Large Format Landscapes

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Originally Posted by Old-N-Feeble

Human beings, for the most part, learn visually.

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No, there are a variety of learning styles, everyone is a little different.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learning_styles
This is a common topic in education courses (one of my undergraduate degrees is in education). The Wikipedia mentions the hypothesis is "contested" but I think the main issue is non of us are wholly one type or another.

Personally I discovered ages ago I am a kinesthetic learner. Getting my hands dirty and working through problems works well for me. Hence why the technical parts of photography, music, and other things have come naturally to me.

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Originally Posted by Old-N-Feeble

I agree with this. IMHO, the image would be much stronger (cleaner/simpler) as a panorama with the foreground cropped away. The foreground only distracts from the otherwise very beautiful composition.

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Thank you! I made a recomposition according to your advise :)

https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7592/...80ece491_o.jpg

Antero... I think that's a wonderful image. I like it very much. Have you considered a little feathered burning of the foreground and sky? Not too much... just enough to darken the top and bottom a little bit. This will help anchor the edges and gently draw the eye to the center.

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Originally Posted by AnteroP

Too bright light and no clouds to be an interesting picture. I was merely testing Fomapan 200 @ 125. Souped in Rodinal 1+50, 9 min. I am quite happy with the results.

https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8690/...3f0de6a7_b.jpg

MPP Micro Technical VI, Symmar 150 f5.6 @f22

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I like this shot with the foreground included, to each their own I suppose :)

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Originally Posted by Old-N-Feeble

I agree with this. IMHO, the image would be much stronger (cleaner/simpler) as a panorama with the foreground cropped away. The foreground only distracts from the otherwise very beautiful composition.

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Sorry, I was not clear. I was wanting to crop from the top down to get rid of the trees.

April fields. At the horizon you will see the ski jumping hill of Lahti :) (twelve miles from the camera)

https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7706/...eb15e705_o.jpg

Symmar 150mm, Fomapan 200, Xtol 1+1

Let me make it clear - I'm not saying that presenting things in different ways has no value, or that people don't have preferred modes of receiving information, but according to many there is not sufficient evidence to indicate that understanding is greater when presentation is matched with the preferred mode.

Here's a starting point:

http://www.aft.org/ae/summer2005/willingham

Others echo what he says, but I'm open to reading any studies suggesting otherwise! :)


Corran,

I would suggest that your need to get your hands dirty simply suggests that the things you are learning involve getting your hands dirty - the referenced article alludes to matching the learning approach with the content.

Not to veer too far off-topic but what I mean is after I do something with my hands once I know and understand it, such as writing out a math problem and going through the steps to solve it, while just listening to a lecture or seeing it done on a whiteboard doesn't do anything for me. Another example was a tough class with a lot of reading. I read while walking a 1/2 mile to the class and for some reason retained more than I have ever done in a heavy reading class, which I was never good at. Anecdotal I know, but there it is.

Yes, a person must actively engage in learning for it to be effective!

Again, for those of you that have any interest at all, the two books I referenced initially are both enjoyable and informative. (And both are based on research.)

OK, I'll let it go now. :D

I hope no one minds. I find educational theory quite interesting. When I got into the classroom with little snot-nosed punks, I found it less so (no offence to those with children...).
I enjoy teaching in a collegiate setting much more.