I am trying to find local beauty and walk by this pond every morning with my dog. Finally I remembered to take the camera with me and try for a shot. This is hand held and my dog (Boomer) was a good boy while I was down one one knee on a slope trying for the photo. Good thing Boomer did not see a squirrel.
This photo is probably 20 minutes after sunrise.
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Any feedback to help me improve.
Technical Details
Is this a composite: No
Canon 6dmkii
Hand held
24-105L
F-11
ISO 400
1/100 second.
Slight cropping on each side to remove distractions. And minor exposure adjustments in LR and PS.
Hi Brian, nice morning, perfect beauty to capture. Loved the color and tones you got. In order to reinforce the beauty of these, I will suggest crop slighty stronger. Cheers from Chile!!
Very fine scene and you captured and treated it well. The mist is beautifully defined, and seems to move as I look at the image. The vegetation is a fine frame for the scene. I believe that Andres’ suggested cropping was to address the very bright and plain sky. I concur that sky does distract from the scene, but I enjoy the loftiness of the trees. My approach was to take a brush loaded with the yellow/tan color just above the horizon to the lower right of the sun, and paint most of the bright sky (in a duplicate layer) with the brush in “Darker Color” mode (opacity 60%). The resulting sky is not so bright, and seems to have a continuity with the color of the sunrise and mist. I painted the bright water in lower left as well.
I copied and moved some of the URC leaves to close that corner up a little.
