Yulong river

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Excellent close-up, colors and exposition. I like it.

i love the way that you composed the picture. it has all of the needed lines to make it stick to the eye. plus, its a middle format picture, so it's even more difficult to implement these elements into such a confined space.

Absolutely Beautiful! I love the mood, composition, detail, colors. 7/7. - Lex

Deliciosa imagen, con esos tonos dorados que entusiasman. Foto bien compuesta y con calidadDelicious image, with those golden tones that delight. Very compound picture and with quality

Coming back on the top! as usual...thanks to share your talent...

 

JP

Beautiful shot... great depth and mood!

Fabulous shot - everything is just right!

Beautiful image.

nitidez y tonos impresionantes, bonita y calida escena.

 

Saludos.

Beautiful picture and great light, congrats

I am envious of you for being there!

It can't get any better! The light, the sun, the reflection in the water and the background. Excellent, really.

The poem ...

Everything is dead on in this pic, great mood, great lighting, framing and composition, congrats on a great shot. BILL

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Attracts due to the striking technical rendering. And most if not all the elements within the composition give me an ability to be there and understand what I am into. However the predominant tint in the image is a distraction. I don't know how to take the picture: metaphor, memory, or heavy hand with manipulation. I'd like to see a cleaner white and black and more natural or varied hue. Still, it is a masterful image and the color cast DOES give it the feeling of a scroll or parchment rendering.

A color cast usually bothers me as well, but for some reason I think it works well with this image. I've see this type of image a lot here lately, but not captured this well. My only feedback would be to leave a little more breating room at the bottom so the raft isn't so close to the edge of the composition.

the point wil king has raised is not an issue here i guess because i m sure its foureyes style, she has every pic in her galary like that. brilliant work and congratulations.

This is a fine example of how to use a wide angle lens to exaggerate the interesting features of a subject. The boat's bamboo looks like a pipe organ. The color and composition seems to capture the spirit of this place.

Overall, I find this a very attractive photo. There is nice clarity while a mood of an

encompassing atmosphere is conveyed. The color cast of the image adds to the feeling

generated by the haze in the sky and just seems to impart a hot and very humid feeling to

me--maybe just warm now, but later.....

 

Although I am attracted to the image I also feel a slight sense of imbalance and possibly

some stasis here. I have been trying to determine how these two things are possibly

influencing each other. I just feel that the boat is a bit close to the bottom and that it is

too centered there. The combination of the two seems to break the rhythm this image

wants to express. I actually have no problem with someone centering things, I am just

having a hard time reconciling this with the overall use of line in this photograph. The

placement of the elements ends up giving a bit more weight to the left side of the image,

causing the imbalance. Part of me feels that it would correct itself if there was just a bit

more room at the bottom.

 

I will say that I see a lot of near/far compositions that don't work and that don't seem to

understand the use of the technique--this is an example, as has been pointed out already,

of it being done very well.

 

Again, overall, a very nice photo.

ok, heres a total newbies thoughts...the leading lines in this pic work perfectly for me:

drawing my eyes from the foreground raft to the mid-river raft on into the mountains and

sun. the hue, which some have a problem with, makes for a thick, smoky, dense feel that

really puts me in that place and time...i can just about smell the semi-stagnant slow moving

air coming off the water, and i only hear silence except for the soft splashes of the rafter's

pole breaking the surface of the water. i wish i was there...i wish i could take such a lovely

picture.

It does look weighted to the left side. The larger distant mountains on the right counteract that a somewhat, but not enough. Cropping some off from the right gives a more balanced appearance.

I have to say that I am a sucker for a good wide angle shot, I just love the view the lens gives to a landscape. This is a very good example of this distortion by a wide angle lens. The leading lines are a bit of a problem as mentioned, the raft in the foreground leads me into the distant left corner of the frame and takes the focus off the middle ground and centre right distant mountains. To me they are the interesting aspects of this scene but become secondary due to the initial focus direction. The overall atmosphere is what I would call typical for that region as the haze/pollution is well documented and incredibly wide spread, add humidity to that equation as well.

 

The yellow colour may well be accurate, but as I have learnt there are very few examples of non manipulated landscapes put up for POW. However if it is a true reflection of the colour of the day that nature provided I would like to know, or if it was done via a warming filter and in camera operation all the better. Unfortunately the details section is totally blank so we may never know.

Who knows it may have been shot on the yellow river.

Awesome...This photograph is one of its own kind.The reflection of each and every object has made it more eye catchy.Also none of the reflection / shadow is intersacting, which has turned out as a beautiful combination of object and its image without any special effect.This is what called a real photography.GOOD JOB BUDDY