Landscape Photoshoot - Kivrin

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This was taken from the tower at the Tennant Lake Fragrance Garden. I didn't exactly chose this location, but was brought here despite never having heard about this before. I chose this photo because when taking it off the camera for the first time, I was stunned by the warm, sepia-esc colors I managed to capture. This image hasn't been visually altered or cropped in any way and is the raw file I got straight off the camera. The reason everything is so warm is because I maxed out my white balance temperature and aimed this photo directly at the sun (hence why everything is so visually dark).

I genuinely love this photo. As for a critique, what is probably the most glaring issue is the graininess of the photo. But honestly, I think it adds to the feeling of this image being more like a painting. If you zoom in on any part of the photo, you can see that its made up of many splotches of greens and reds that in my opinion adds to the painting feel. I enjoy the colors the most as I have already established, but as for framing, I also like the way the photo is laid out. There is a distinct separation between foreground and background and the sun, people walking, and some of the distinct trees all follow the rule of thirds to a pleasant degree. 

This photo was taken at Sandy Point, once again being a place I didn't chose to go to, but was taken to. In the brief time we had here, I was having a lot of trouble getting any photos through the dense fog, but I managed to capture this desolate foggy piece. The colors and lighting are pretty flat, which I'm not a fan of. But it does evoke a sort of horror movie vibe. I really enjoy the two unidentifiable mysterious figures in the distance and I believe they are what makes this photo interesting. Once again, the grain is very high which I do not like. I'm not able to see a live view of my photos and the camera screen is too small for me to identify grain in stored photographs so I need to keep in mind this limitation. I like the way everything is framed in this photo, once again having a distinct foreground and background. The water here curves very nicely two thirds of the way towards the left side of the photo, then turning right and leading the eyes to the obscured figures. Overall, I am less proud of this photo, but I wanted to keep up the fog theme and show two very different takes on the same thick Washington fog (both photos were taken on the same day with similar weather between the locations).

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