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Published: 2009-04-09 01:25:13 +0000 UTC; Views: 1102; Favourites: 36; Downloads: 29
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Really happy with my post processing on this, think its a big improvement on my usual basic crap.Would love to get some critiques
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Seeing though you asked for some critique I thought why not give you some myself.
I personally love the composition and the idea of the shot, it works really nice and the reflections are a nice touch. Nicely saturated colours and the contrasts look good.
The clouds seem to have a slight magenta cast, probably from a curves adjustment or underexposing the image and then trying to bring it back by adjusting the brightness, or even selected colour. When shooting reflections like this, the reflection should always be the same as the sky, just balances the image. Also matbe using a smaller aperture would have got those distance trees more in focus, but that's just me!
Good job Tom!
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i agree with drew, while it is clean, there are some tech issues. the focus seems to fall off on the distant end.
perhaps the use of a 2 stop gnd would have balanced the exposure between the sky and reflection in the water a bit more, furthering interest in the cloud pattern. and one minor thing would be the white spots in the foreground water are a bit distracting. all in all a decent shot though
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Yeah, I would have used a smaller apeture to keep more things in focus, but I was handholding and wanted a faster a shutter speed to try and keep it fairly sharp.
I used a Cokin Z-Pro 2 stop filter for this two ha, so I dunno
Thanks for the comment though mate
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Dude, your work is not "basic crap"!
Tom, very nicely composed, good colours - I really like this one
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I think drewy wrote a good critique. Only thing I might add is (and it's not really enough to write my own) the trees look a bit too yellowy to me. But it's still a nice photo, good work.
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Reminds of my lake view cottage when I was younger...
Awesome picture!
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love the reflection ~ beautiful
hmmm...
what are all the specks of white stuff on the bottom half of the pic? is it sposed to be like that?
just curious 
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Tree branches and leaves and crap
Nothing suss I swear
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ahahaah sure sure
thx for clearing that up for me...
i guess with the random stuff there.. it seems more realistic.. than those that clean that all up.. hmmmmm....
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Yeah, to be honest if something is there and doesnt really distract from the image, I'm not going to clone it out, as much because I'm lazy then because I prefer a purist approach to landscapes haha.
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