Landscape - Valee

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    For my favorite landscape photos, I chose one from our recent class trip and one taken from the VU PAC plaza.  I am really happy with both, although I wish I had a zoom lens for the latter. They take on very different color pallets, and I quite enjoy the contrast.
    In my photo of the field of cattails, I really enjoy the all-over grey tones. It captures our foggy day well, I think. I am delighted with the focus I got on the cattails themselves and the misty silhouettes of the trees in the background. I put the horizon line in the center of the photo, and I wonder if it would've been more intriguing if I had put the horizon line in the bottom third. 
    My second photo has such vibrant blues! Between the bay, crane, the mountain range, and the train cars, I got similar blues across all levels of the photo. I did my best to line up each level of depth with the photo thirds, which turned out well. The plants in the foreground are quite blurred, and I wish I had played with my focus depth more. I also wish I had tried multiple angles of approach to the plants, as a diagonal there would've been more dynamic. I wonder if playing with white-point would have gotten me more definition on the mountain range, as I wish it were a bit starker against the sky. My favorite part of the photo is the train going by.
 

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