Pine Glades Lake Sunset

[Garry Gibson]

I barely got to the park as the sun was going down and managed
to get my tripod up as the sun was setting. Lucky for me a few
clouds drifted in.

Mark1 DSII
24-105
24 MM
f11 1/250
No cropping, some Topaz Adjust
Hitech soft 6 ND Grad Filter

BTW I know it appears that the lake might be unlevel
but when I looked at it on the grid view on Lightroom it looks
pretty straight.

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2788/4331406742_4cb9e08b8f_o.jpg

[Dave Mills]

Hi Gary, Very nice image caught at just the right time. The clouds and their reflections make the image. If this were my image I would take out the foreground foliage on the lower left and give the image some CCW rotation.
Pleasing image!!

[Dave Leroy]

Lovely light and reflections. Well done. Dave

[Randy Stout]

Garry:

I am def. not a landscape guy, but I wish that the sun was just the slightest bit stronger here (more visible)

All the lovely leading lines from the clouds, shore, etc., and I wish there was that strong destination point in the image.

Forgive my tweaking, but since I couldn't change the suns visibility, I lightened the area where it is, increased the saturation, cropped up, did a few tweaks to luminosity and sat. in the clouds.

Just some tweaks to consider.

Cheers

Randy

[Markus Jais]

I like this a lot. The combination of the blue and orange tones are great. I like the placement of the horizon.

Markus

[Garry Gibson]

Thanks to all for the great comments and advice. I took several shots and now I
going to see if I can find a capture that will let me keep the great clouds
and get rid of the branches in the bottom.

again thanks

[Dave Blinder]

Beautiful lake scene Garry, love the colors in the clouds.. I like Randy's re-post, and would also try to avoid the branches.