Scott's Paradise

[maddogmurph]

Sick of looking at this one... I'm just going to post it as is here and let you guys pull out the hatchet.

[Paulo Bizarro]

I like the light and composition. Especially because there is some light on the rocks in the foreground, which helps to lift it a lot and adds interest in that area of the image.

[francois]

Wonderful light and sky. Colors are luxurious and the reflected light on the rocks feeds the eyes with details/textures.
What a beauty!

[stamper]

You should print it...and hang it. The above praise is justified!

[Bob_B]

+1. The colors and textures drew my eye into the photo and kept it there.

[sdwilsonsct]

I find the back and forth composition very engaging. Good composition, fine processing.

[Slobodan Blagojevic]

Sick of looking at this one...

Was that a humblebrag? 

[maddogmurph]

Was that a humblebrag? 

Lol @ humblebrag.  I don't know I just posted it. But I keep looking at it and feeling like something is off or missing.

[Eric Myrvaagnes]

Lol @ humblebrag.  I don't know I just posted it. But I keep looking at it and feeling like something is off or missing.

It sounds to me as if you are just being apologetically critical. Or is it critically apologetic?

I rather like the image.

[Slobodan Blagojevic]

Lol @ humblebrag.  I don't know I just posted it. But I keep looking at it and feeling like something is off or missing.

It is a photo that most of us here, myself included, would be proud to call our own. Great nature, very competent processing, good composition. Hence, definitely a humblebrag

[James Clark]

I really like the "S" curve of the water through the composition

[MattBurt]

If I'm trying to find something to criticize, I'd say maybe the composition is a little crowded/cramped. But I still enjoy the image very much. Maybe that slight crowding is what you are sensing is off? Beautiful image regardless!

[prairiewing]

Beautiful, it's the sidelighting  on the foreground rocks that does it for me.

[Jens Peermann]

Great light, fantastic meteorologic condition and expert processing. A joy to look at.

[John Koerner]

Sick of looking at this one... I'm just going to post it as is here and let you guys pull out the hatchet.

Was that a humblebrag? 

Lol @ humblebrag.  I don't know I just posted it. But I keep looking at it and feeling like something is off or missing.

lol, well, aside from the fact it is a gorgeous image, I think the only nitpick anyone could have would be all of the rocks are horizontally-shaped, and the image itself is vertically-composed.

It's almost like looking at a majestic vision to behold, through a keyhole, where the eye cries for a horizontal view.

[brandtb]

My first thought was as well...

all of the rocks are horizontally-shaped, and the image itself is vertically-composed

. The vertical composition isn't working with your subject(s). As well the shadows in the middle ground rocks are "pulled up" too much...looks artificial.

[Slobodan Blagojevic]

My first thought was as well.... The vertical composition isn't working with your subject(s). As well the shadows in the middle ground rocks are "pulled up" too much...looks artificial.

Humblebrag + sour grapes = ? 

[sierraman]

Yet the vertical part of the rocks are truly vertical. 

[maddogmurph]

My first thought was as well.... The vertical composition isn't working with your subject(s). As well the shadows in the middle ground rocks are "pulled up" too much...looks artificial.

Astute brandtb, I appreciate this valuable feedback and agree with you. That's why I feel it's still just slightly off. I'll have to revisit this with that in mind.  I have a horizontal composition, well quite a few, and will be processing some of these, part of the problem with the horizontal comp here is that it introduces the sun into the frame and I don't believe I have solid brackets.

[Slobodan Blagojevic]

Just remember that vertical compositions make magazine covers, and this one is worthy of it. There is nothing wrong with this one. It provides for a more intimate view of the scene, rather than a grander view, yet cliched, horizontal.