saguaros are hard to photograph, for me, because they're very vertical in a horizontal landscape and because they distort so easily. I like your idea of backlighting with no sky but I'll have to think about whether there's a way to do it.

CatOne

Cornflake wrote: »

Eia, CatOne, thank you.

CatOne, scenes with saguaros are hard to photograph, for me, because they're very vertical in a horizontal landscape and because they distort so easily. I like your idea of backlighting with no sky but I'll have to think about whether there's a way to do it.

Yes, for saguaros it would definitely be tough to eliminate the sky I was thinking of the cholla and prickly pear. Though after a MTB crash where I dove into a cholla, I think it would be hard for me to look at it in any light and see it as "beautiful"

kdog

All three winners, Don. The lighting in #2 is very nice. But the back-lighted saguaros against the mountain in #1 is pretty tasty too.

Cornflake

Thanks very much, Joel.