Quote Originally Posted by Neo Emolga View Post
Sounds a lot like where I live! We have a few parks and lakes around here, but there aren't too many "untouched" forests or areas like that still around.

Also, your liking of roads and paths is natural. The viewer tends to have their eyes travel down the path upon looking at the picture for the first time. It's a psychological effect that always happens when you have a picture with a line-shaped feature on a picture, such as a path, railroad tracks, a highway, or anything like that. Like this one. Your eyes will travel in a zig-zag following down that path upon first looking at it.

As a small tip for future photographs, one of the things I learned in my photography classes was to avoid cutoffs, if possible. So for example, that picture with the green bench, make sure the whole bench is in the picture and avoid having the edges get cut off. Centering it before you take the shot also helps. Since you're making it the main subject matter of your shot and that's the thing you want the viewer to focus on the most, it just works better if you capture the entire object in the shot. This picture is really good because you get an awesome sense of depth of field in there, and there's no cutoffs, such as in having only half of a tree in the picture. The entire trunk of the tree on the left is shown. Same thing with this one. The only thing that got cutoff is just the fence.

Don't hesitate to experiment also! Sometimes taking pictures at a different angle works well. A picture taken from ground looking up (as if the one taking the picture was a mouse) could be neat as well.
Thanks for the tips. I had forgotten completely about the cutoffs.

Chances are I wont go shooting tomorrow since it is absolutely pouring and is most likely going to be raining :( Maybe wednesday. But if I get a new camera Friday, I'll try and get out Saturday or Sunday to somewhere new.