Japanese Garden Pond

[dankearl]

Portland Oregon Japanese Garden

1/2, f22, iso200, 18mm (nikon 16-35mm f4) D800, CP

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[Jerry van Dijk]

wow Dan, this is really something! The composition is just right with the stones as an entry, lilies as a central subject and the waterfall along the ROT line. The large DOF and excellent details give the illusion that I can just step in and have a look around! One suggstion for improvement to an already great image is to crop slightly from the top to remove the cut-off bright leaves on the tree just left of the centre.
Excellent work!

[Andrew McLachlan]

Hi Dan, this is another lovely comp...the elements are arranged just right for my tastes. One question...I do not use NX2 but I believe there are control points (U-Point Technology)...could you place a control point on the water lily leaves and one on the brighter trees and reduce the brightness ever-so-slightly. Just a thought. Superb work!

[Don Railton]

Hi Dan

This is very beautiful.. I agree with Andrew regarding reducing the brightness of the lilly pond leaves but i would also include most of the foreground below this to take the edge of the bottom of the pond, just a little. I think it would provide a slightly better overall balance of brightness top to bottom..

thanks for showing

DON

[Cheryl Slechta]

Dan, what a lovely garden! I love your composition and the whole feel of the image. I especially like being able to see the stones on the bottom of the pond which adds to the oriental feeling.

[Karen Forderer]

I agree with Cheryl. I really like seeing all the stones under the water. It really adds to my liking of the photo.

[Don Lacy]

Hi Dan, Wonderful image very strongly composed as mention leading the viewers eye thru the image.

[Roman Kurywczak]

Very nice Dan!!! I love everything about this one!!!