loch ba

any comments welcome cheers Duncan

Very beautiful picture.

Wow amazing! congrats

Beautiful composition! Cheers, J

Excellent!

You've captured the majestic beauty of this scene extremely well. My only slight quibble is a compositional one - that it's a little left-heavy. Either the rock could be further over to the right, or the right 20% of the image could be cropped away? Hope you don't mind this suggestion - I don't want to detract from what is a very good photo! Best wishes, Hugo

I don't know about this one...like the previous "speaker" the composition is not that good, the colors I find personal for such an image a bit ...let's say there isn't really any drama or exitment in the image.

Sure thing we can agree on that it is far from being original in anyway.

Don't get me wrong, overall it is a good but average photo, with all the elements a good image needs: blue sky, white snowy mountain, reflection of a mirrorflat lake, eye/attention holder in front in the form of a rock in the water, personal however I think it is remarkable overrated, as it is good but misses that extra.

 

regards,

 

Marc

Duncan, I enjoy the geometry of this photo a lot. Given the length of it, it's obvious you've already done some cropping, and I think the inclusion of the trees on the right offers something to the composition that's not immediately caught. Great feng-shui. This is a photo that should be seen BIG. Something I would like to see would be to pull down the exposure a little more (it can still be done) to bring up the intensity of that high-altitude sky through deeper blues. Rachel

Excelente encuadre, perfecta luz y color, un bellisimo encuadre, y magnifica composicion especial la refelxionen el lago, saludos cordiales Duncan.

I do find myself in disagreement with the negative remarks - your image is far from ordinary, in my opinion. While I do love symmetry, this photo seems to have been taken at the end of a winding path - there are no straight paths in the moun tains! The crystal clearity and pureness of tone and contrast make it very nearly possible to breathe in the cold Highland air and hear the wind howling down from the mountaintop. And by using vertical rather than horizontal symmetry, you create a sense of perfect peace while challenging the viewers perceptions.

The only distraction or anomolie for me is the very sharp edge transition from mirrored water to windswept. I would reccomend blending the transition between the reflected and non-reflected waters a little more.

 

Unless the fore-ground water is in a wind protected land-locked tide-pool the water will never transition from mirrored to windswept in a single pixel :)

 

So, you need to work on your blending at the intersection of those two waters perhaps using feathered selections in combination with blur.

 

In fact in this instance I would reccomend taking the mirrored waterline right back to the lands edge at the foot of the mountains.

 

Cheers...John.

thanks for all the comments,re the change in water surface john,the water at the far side of the loch is frozen.no manipulation was carried out on this pic

cheers all Duncan

wonderful shot, and the panoramic very good, congratulations

a great shot of a well photographed area, as for the wind or ice line well thats how you get it, i know i have had this in many shots so no worries there. keep them coming look forward to seeing more. your fellow rannoch snapper david

I commend Hugo and Marc on giving some honest yet constructive feedback. Something I rarely see on this site. I agree with their comments particularly in regards to the composition.

I can't find time to to see the faults in this picture, I'm to busy enjoying it........

My apologies for the incorrect assumption.

 

Cheers...John.

While I respect David's eye a great deal, I believe the constructive composition comments miss the mark. I think the real symmetry (and I think that's a fair term) is in the way the diamond-shaped foreground grouping relates to the diamond-shaped central hill (of course I am including the reflections as well) and the background as a whole.

 

The central, brown hill is flanked by the peaks and the lit and shaded sides of these peaks form lines that radiate from the central brown hill. The two short diagonals radiating to the left, formed by the shadow on the left peak and its reflection, repeat the diagonals formed by the right side of the foreground grouping. Likewise, the two, short, less-definite diagonals formed by the lit (left) side of the right peak and its reflection, repeat (roughly) the left side of the foreground grouping. Its a subtle repetition across a fair amount of physical space.

 

Once you see that, then the you begin to see many repeated triangles of similar size inverted and repeated and distributed around the image as well as from foreground to background.

 

If you crop the right, the image becomes a lot less dynamic (try it). I would typically want the foreground group to be further to the right (that's my natural pull) but I think it works for many of us where it is because the space from the rocks to the right edge is similar to the space from the central brown hill to the left edge . . . almost.

 

Finally, it seems to me, the added length on the right allows for the formation of the two, large triangle shapes -- the right half of the sky and its reflection. This helps, moderately, it seems to me, to keep things from being weighted too much to the left. Perhaps it is this And the large triangle (consisting of the central brown horizontal background as its base and the foreground rock group as its top) that keep this composition from tipping too far to the left.

 

The ice strip is a great -- adding a central strip for the verticle mirrored symmetry.

 

I find this far from ordinary. The blue and brown complementary scheme is one of my favorites. The white frames this nicely. I hope this makes sense -- whether or not one agrees.

 

 

What I miss in the comments so far is the issue of size: I think that, especially in landscape photography, "size does matter". In this case the large version is way too large to view as a whole, so my guess is that most people view the small version. I resized it to fit my monitor (24", 1920 pixels wide) and at that size it's a great photo, it has much more "grandeur" and detail than the small version. I agree however with some of the comments that the composition could be improved a little bit by moving a few steps to the left, so the stones would be more to the right and not interfere with the reflection of the mountain and bring more balance.