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I agree that would be the better photo. Several times this day I wished that I had brought a wider angle lens. I was also up against a very grey/hazy sky. Right or wrong, the first thing I do on a grey day is frame my photos to keep the sky out.

 

John

I love the image, but can't come to grips with the light on the legs and lack of it on the water.

 

John

Taken at a wet paint auction. The artist's eyes with a paint brush

are far more idealistic than a photographer's eye. Didn't have much

time to compose as I didn't want to make her self conscious. If I

did it again I would step back to include her feet and all her tools

and paints. I could then crop if I didn't like, but this is the full

frame. Comments/suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Very nice Brian. It has more punch. It would look very nice printed out on watercolor paper.

 

John

I made some quick adjustments just to give you an idea of what I meant. I didn't do any fine tuning, so the edges are sharp and I missed a couple spots.

(Hope you don't mind)

 

John

The light and exposure are nice. The content seems a little too busy/cluttered to grab my attention. The tree and man are leaning a little to the right also.

 

John

This is well composed. I am usually not a fan of water lines through the middle of the frame, but it works here. The colors are pleasant and perhaps could be a little more intense/saturated. The rocks appear a little soft at the edges to me and I'd like the trees to either have more detail or more totally black. Great first post to photo-net.

 

John

Perhaps it is my monitor, but this photo appears drab. There appear to be some spots on the black canvas that are distracting also.

 

John

I probably should have used a polarisor to reduce the reflectiveness. In snow or anything else that is white I add 1.5 to 2 stops so that I don't end up with grey snow. The shadows on the snow are fairly short, so I took this when the light was too bright to get a great image.

 

I will check out Mr. Rockwell's site as well.

 

John

Captured by a photographer. Wonderful image Michael.

 

John

Here is a fifteen minute fix as an example of what I mean. It would still need some work, but you can get the idea. This is just adjusting levels on separate layers for each area.

 

John

Took a break from work for a quick fix on this hope you don't mind.

 

John

Very nice reflection, but the sky is much too light, the mountains are a bit hazy and the tree line a little dark. All should be fixable with a little PS work.

 

John

The colors are nice, but the horizon is tilted. It feels like the water will drain out the left side of the photo and you'll be left with nothing but sky. Use the "arbitrary" rotation function in your software and rotate it a couple of degrees clockwise. Then recrop and you'll be happier with the photo.

 

John.

Nice job on recovering a blown-out area. I will try top remember to check the different channels. In this case all three channels were blown out (SOL situation). Here I pulled the black level nearly to the white level to highlight the blown out areas. I did check the three channels as well, but all were blown out. I should probably look through my photos and see if I took varying exposures of the cattails, I almost always do in any situation that I believe the meter could be fooled.

 

John

:) At 500 shots per shoot you have about 3 months of use before it dies :)

 

I am glad you had back-up. I have film cameras as backup, but it has been a long time since they have seen any use. The digital is just too convenient to use.

 

Maybe I need a new digital as back up! Now that I think of it a D2X would really get the creative juices flowing again. A couple of new lenses would help too.

 

I'm glad that Nikon treated you well and that I have not needed their services for my D70.

 

John

Thanks for laughing Lou Ann. I have admired how much your photos have improved even though I have not been commenting lately.

 

John

Wow Michael you have picked on my "weak" attempt to keep myself photographing on a regular basis. I was dissatisfied with my results and tried to force myself into taking photos and picking the best of what I considered "weak" photos each week.

 

Since that time I can count on one hand the number of times that I have made a specific attempt to go and capture photos in the right light and with any thought toward improving my technique, though I still love photography.

 

Setting up shots such as this has never been my forte. This is taken from a lake with no way to gain height advantage unless I wanted to ski in with a ladder on my back. Waiting till the subject was a bit further away would have created a separation from the shoreline as well.

 

Soon the desire to learn and improve will return and maybe some of these photos will be taken by a photographer again. Erstwhile I appreciate your posts and with all the space available on today's flash drives I always shoot the raw and jpg combination. I use the jpgs with a portable printer that I can put the flash drive into and get 4x6 photos in the field or on location.

 

John

Hopefully you didn't take offense at my borrowing your photo for illustrative purposes.

 

John

I had a minute and enhanced the background a bit. Viewing it, I can see both our sides.

 

John.

Though your wife is important to please, in the final analysis you are the one that needs to approve or disapprove of your photo. Here (IMO) the reflections are great and the deep blue of the sky gives it a near cibachrome quality.

Unusual shot and angle. Good capture.

Thank you for visiting and your comment Jacqueline. I like the foreground too, but I'm getting a fifty/fifty split on it even from family members. Impossible to please everyone.

Nice swan Michael. Thanks for the comment Allan.

Just for fun.