Project Day 3

The project for Day 3 of the Better Landscapes in Just 7 Days tutorial is to "Take a landscape photo using as many composition rules as possible to make your framing visually appealing as it can be."

Here are the results of today's shoot taken at Inch Castle in Co. Donegal:

I am quite pleased with this photo even though the castle is quite small. I wanted to show the castle ruin in its surroundings, and the cloudy grey sky had just cleared a bit to add some colour to the sky. I used the burial mound both as foreground and a leading line towards the castle, while the hedgerow on the left provides a diagonal leading line. Finally, the fields across the water also acts as a leading line to the ruins. Perhaps I should have cropped the photo a bit at the top, however, so that the sky wasn't so dominating and the ruins stood out more as the focal point.

This photo of Inch Castle is taken from the field in front of it. Basically, I just used the bushes to the right to lead into the image.

Finally, the composition of this photo of the burial mound near the ruins was achieved by accident. I just wanted the marker stone to be on the lower-left intersecting line, but ended up with two diagonal leading lines (the rock in the lower-right hand corner and the rocks of the mound itself).

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