The photographer is looking for generalized feedback about the aesthetic and technical qualities of their image.
Description
This is the bottom of Kinbasket Lake shot in June. Kinbasket Lake is a giant reservoir on the Columbia River in British Columbia, Canada that was created exactly 50 years ago in 1973 when the Mica Dam was completed and this entire area was flooded. Normally this area is under water and in all of the times I’ve been here have I ever seen it like this. Looking at this I can’t help but wonder that it must have looked like before the dam was built and this was just a simple river in the wilderness.
Technical Details
Canon 5D mark IV with a Tamron 100-400mm lens at 312mm (then slightly cropped). 1/1000 sec at f/6.3, handheld.
Tom, this is a very soothing abstract. Besides the complementary colors present, I like how the curves guide the viewer’s eye from place to place. The crop you used is just right. I don’t think there is much that could be done to improve this great image.
Awesome image Tom! I love the curves and color contrast with the warm and blue colors. Nice layers which add depth.
Igor had a good suggestion regarding cropping the top. You may also want to consider rotating the image vertically perhaps. Then the perspective of the image shifts towards shapes and patterns.
Thank you @Egídio , @Igor_Hoveijn and @Alfredo_Mora for your comments and feedback! First of all I’m glad that you all like it because I really like it too. I shot this in June and completely, and I mean completely forgot about it. When I imported the images into Lightroom I initially had no idea where they were from but fortunately they were geo-tagged (in camera) so I could see where they were from on a map and then it all came back to me.
Igor and Alfredo, thank you for the cropping and rotating ideas - they’re definitely something I will experiment with when I get a moment.
Great shot Tom! I love shooting things like this, finding patterns and shapes in the landscape to create a composition from. Whether they are “abstract” or just “artistic”, these kinds of shots speak to me. I love the color tones you have in this and feel the colors are well balanced.
I also agree with @Igor_Hoveijn for a slight crop. I find that having visual “flow” is key to these kinds of images and where the curves are placed in the comp and how the shapes and colors flow together. The slight crop helps the flow a bit more for me.
What a gorgeous area, Tom!
I looked it up on Google Maps and viewed a few associated images of that area including the Mica Dam.
Hopefully you guys will have enough snow this coming winter to fill it back up, thankfully we had enough snow this past winter to fill most of our lakes in the NW part of the US.
I really like your image! I like the range of colors in the water and the color of the ground compliments the water nicely (or vice versa). It looks like there’s a little grass starting to grow in some areas.
The patterns are wonderful and they’re easy to follow through the scene. In my view the composition is very appealing.
It must have been a bit of a shock to discover the lake at this level, albeit pretty, it would still be a shock.
Now that I’ve read the comments by others I see where a crop might be a benefit, however, I don’t really have a preference one way or another, to me it’s six in one hand and half a dozen in the other. Well that wasn’t much help now was it?
Very nicely done and thanks for the story behind it, I always enjoy reading about such things.
A beautiful abstract, Tom. I do see the idea behind the slight crop from the top and I like the effect it creates. I was playing with this a couple of days ago and went in a different direction by reducing the detail level down to see if I could make it a purer abstract by eliminating the land/river connection. I couldn’t really get there, but it did end up with a painterly feel that was kind of fun. Obviously not where you were going with this, but something to think about.
