image critique

1.) I think this is a really cool photograph. I believe that it could have either been better cropped out or more light brought upon the upper layer of the fog. It has some great shape and formation and I think needs to be focused on a little more to make the picture complete. The vibrancy is lacking and the multitude of colors could be brought out more.


2.) This looks like a giant prehistoric turtle. The clarity of the picture is not the best in about half of it moving from the bottom left to the top right. This definitely puts the focus on the main large rock itself, but I feel that he could've just simply cropped out the initial sand and smaller rocks instead.


3.) This is a really cool capture of wildlife in motion. The front half of the squirrel is in focus because of the high ISO and Shutter Speed he used. I really enjoy this one and how detailed the squirrel is in its face and feet.

Recently I've been interested in and looking into "hiking the triple crown." The triple crown are the three major hikes across the United States, the Appalachian Trail, the Continental Divide Trail, and the Pacific Crest Trail. I think that all of them would be an awesome experience filled with beautiful scenery and a calm serenity. Each place would consist of their own unique picturesque areas that would be fantastic for photographing. Being from Pennsylvania and near the Appalachian Mountains, I am somewhat biased and think they may offer the best scenery offering beautiful green rolling hills and trees in the summer, wonderful color in the fall, gorgeous snowfall in winter, and amazing flora in the spring.

Winter on the Appalachian Trail

Fall on the Appalachian Trail

The Blue Ridge Mountains on the Appalachian Trail

This is a picture of the Appalachian Trail in October

editing attempt

This was my first attempt at editing using lightroom 5. I first used whatever the program thought that the picture should look like and then did a little manipulation of my own. This picture is of the Grand Tetons from a trip during Fall break 2012. I really wanted to bring out the sunset between the peaks and focused a lot on that area. Unfortunately, my camera is not of very high quality. Thus, the photo is not as good if it was a better more expensive equipment. For example, it is very noisy and grainy regardless of my attempts to minimize it.