Morning at Lake Crescent

The superb colors give this image wonderful aymosphere, it simply glows. Great grab.

Nice feeling Good work

Thanks for the nice comments. It was a lucky stab. I was driving to the beach very early, and this certainly caught my eye. The camera did the work, as it was a fast shot with the meter on automatic...I just happened to be there.

Please rate and critique. Any suggestions or comments are always

welcome.

A splendidly colorful photograph.

Awesome! This is a terrific shot. Great exposure. Splendid colors.

Awesome color.

Thank you for the very nice feedback. Good old Kodachrome 64 sure grabs the color nicely.

Awesome! Kodachrome 64 can still impress, you did a great job! It was worth the trouble you went through to get the shot!

Laurence, your far too modest. The timing, the composition, and the exposure all required the talents of a true artist and photographer. This is simply incredible. I have passed by this very spot a dozen times and have never seen such colors as this. In fact, we're headed up there next weekend - maybe I can convince the wife to get up early ;-) I doubt it!

Thanks for the feedback! There are a couple of problems that I see with this shot. Number one, I see I forgot to wipe out the streetlight in the distance. Number two, the foreground tree is just out of focal range...although I'm going to give my excuse for that: The pretty pinks and blues were fading INCREDIBLY fast, I mean every second it was fading more, and I didn't feel I even had time to adjust the f/stop for depth-of-field. So I pointed the camera at the brightest spot, opened up a stop and fired on "automatic". Less than three or four seconds later, the light turned to mush. With the slow film, I think the aperture was probably around f/4, which cut down my depth of field. Darn it anyway. Also, I'm not sure I like that metal gate down in the bottom right.

Interesting how one can tear apart one's art after the fact. But Laurence, I disagree in part with some of your points - first, since I have been at this very spot myself, the gate, the log boom-thingy, and the light put it all into a realistic context. However, I can also step out of my shoes for a moment, and into those of someone who has not been there, and see that maybe those are distracting items from the overall theme of the shot. Two different views. And at the resolution that we are seeing this picture at, the foreground tree does not appear to be out of focus, just covered with soft moss. Actually, the light - if you know it is a street light - adds that all important element of "Scale" into the photograph. Whether you meticulously setup the shot using manual preferences, or shot from the hip on fully automatic, does not negate the value of the decision made based on the circumstances of the fading light, nor of the quality of the photograph. Okay, enough philosophy for the day! :-)

Well, let's just stick with the circumstances...meaning, you would have loved watching my swim in the mud! I consider myself at least somewhat agile, but that mud really got me. Funny how, here it was 5am or so, and no one around. But STILL my first reaction when I was spinning on my back like a break dancer in the mud, I was instantly looking around to see if anyone saw me. So...despite the attempt to save the camera from the mud, and despite the fact that I could even have been hurt for all I knew...the preservation of dignity was the uppermost thing that came to mind.

 

And...thanks for the comments, they are very welcome. Good points, man, and I appreciate them coming from you. I'm anxious to see more of your work on here. You are on a roll.

What a corker of a shot Laurence - very well done! (But do clone out the white speck in the centre!).

 

Barry Needle :)

Part of getting a great shot is the willingness to slide down, and wade through, mud :-) A great result: I would say that it was worth you trouble to get this!!