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Tom Walter
05-03-2009, 05:17 PM
I liked this composition and had left my tripod position when I saw the canoe coming. I had to scramble to set up the tripod again on a pile of rocks and click the shuter while the canoe was in a good location. As a result my shutter speed was slower than I would like and the canoe is a bit soft. Unfortunately the breeze started to appear so the reflections are washed out. Your comments are welcome.

Nikon D200
Nikon18-200 3.5-5.6 G VR at 38mm
1/30 sec at f 13
ISO 200
Tripod

kevinmat
05-03-2009, 06:04 PM
Lovely image Tom, the canoe adds to the scene so nice capture

Rene Quenneville
05-04-2009, 11:29 AM
beautiful image. Great composition and colors. You could burn the foreground elements (Lower Left Corner) by half a stop in order to draw the eye more to the mountains.

Randy Stout
05-04-2009, 12:39 PM
Tom:

I agree with Rene's thought on the left lower corner. Here is a very quick job of that, see what you think. I believe it doesn't distract from the mountains quite so much, but still visually leads the eye into the picture.

Randy

Paul Marcellini
05-05-2009, 07:18 AM
A really nice comp. Great leading lines and well done for the scramble. I like the repost. The light isn't my favorite but I understand not every shot can be in perfect light.

Grady Weed
05-05-2009, 09:52 AM
Excellent re-post. Make the adjustments in the RAW file and print this one out!

Tom Walter
05-05-2009, 11:40 AM
Thanks to Rene and other for the suggestions. Here's the repost. I reduced the exposure for the RAW image by 1/2 stop and added the layer to the original image. I masked out everything except the rocks in the left foreground. How does this look? Did I darken the rocks too much?

Tom

Grady Weed
05-05-2009, 03:03 PM
I like your re-post. The rocks do not look too dark to my eye.

Roman Kurywczak
05-06-2009, 04:15 PM
Hi Tom,
Very good advice given above and the re-post does look good (nice job Randy on the recommendation!). As apul mentioned......the light isn't the most spectacular but it always can't be......so nicely handled and composed.

Randy Stout
05-06-2009, 04:18 PM
Roman:

I can't take credit for the original suggestion re:burning in the rocks on left lower corner. I just took the idea and ran with it. So, give Rene credit for 1st voicing the thought.

Randy

Roman Kurywczak
05-06-2009, 04:22 PM
Sorry Rene! Guess I need to speed read a bit better!