Lakeside

[swmdrayfan]

Taken on a very overcast day, converted to b & w, cropped, and submitted for your consideration.
John


Photo deleted by popular request ;)

[dmizer]

contrast is nice. but i feel like a moth to the sky. the dominating lines of the trees in the forground are leading my eyes to the bright spot in the sky too.

don't know what you had to work with before you cropped it, but if you had more forground, maybe you can add forground and remove sky? raise the horizon to above center frame so the sky is cut off just above the treeline in the background.

that, or dodge the bejezus out of the bright spot in the sky.

[swmdrayfan]

The revised photo.

[gahspidy]

John, besides from some of the things pointed out and suggested by dmizer, I felt the entire balance of the composition was too weighted on the left. I still feel that way in the last vertical crop. However, I like the pano crop you just presented and feel the large area of lake in the foreground with a clearly visible house and trees at the shorline in the distance creates a charming, and better balanced overall composition.

[swmdrayfan]

Gary,

You guys are right........after looking at it several more times, the balance is definately to the left on the vertical crops. The pano gives more openess to the whole scene. Thanks for the input. Certainly something to consider whenever I'm in post processing.

[dbutler]

What! Wow a difference! That pano really is powerful. Good Job!

[readingr]

John,

The pano is perfect, loose the rest in the bin

Damn, I want to go sailing!

Roger

[dbutler]

What! Wow a difference! That pano really is powerful. Good Job!

I have no idea what the hell is going on in my brain, but I trust you understood what I meant? Geesh!