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Hi Wanghan,

This is certainly a beautiful scene. I like the perspective shown.

When ever you use a short focal length lens , the inherent DOF is very large. At the same time, short focal length lens are prone to loss in definition due to using small aperture settings across their wide field of view.

While the image looks good at F/11, it would be much more improved shot at F/5.6 or F/4 or F/2.8 (if it is a fast 20mm lens). You would see the improvement in a good 20mm lens when the image was enlarged or cropped and enlarged because the definition would be fully developed at these f-stops.

I noticed that your exposure was only 1/125 second, so a faster f-stop would not present any difficulty for your camera to manage either. Even at F/2.8, 1/2000 second would have the same exposure level.

Best Regards,  Mike

Nicely composed and with well balanced light, but I wonder about the rippled water, whilst pleasant to view I wonder if a complete mirror image would work better with perhaps a 50 / 50 orientation, just a thought.

Best Regards

Alf

Mike,

Thanks for your advice.  Best regards,

Alf,

Thanks for your comments.  Best Regards,

I think the ripples add interest. I wonder if you could have gotten some detail under the water in the foreground if you had gotten really close to the water and opened the lens up wide? Nice image regardless. 

I hope you got to play golf at Bandon Dunes! (I have some images on course that I might put up if they are worthy).

A well composed capture.

The ripples in water , with the sky as a  backdrop , the blues being rendered perfect is great.

Regards,

TSR

Very beautiful place and so well been brought out photographic wise with very high technical skill and quality, specially the exposure value here which remarkably set, the DOF is also very effective as the details obtained are of very fine nature, the colors are so original and of great add to the pleasant appearance of this image and its well thought off composition.

Thank you for sharing it and wishing you all of the best.

Wanghan,

   Beautiful scene with wonderful details, colors & lighting.  Thanks for sharing.  Take care, Patsy

A faster shutter speed will also sharpen up the water.  We tend to think of it as staying still, but it is moving very fast.  best, j

Excellent composition and colors. I like the ripples in the water - while a perfect mirror would have been nice too, the ripples make this image well... different. And this is a good thing.

The image is also deceiving: initially, I was tempted to say that it is slightly slanted but, after measuring it, I realized that the horizon line is well... horizontal. It is just an optical illusion created by the composition and perspective.

I wold agree with Mike for a larger aperture. F5.6 or F4 might have been perfect. However, I wouldn't go too far (F2.8) because, depending on the lens, the image may actually look softer, especially on the edges. And with such a short focal length vignetting may become more obvious (I know it can be fixed in post-processing, but why pushing it?).

Very good work. Keep sharing!

super image Wanghan.

Rich.

Hi Wanghan,

I have read all the follow up comments after my first posting here, and I thank both Jamie and Stefan for making valid points that I did not mention in my first review.

Jamie, shutter speed is a very useful tool. With a sharp lens, the smallest amount of inherent motion or hand shake is detected by the best lens. The use of a higher shutter speed assures that the capture will not be limited by how good the lens is at detecting such small changes.

Stefan, yes , some lens tend to become "softer" when shot wide open.

These "portrait" designed lens are effective for that reason. Otherwsie a below avaerage lens will not perform well when  shot a wide open.

As for vignetting, yes, stopping down a lens usually does provide better illumination. Sometimes vignetting can be used to frame in a scene (for effect). The post processing of vignetting is possible, too. When ever I am using a fast lens (prone to vignetting) , I compose my image such that I can crop out the vignetting to avoid the extra time required to properly address it in post processing. A fast lens designed for Full frame cameras does show less vignetting on APS formats due to the area covered is less. I find that many macro lens exhibit less vignetting than normal lens because they often use larger internal elements to form the image and this translates to better uniformity of illumination.

Best Regards,  Mike

Wanghan

Well you have done it again. A beautiful shot. While the others have valid points, I personally like the way you have this captured. You have become one  that when I see your name by a thumbnail I know I am in for a treat and will enjoy the time spent viewing the shot.

Pat

Pat, you are right: we are sometimes tempted to become too technical.

We are here to share knowledge and this is a very good thing. There is no recipe for talent and that's why many of our discussions are centered around technicalities. So, fortunately, our comments have very little to do with the artistic vision - it would be arrogant to do otherwise (even when we talk about composition, framing, lighting, etc, in my opinion, we are still in the technical realm).

As a parenthesis, you can prove your talent with a phone camera (see "A Lazy day" of Rudrarup Mukherjee, who just joined the club: with all the technical imperfections his capture is amazingly pleasant).

So, Wanghan, please keep doing your work the way you like and share your photos with us. And if you will ever find anything useful in what we argue here that will help with your work, don't even mention it. Just show us the results!

Thank you for sharing once more.

A fine example of how a relatively simple scene can be powerful. Very nice chromatic balance and use of the blue spaces above and below the main subjects, the magic three adding lots of visual interest.