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Tom Walter
02-13-2009, 05:40 PM
I stopped at this roadside scenic pullout one morning in June. The birch as a foreground for the lake caught my eye but the light and colors were so so. As we were driving through the Adirondaks one afternoon in October I kept looking for this pullout. I found it, the light and colors were great and this is the image. Any comments are appreciated.

Nikon D200
Nikon18-200 3.5-5.6 G VR at 18mm
Hand held
1/30 sec at f11 (shooting at hyperfocal distance)
ISO 200

Harold Davis
02-13-2009, 06:06 PM
nice colors, tom! it needs a little counter clockwise rotation to straigten the horizon line. personally, i think i would crop off a little on the right. enough to evict the birch trunk that is going out of the frame.

1/30s is pretty slow to handhold. a tripod would definitely help get sharper images. keep em coming!!

David Thomasson
02-13-2009, 10:19 PM
Beautiful color and composition. I think it needs a little CCW rotation.

Wheeler McDougal Jr.
02-14-2009, 04:52 PM
Thought I would take the advice of some of the others and I straightened the skyline and cropped off the tree on the right. I think it looks better, except I miss the color of the trees across the lake between the right tree and it's main group of trunks.