>>4142497The pole shot is vermy much a snapshit, I was lucky enough it was foggy in the early afternoon and my friend didn't step into the frame before I could take rhe photo
The Breacon Beacon ones might be better without all the normie hikers in them, and I especially agree with you on this one. But what can you do on Pen y Fan on a Sunday? At least some of the pictures from this series have a nice reportage feeling to them.
What I noticed is that they are, overall, better than the ones from Pembrokeshire, which include the pipe one, despite me using a CPL and wide angle in both cases
In landscape the subject really makes all the difference, but I feel like this Beacons series is where my photos finally showed some signs if gitting gud.
I have quite a few from North Wales, taken about a year later, and am much more satisfied with how they turned out. But then again, I took way more photos and time there and, interestingly, barely any UWA ones even though in retrospect those are the best pictures from the Beacons series
Your shot is very nicely lit and the b/w certainly captures the contrast well. The CPL(?) vignetting is too heavy for my taste, though, and the shrubs in the foreground give the picture an akward balance. But I'm not sure at all if and how this could be solved by a different crop. I realise you need the trees left and right to add some darker shades to the otherwise uniform grizzle of the mountain and the lesser shrubs
