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In a creek outside Lagos, Nigeria (West Africa). We

borrowed a boat from some fishermen and I was

standing on a small bridge shooting almost straight

down. The boat was open bottomed in both ends so

she couldn't lie down on the floor, instead we placed the

two paddles across to lie down on. The pose is a bit

stretched and unrelaxed but it was the best we could

think of with this boat, the only boat on this creek.

Comments and feedback most welcome.

In a creek just outside Lagos, Nigeria. The headwrap is enlarged in photoshop, some

contouring to face, the rest is colour toning etc. The water was just a meter deep, an

assistant is standing in the water holding a portable studio flash with beauty dish just

outside the frame on camera left.

Feedback and suggestions are most welcome!

What is good, what is bad? what could have been done differently?

Any comments are most welcome.

Thank you all for your feedback

The sky was perhaps slightly more orange than this red colour. There are quite a lot of citylights in this area and it was overcast with some openings in the cloud cover. It was quite windy and the clouds were moving quite fast as well.

White balance was set on Auto. 30sec f8.0 iso100. I added slight blur in photoshop to the river and the sky. The contrast in the scene was very high, the majority of the photo was a bit underexposed. I used the Levels in photoshop to expand the existing tonal range, and adjusted gamma to a suitable (in my opinion) slightly dark overall tone. Levels was applied to the whole photo overall, not masked.

This is probably one of the most photographed locations in London, so

it is not very original. However, your feedback on the execution of

the photo is most welcome.

What could be done better?

Roots of silk-cottonwood tree growing on the ruins of Angkor, the

lost capital of the Khmer empire.