Yeh, WOW!! Great! The only thing that seems to detract here for me is the yellow near the right frame edge, my eye seems to be directed to this area. Awesome shot Doug!
Super image Doug. The colours are out of this world!. The only thing I would like to see is a little more light on the water. Here's a quick retry using a gradient mask to lighten up the "ground" which is opposite to the normal use of this technique (i.e., to darken the sky).
Well done! I agree that the foreground would benefit from being brightened up a little. I like John's repost but I might not brighten FG quite as much. The composition and colors are great. I don't find the yellow in the sky to be distracting. You could try to crop some off the right side but you would lose the goose in the lower right. It makes a good anchor point for the eye after a first quick scan over the image. Congratulations.
#1: I knew I should have stayed.
#2: Did you check the histogram before going to -1 1/3? (If yes, I will assume that it was needed to keep any of the yellow from flashing.
#3: Though I like this image for many reasons, my gut is that there going a bit wider might have resulted in a more powerful image.
#4: This one screams "Stiched Panorama" to me. You can do them handheld as long as you frame loosely.
#5: The original post is definitely blocked up in the foreground (see #2 for why).
#6: John's re-post is good but I would probably perfer something in between.
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Thanks for the thoughtful critique Artie! I wish I'd been able to go wide, but I forgot my 17-40 at home; all I had was my 70-200. I've never done stitched panos before, but I'll have to give them a try. I dialed my exposure down a bit to both help with shutter speed and to accentuate the colors in the sky.
Fantastic image Doug. I like the idea of a "pano stitch" but I think that also works like a single frame. John made a nice work in his repost but I think that both the original and the repost has too much red. Digital cameras tend to easily oversaturate the red channel and I think that this is a good example. If you check the histograma of the red channel you would see what I mean. The blue and green channels are OK. The color is fantastic to our eyes because our eyes and our brain likes saturation a lot but I think that this image would look more natural with some desaturation in the reds. I like the composition a lot and the fact that you placed the sun in the right. Very well done Doug and wish this one would be mine.:p
Last edited by Juan Aragonés; 12-08-2008 at 03:42 AM.
Thanks again to John and then to Juan for the reposts. Note that in each repost, there appears to be sharpness problems witht the geese in the water. A tripod here might have been in order.
And I forgot to mention that 1/125 is an in between shutter speed, to fast for a pleasing blur (on the birds in the sky) and too slow when handholding (in some instances), to render the birds in the water tack sharp.
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