Hopefully this post finds you all fit and well and enjoying your photography!
Been a while since I managed a post here but I've been busy with conducting workshops and writing articles for LuLa and LPM, and to top it all of I'm in the middle of a move across town so things are rather hectic at the moment.
Now that I find myself in the heat of another hot summer here in the Southwest its time to start planning ahead for the Fall season, and where better to start than GTNP.
I'm sure you will all be familiar with this location.
I have mixed feelings on the composition. It feels really top heavy, obviously so you could get that color form the sky in the shot, but... I just don't think it works all that well. I like it better chopping a significant portion of the sky out, even though you will lose most of the color up there.
I like it quite a bit. Yeah, the brightness on the top left does tend to draw my eye out, but I can live with that to get the clouds, color and reflection.
If I had chopped out a portion of the sky I'd be left with a 50/50 composition which is a no no.
I agree that the top left corner could be darker but that is where the source of light is coming from and therefore IMHO should be the lightest part of the image.
I could screw with this image for hours in Photoshop if I choose, but I'm more this is what I saw and captured and kept it natural. Doesn't seem to work this day in age though. Each to there own and nothing wrong with that.
I have struggled with this composition myself from exactly the same spot, zooming in and out with a 16-35 like a made man. While I think this is an exceptional shot, I would have zoomed in a bit to lose the pine trees and most of the down sloping mountain on the left edge and brought the shore line up a bit. Not to 50-50, but a bit.
Just my taste, I think there is no right or wrong here and the image as posted is fantastic.
Awesome shot with perfect conditions. This lake sure gets some nice fall colour. Only thing I would fix is the tiny dark edge on the top of the left tree line, then print er' huge!
Really nice image. Your shots always show off your skill with a camera. I appreciate images that are not all dolled up with makeup in post processing to make them look good. Your shots, as well as some others here, give me incentive to work harder at capturing an image, rather than trying to make it happen back home in the computer, like I so often end up doing.
Thanks for posting your shots here Nigel.
Nigel Turner wrote:
If I had chopped out a portion of the sky I'd be left with a 50/50 composition which is a no no.
I agree that the top left corner could be darker but that is where the source of light is coming from and therefore IMHO should be the lightest part of the image.
I could screw with this image for hours in Photoshop if I choose, but I'm more this is what I saw and captured and kept it natural. Doesn't seem to work this day in age though. Each to there own and nothing wrong with that.
