Morning glide across lake

Critique Style Requested: Standard

The photographer is looking for generalized feedback about the aesthetic and technical qualities of their image.

Description

I was checking out the sun through the trees and then saw the swans had to be taken.

Specific Feedback

Taken on my IPhone 15 pro max phones built in lens. I am getting new lens to add to phone and filters would you let me know what kind of filter or lens size you may have used to improve image.

Technical Details

I took this on my iPhone 15 pro max I do all my photography with my iPhone.


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I like this image. I would try to Denoise it, and also maybe bump up its saturation some. Neat scene.

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Thank you, when you say denoise it is that something I can do on the iPhone or after in editing as I do not do any editing thanks

High dynamic range image makes editing different. I took a look at the image and cropped it, decreased the highlights and used a radial gradient to decrease the shadows / blacks as much as I could. Thought this might increase the focus on the swans. My thoughts; however I always defer the vision to the photographer who is there at the moment in time.

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Hi Reg and welcome to the NPN forums.
It’s a nice image, the reflection works well and the swans add a point of reference. I think that Gary’s crop has also worked well adding emphasis to the swans and the reflections.
Processing is of course optional and personal. I don’t know what picture format the iPhone 15 will produce, if it’s jpeg then the phone will have done much of the processing for you.
I’m guessing that there are also number of filter/profile options, these are very much for you to use as you like to enhance the image. I hope that you enjoy your time with NPN

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Thank you for you comment

Welcome to NPN !
Great light n interesting reflections.

PS. I’m shifting this image to Avian category, as it belongs there.

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Thank you very much

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