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i am told that the picture resembles a famous image by jack dykinga.

i am showing it nevertheless

It does .. A lot :)

Look at http://www.dykinga.com/Water.htm

It's a great picture!!!! I like it !!!!

Very nice, different stick for sure. :)

great...colours,lines...all..7/7 congrat..

--willy--

Beautiful!

thanks for your comments

 

daniel, i checked your reference, the idea of the picture is indeed very much the same, not really accicentally, because when you are there, you want something in the foreground and these dry sticks are a natural choice. the color and atmosphere are, however, somewhat different.

Excelente magnifico color, composicion y un bello encuadre, un cordial saludo

I don't say the resamblance makes your image less good ! :) Not at all ..It's very, very appealing and well executed.

I was just stunned about the presence of that dry wood ..

Btw, may i ask what have you been using as camera/media ?

This wonderful view immediately attracted my attention. With all these lines it looks like a nice abstract. I know Jack Dykinga's version quite well, so I noticed the resemblance. Well, I have seen here on PN some images, for example of Yellowstone, almost identical to my own and even taken almost at the same time therefore under similar lighting conditions. Just coincidence I believe, so I'm not surprised. Small world. This image and Dykinga's ones have opposite dominating diagonals though. Overall, my impression is, and it's just my subjective opinion, that this image has two major points of interest, light top center and light cloud reflection on the bottom right. My eyes were traveling top-bottom-top...and I couldn't decide what I prefer. Both focal points are good. In Jack Dykinga's picture the tonality gradually changing from lightest on the top to darkest on the bottom and the reflection is quite faint. I'm sure he used polarizer and/or burned the bottom part. I instinctively tried to cut off the 10-15% of the top of your original posting and liked the result. Later I found that the new placement of the horizon line in the cropped version would be close to what I saw on Jack's picture. Maybe it's just my *sense of cliche* Maybe not, because some cropping off the top eliminates one of the two lightest parts and also makes the image fitting *the thirds* closer that is, in my taste, better balances it both compositionally and in terms of tonality. Of course, I may be wrong, cropping it's a matter of taste and tastes are different. Another possibility to eliminate one of the two light spots would be to burn either top or bottom. I think the picture also should be great in B&W print because the histograms for separate channels (I checked them) mostly overlap. And I'm the second who's wondering what kind of gear was used.

Thanks for our comments.

Daniel, I thought I gave the answerd to your question yesterday, but from what I see I apparently forgot to send it. This is a scan from a velvia slide taken with my old Nikon F100. These days I use only my D70.

 

Vlad, thanks for the detailed analysis. So you actually remember the original version, where you suggested to crop the upper part, which was an excellent proposition. By the way, the original picture was eliminated accidentally, when I wanted to delete a particular picture and instead deleted the entire folder of all my pictures of the American South West, some of which I have reinserted in the meantime. Unfortunately there is no backup, but of course you have to be almost blind to overlook the warning sign, which I apparently was. I agree the cloud in the pool is not optimal, I should have waited for an different cloud constellation, or no cloud at all in the mirror image. What I also dislike are the small pieces on the left of the stick. one cannot be careful enough. Good idea to try black & white.

Very nice photo, Jitka