solomon_hoasjoe1

The composition is good with clouds adding a lot of impact. However if you're trying to capture Fall colors the lighting is a bit weak. The bright red and yellow not showing very well as people expected.

Would have been a nice composition except for the house plant on the bottom left that appeared to distract the image. If you can move it off the frame it would have been a better shot.

The other thing is the viewing angle. I've been to a music concert recently. If you're down close to the orchestra, you'll be looking across at the performers. On the upper row seats you'll be looking down. When shooting a single player, it may be more natural to do a vertical with more of the music stand showing.

 

S. Hoasjoe

I've tried to capture some of these myself in Toronto. The weather here is no where as cold as Edmonton and this year, only several days cold enough for frost to appear on the house windows.

 

What I often found was the dirt and dust on the windows ruin the patterns... I had to crop off the dirty parts to get a good image. And the patterns you get are so unpredictable depending on where your camera is pointing. Even off by a fraction of an inch, you get a different picture.

 

Nicely done...

Interesting composition but not sure if the boat was the intended subject by looking at it. You have a table, flower pot and a small block of stone at the corner also in sharp focus each trying to draw your attention away from the other.

Of all the photos I've seen, this one does have a nicely balanced composition. The leaves did catch my attention first.

 

However, I'm not sure if there is enough of a focus on any particular subject element here: the rocks, grass or leaves. Of course, red, yellow and other colored leaves is an indication of the Fall season but in this picture there didn't seem to be enough leaves for the 'Fall' effect.

Got a picture of a distant storm over Lake Ontario once by accident. Used an 800 film but lost the negative (unfortunately).

 

Took a number of sunrise and sunset photos since. It's always interesting to see the power of nature at work. Never fails to amaze me...