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Would love to hear your views and critiques.
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Reminds me of some dreams I've had. Good ones...or at least not horrific ones lol! Oh wait; there was that one time...lol
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Nice atmosphere.
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Are you suggesting a square crop with the central group placed in the errr... centre?
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Kinda. Might be a bit low resolution though with all the rest cropped out.
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Low resolution? My camera knows not the word.
As for the square crop, I have mixed feelings about it. Personally I think that just about every landscape should not be cropped or taken in square format, maybe because of the atmosphere this is different though. A quick question, your old film shots, were they taken in square format, or cropped later on down the line?
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Cropped. I think most landscapes should be square. If you take the pic with square format in mind (which is not true for my older pics) all that does is to include more sky (vertically) in the pic, which, to my eyes is almost always an improvement.
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Really? Interesting, I always found that squares work very well for abstracts such as yours, photos with an atmospheric touch, portraits and some select architecture images (but certainly not all these. I find it brings the scene closer to the viewer, more upclose, more exclusionate, and this is exactly the opposite of what I want a landscape image to show. A wide scene encasing a large area. The square makes the scene feel tighter and smaller in my opinion. And besides, bringing more sky in can easily be achieved...
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I have to agree with you there. I'm generally not a fan of square crops when it comes to nature shots. There are exceptions of course though.
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love the pale mistiness in the patch
of trees and the darker grasses that
surround.
quite dream like
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nice mood! what lenses are you using with the d90?
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lens=singular.
18-70mm but getting a lensbaby composer sometime soon.
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ah cool. that looks like a nice focal range, plus the images seem decently crisp!
dont know much about the lensbaby, looks like a fun thing to play with. what are the reasons you're looking at that? i'm currently looking to increase my lens range (from the singular too lol) to be versatile for whatever i want to shoot. so i assume you're happy with that one lens and range for now?
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18-70 is a very beautiful machine, but then I've been shooting with absolute crap for the past 6 months.
Of course it would be nice to zoom further, but the next up is the 18-200 which is said to be an atrocious lens by most people.
It fits my needs, and I would never carry more then one lens around give or take a lensbaby.
Most people buy a 70-300mm, not sure I'd want one though.
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yeh man! it looks like 18-70 is a great versatile range, especially for the kind of shots you're doing. i've read good things about it.
my 50mm prime is a bit limiting sometimes, i am looking at some wider angle primes and also closer to 85mm. the glass and build of those older lenses are supreme and fast, but cheaper than the newer lenses because of no autofocus etc.
i've heard completely different about the 18-200mm VR! apparently its awesome and versatile. the nikon 55-200mm kit lens is pretty good for being a kit lens too. but you already have a seriously solid lens, you just gotta figure out if you really want that extra reach, or get funky with the lensbaby
i'd only get a zoom lens for sports events etc. i'm looking at trying out some motorsport shots, but i'll need some fast and long lenses, which are bloody expensive!!!
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18-70 is all I need, and all I want for now. Long enough for portraits, short enough for landscapes, dynamic enough for everything, fastish and sharp. A 50mm prime would be nice, but then that is covered by my lens, give or take a bit of DOF, a bit like the lensbaby really, a challenge to use well, although I suppose all primes are, zooms especially. I didn't know about the 55-200, might be something to look at as I would really like to take street portraits, but that can come later, I'm drooling for my lensbaby.
What is like having to use manual focus all the time? Personally I only use it for close ups, long exposures and photos where I want a specific focus. You do a lot of street work which is instantaneous, you must miss a lot, surely? I know I would.
I do the occaisional street photo and it is a genre I love a lot, but I could never use primes to get what I wanted. In such a category, you have to instantly set up your comp, angle, focus, exposure, and if you were using a prime lens, your position, so why not try zooms, give or take a bit of technical quality?
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yeh i think you have all you need for now with that 18-70. i'm not a lens fundi at all, but you should only get a longer lens when you start feeling that you're falling too short, which you say you're not. that's why i suggested that 55-200mm, since its relatively cheap, decent quality, and pretty small so carrying that around with your camera bag (?) is insignificant. blowing money on a good telephoto lens now doesn't sound right for you 
primes are awesome. they're pretty inexpensive, and the older AI lenses are optically perfect. better than they are made today in most cases! zoom lenses for my nikkormat just end up being too big and heavy, that's because its compared to a prime. those things are so small, light and unassuming. super-fast for bad lighting, which i usually find myself in hehe...but with street, zoom is one thing LESS to think about! i miss a lot of opportunities because i am never alone, and usually busy with my hands. but i set the aperture and shutter speed to what i think the exposure should be at whatever location, and also set the focus ring to a distance i think a subject will be. the time spent with the camera at your eye is absolutely minimal when an opportunity presents itself. you can even shoot from the hip because you know what the framing is going to look like already.
manual focus isn't a problem at all. it takes a little getting used to, but it's easy to become efficient at it when you know the aperture you're using and work with the distance gauge settings before even having to focus. you obviously can't compare it to manually focusing an AF lens, since it wasn't built for ease of use. dedicated MF lenses have a proper focusing range which makes it easy to use.
i'd use a zoom lens if it was small, light and fast, but for the older cameras there just aren't any 
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i love the sharpness! what time of day was this taken?
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I want to run around the trees in the middle,really amazing atmosphere my friend !
B&W is good idea to emphasize the feeling of melancholy.
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Thank you very much, I love black and white, you can get so much emotion from the pictures.
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Sure I can (;
You're welcome my friend
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