Blue Lake | Goleuwern Slate Quarry | Friog

[Nam]

I took this whilst on a random camping trip to Barmouth, went across to Friog as i had heard about this disused slate quarry. Taken with my Nikon D300 and Sigma 10-20.


Blue Lake | Goleuwern Slate Quarry | Friog by Alex Nam, on Flickr

Cheers

Alex

 

[JakeT1992]

Looks a bit oversharpened to me, have you pushed the clarity up quite high? It's a nice scene though!

 

[nickjohnwatson]

i agree with jake, its a nice view and the reflections are really clear.

it does look a tad oversharpened, id also be tempted to maybe do a bit of burn on the quarry abouve the water and possibly a grad layer in photoshop to lower the sky exposure a bit?

nice photo though

 

[Nam]

Thanks for the comments guys, i thought as soon as i posted it that it looked over sharpened, when looking at the full size on flickr its no where near as bad. I'll watch out for this in the future.

Thanks Again

Alex

 

[nickjohnwatson]

i had a look on flickr and you're right it doesnt look too bad

 

[Tobers]

Interesting shot. Lots of detail. Does look a bit oversharpened, but otherwise well exposed. It would have been worth making more of those pointy-out rocks in the lower left as they are very cool looking and jab you straight into the picture.

Also possibly it's worth trying a slightly different style of shot and leaving the sky out completely (because you have it in the reflection) and trying to use the semi-circular shape of the reflection in the composition somehow e.g. to frame the sticky out rocks at the bottom.

Nicely done though - just thinking aloud here.

 

[droj]

I know this isn't what you were trying to do but it's another approach - extracting more rather than trying to get it all in.

Slate 5 (flooded) by Rog Whitfield, on Flickr

 

[Tobers]

Yeah that's nice actually. More interesting to me than the first shot.

 

[Phiggys]

Went there many times when I lived down there excellent capture!

 

[Nam]

Thanks for all the comments, never thought of focusing on the reflections, i will have to look out for that in future.

 

[AJQS]

Like the composition but the colour and brightness offend my delicate tastes

 

[SFTPhotography]

I like the brightness, but it has costed it some contrast.

I don't like the re edit at all - sorry but the op has a lovely composition that's the needs 0.03 ev reduction and a bit more contrast