Ink Blot
by Neil

Comment by cpanaioti:
What works: High horizon, leading line of the river, symmetry of the trees and far shore with the reflections.

What doesn't work: I feal that there is too much detail on the far shore and that it would work better if that were more in silhouette. I think this would bring out the light in the house (I think that's what it is) more.

.... it would then be more befitting your title. ;o)

Twilight's Last Gleaming
by Neil

Comment by Neil:

Originally posted by traquino98: Originally posted by cpanaioti: For more interest though I feel the need for some lights in the houses on the far shore. Agree. I do really like the rest of the photo however, especially the dock and clouds. What post processing did you do for this image?

Thanks, both to you and Colette. The funny thing about this is that one of the things I did in postprocessing was to burn in the lights across the shore to more or less eliminate them. I wanted the focus of the shot to be the sky. Other than that, I cloned out a buoy, and if I recall right, used a gradient adjustment layer to bring up the light in the water slightly and deemphasize the dock (as I recall--I also was using a GND filter when shooting, upside down, but I'll have to check to see if this is one of those or if it was done in software). The soft feel to the water is due to the long exposure.

I'll see if I can dig up the original and post it in the landscape forum thread.

Twilight's Last Gleaming
by Neil

Comment by cools98:

Originally posted by cpanaioti: For more interest though I feel the need for some lights in the houses on the far shore.

Agree.

I do really like the rest of the photo however, especially the dock and clouds. What post processing did you do for this image?

Twilight's Last Gleaming
by Neil

Comment by cpanaioti:
Good depth produced through the use of a foreground object (dock) as well as the leading line of the river and the clouds. For more interest though I feel the need for some lights in the houses on the far shore.

Autumn Tapestry
by Neil

Comment by cpanaioti:
What strikes me with this image is the painterly feel and the gentle flow from foreground to background produced by the transitions from shadow to light and back again.

Rural America
by Neil

Comment by Jutilda:
What a beautiful capture of such a peaceful setting. The greens and sky are simply lovely. The windy road and the barn in the distance set it off. My only "negative" is the shadow in the foreground , but maybe that was unavoidable.

Rural America
by Neil

Comment by Skip:
very nice, neil. this places looks like it would be a nice place to shott just about any time of day, any time of year.

Rural America
by Neil

Comment by Jutilda:
Lovely. The road and the building counterbalance each other in this shot. The coloration and light is really good.

Rural America
by Neil

Comment by scalvert:
Looks like you picked a great day for a bike ride! The cloud shadow makes a nicely-placed compositional element. If I may suggest for next time, crop or shift a little to the right to lose that tree and get down low to put the grass in the foreground at about f/22. That should yield a great, three-dimensional sense of depth.

Reformation
by Neil

Comment by scalvert:
Great colors and motion. I really like the glowing tanzanite blues against the yellow. If you don't already, you should have a series of these framed and matted on your walls.