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    Trying to learn to improve my landscapes. Thank you Paul and Roman. This one from Saturday evening just after sunset.
    40D with 10-22mm lens at 18mm. polarizer and 3 stop gradND filter.
    ISO 400, f16, 2.5 sec, EV +.67 - tripod

    Critiques welcome.

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    Hi Susan
    I like this very much. Wonderful colors and composition.
    Two things draw me back though.
    The image can benefit from a bit of sharpening - it looks slightly soft as presented.
    Also some NR (or some smoothing) for the sky. I notice some noise (or posterization) on the darker part of it.

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    Very pretty image and colours Susan. I like the composition. Think it could benefit from a little more sharpening and some NR as mentioned.. Otherwise well seen IMO.

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    A little post processing would make this one really shine.
    Where did you focus for this one? At 2.5 secs, you may have some breeze stirring your trees.

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    I focused in between the foreground and the BG. The reflections are naturally soft. I ran this through noise Ninja and sharpened the area of the BG trees for the repost. Any further suggestions.

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    Hi Susan,

    I really like your picture! But as already mentioned there is still some noise in the picture (especially the sky).

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    Hi Susan - nice shot! love the colours and reflection.
    The image still seems soft to me, especially the treeline. for me the trees also look to be standing skew so I think there is a middle way between straightening the horizon and making the tree appear straight when rotating?
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    Susan,

    The FG is leaving me wanting. The grass stalks are intersecting the right edge so I would have preferred to see the image extended more right to not have that happen. On the left it looks like you were going to just get more of a tangle so I think stopping it there was a good choice. I like the pink hues and feel you captured that well. I would have gone just a bit lower to capture the remaining curvature of the submerged rock now clipped.

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    Nice composition Susan, I think it is too bright in the right tree line as my eye keeps going there, also agree with Robert on the reeds. Good job on the colors and reflection

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    Hi Susan,
    I see you found one of my favorite spots in the Glades! Noise mentioned and an easy fix and the repost does look a bit better/sharper......I will add this.....I agree with Robert on the clipped Reeds on the right......you could have gone a bit wider with the 10-22 to include them and I would have gone more FG instead of sky....remember...you can always crop down a touch. You should try focusing about a1/3 of the way into an image ......this will maximize the DOF. Remember that you can hold the split on a diagonal......darkest part to the lightest....this will help with some of the brightest area but it is the way things naturally appear.....so I am OK with it as presented. Just pay more attention to the edges and include those grasses.....this spot will give you plenty of great opportunities!

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