Pressed for time and tried a quick shot this morning but didn't like how it turned out. So posting this one from last weekend, which I processed a few days ago, for Day 7. Don't really love it, but wanted to post something for today.
No fill flash used ... the light on the branches in the foreground is from the setting sun. This was taken about an hour before sunset (just a few minutes before my Day 6 entry, in fact), and the sun was low in the horizon so illuminating the branches which were fairly low to the ground.
Like the idea for moving back and shooting long, but that woulda put me in the middle of JFK Drive -- not a good place to be when hundreds of cars are pouring on and off of the Great Highway!
Do you see the Tyrannosaurus Rex? He's standing on his hind legs on the lower large limb with his back to the windmill. The branch on straight line to the left of the windmill arms is his forelimb, and the part in front of the connecting branch is his head. Framing shots are tough to do well, and this is nice.
Very interesting composition! I really love the debth of this (and I don't mean just DOF). It would have been perfect if you could have gotten the windmill completely centered in the "window" and perhaps smaller. I see you shot at f4 so you must have been on the wide end of the 18-50. Would moving back further and shooting longer make the windmill smaller? I know it would compress the DOF, but I can't work out in my feeble little brain if it would have made the windmill smaller.
Did you use fill flash to get some light on the foreground? If so you sure did a good job controlling the amount (FEC?) as to not kill the shadows. Very well done.
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