Castle Reflections

[danny_bhoy]

Just got round to editing this from the other week - pretty pleased with it.

Canon 5D MKII
Tamron 17-35 @ 19mm
f14
0.8 Seconds
ISO 50
Hitech .6 Hard Grad

All comments/crit are always welcome

Castle by Danny Birrell, on Flickr

 

[doggel]

Lovely scene, lovely subtle colours, but personally I'd crop off the entire bottom quarter of the photo.

 

[danny_bhoy]

Lovely scene, lovely subtle colours, but personally I'd crop off the entire bottom quarter of the photo.

Just tried a quick crop and you could well be right. Loathed to lose any of the nice light on the sand though - haven't seen much of that recently

 

[doggel]

You have achieved great depth of field, and I know well how tempting it is to show the whole magnificent scene off, so I am glad that you perhaps agree that the composition needs adjusting. I never stick slavishly to the so-called golden rule, but I do think that the balance in this composition gives rise to aesthetically awkward competition as between foreground, background, and central horizon focus.

 

[Stu Meech]

Personally I'd be tempted to loose the top quarter to even up the compo as the bottom is so much more interesting than the sky! But I really like the reflections of the sky in the water.

 

[viv1969]

I agree with Duncan.
It's a beautiful scene, but it makes an even better square crop.

 

[danny_bhoy]

You have achieved great depth of field, and I know well how tempting it is to show the whole magnificent scene off, so I am glad that you perhaps agree that the composition needs adjusting. I never stick slavishly to the so-called golden rule, but I do think that the balance in this composition gives rise to aesthetically awkward competition as between foreground, background, and central horizon focus.

Personally I'd be tempted to loose the top quarter to even up the compo as the bottom is so much more interesting than the sky! But I really like the reflections of the sky in the water.

I agree with Duncan.
It's a beautiful scene, but it makes an even better square crop.

Thanks for the feedback guys.

I'm definitely going to try that square crop Ruth.

 

[Craig_85]

I've just looked at it larger on flickr and it works for me having seen it properly, nice one.

 

[SFTPhotography]

Not much wrong there to be honest. I like the subtle soft colours. There's room for a little saturation and contrast incrEase without making the image look cheap and oversaturated

 

[Michael Batten]

Looks good to me.

I think that the sand leads the eye upwards to the curved sea channel which then moves the eye to the middle left to the larger sea channel which then filters the eye right to the castle and upwards. I like the frame as it is. A small crop might lose some of the balance that I think is already present.