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    Photographed in the autumn in North Wales.

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    Lovely shot and scene. I love the trees, fence line and stonework at the top of the image.

    I think you've put too much emphasis on the water, pulling us away from the truly interesting part of the image. I think cropping off the bottom of the image, right below the last step down, would give more balance and draw us up toward the fence.

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    Hello Dave. Thanks for the comments. Yes, you are right about the crop, I thought the same myself after I had posted. You know what it's like though - Iv'e got a super duper wide angle lens and I'm going to use every last bit of it!

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    I really like the color tone on this one. The lushness of that green is just sublime. I agree with the water being too strong of a component in the foreground not only in size but also in exposure. The highlight in the water movement pulled my eyes away from the beautiful background.

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    Hi David

    Do like this, its beautiful setting.. Agree with the crop off the bottom, although probably not quite as much as Dave suggests. I would also add a bit of selective NR on the water only and biased towards the LRC. The water their has a grainy look.

    Don

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    Quote Originally Posted by David Cowling View Post
    Hello Dave. Thanks for the comments. Yes, you are right about the crop, I thought the same myself after I had posted. You know what it's like though - Iv'e got a super duper wide angle lens and I'm going to use every last bit of it!
    Understood. I've found that half the job in using my ultra-wide is to think of the crop as I'm shooting it. I'll use it to get really wide, but realize that it's taking in a lot of uninteresting sky and/or foreground, but I'm thinking to myself, "A 5:2 crop will really bring out all that great stuff in the middle and I'll have a one-shot panorama."

    As I look at it again, I can't help but think that the lens distortion (there must have been some) was nicely handled.

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