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
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
South Sister from Sparks Lake (Oregon)
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