Island

An island in Algonquin national park in Ontario. Please critique and

rate.

High blue saturation is by intent. I want the sky and lake colors to match, with just an island in center.

This definitely got my attention, more than if it was just a standard photo, and I think it's due to the black sky and foreground.  In the end I'm a little short of thrilled by this, because it's a natural scene but I can't think of a natural reason for the blackness, yet it falls short of a surreal or unnatural treatment overall.  So it's sort of in-between the two.

It's interesting enough to get me to examine it, though, which is tough with basic landscape subjects such as this.  So, credit for that!!!

Best regards Sandeep!

PDE

Thanks everybody for critique. Donn, to answer your question, I call this style exaggeration of reality. In landscape photography we have tons of filters and tools to photograph the scene in a special way that makes the scene more beautiful. This scene presents the time of night falling, evening going away. Gradient sky gives me that feeling.

The heavy saturated water and the gradient sky works for me on this. Like Donn this caught my eye right away and in reading your intent I have to say that this is captured exactly as you intended and is interesting to look at it.

Sandeep, kudos to you for the creativity, and thanks for explaining your thinking.  Without question, it's an absolute eye-catcher!