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The Art of Photography => User Critiques => Topic started by: KMRennie on November 04, 2015, 07:50:14 am

Title: Lakeland Dawn
Post by: KMRennie on November 04, 2015, 07:50:14 am
Shot at Dawn on Bassenthwaite in Cumbria. Got up at stupid o'clock to drive down to take dawn shots on Derwentwater. Unfortunately it was cloaked in heavy mist so a few miles further down the valley to here. A few minutes later the heavy mist descended and standing in a lake with the temperature just above freezing lost its charm. The fog/ mist lasted for the rest of the day but the early morning with birdsong was worth the journey. All comments welcome.

Ken
Title: Re: Lakeland Dawn
Post by: Diego Pigozzo on November 04, 2015, 07:54:11 am
Beautiful.

For my taste I would crop the water in the foreground: it gives me a sense of "wet feet" :D
Title: Re: Lakeland Dawn
Post by: RSL on November 04, 2015, 09:03:00 am
Diego needs to take off his shoes. Don't crop a thing. It's fine just as it is.
Title: Re: Lakeland Dawn
Post by: Tony Jay on November 04, 2015, 04:08:19 pm
You have absolutely captured the essence.
Concept fulfilment at its best.

Beautiful.

Tony Jay
Title: Re: Lakeland Dawn
Post by: muntanela on November 05, 2015, 08:44:56 am
Beautiful! Perhaps the extreme left side is not perfectly satisfying, but it depends on what there was beyond the edge.
Title: Re: Lakeland Dawn
Post by: stamper on November 05, 2015, 09:04:01 am
It seems a little soft on the left hand side. Lack of depth of field? However ..... overall a nice pleasing image that I wouldn't crop.
Title: Re: Lakeland Dawn
Post by: KMRennie on November 05, 2015, 09:26:36 am
The softness is movement of the reeds in slightly moving water. Since I was bracketing them I think that I can patch in some non moving parts. It is strange what one can't see until someone points out the obvious.
Ken