River from bridge

[mdmc]

Comments welcome.
Mark.

[Themage]

It almost looks like a painting. Did you use a wide angle lens? The reflection in the water of the trees is curved some. The colors look really nice but i see some uneven lights and darkness in the corners. That sky and water both look really great.

Also is that a house in the way background?

[drg]

Would like to see this when the leaves have changed just a bit more. The sky and its reflection aren't quite good colorwise. Looks like to me that the water is picking up too much tone from some of the trees and foilage. A little selective color adjustment perhaps? The shadow areas need some contrast work to not fade off quite so sharply.

Nice proportion and composition.

[ERdept]

Well, coming from a newbie, that looks beautiful. I'm sure minor flaws can be picked out as others have stated. After all, you are looking for critiques. But to me, the picture looks fantastic. To come even close to that would satisfy me.

I've yet to post my first pic and am still getting familiar with my camera (Nikon D-70).

Cliff

[OldSchool]

Ooooooooo Mark,

That is just very nice. I like the lighting (bright on the water), the clouds, and the sky color. Is this strait off your camera, or did you manipulate it some. The focus and exposure look good. I'm sure that this make a nice enlargement.
Cheers,
Tim

[mjs1973]

Mark,

I love the colors and the lighting in this shot and I think the pano format fits the image well. The one thing that I find a little out of place, it the aqua blue color in the water. It seems very unatural but the rest of the photo looks good to me.

[Mr Yuck]

My jaw literally dropped on that one. I have nothing else to say.

[gahspidy]

Mark, beautiful scene and nice pano. I like it, but would critique that there is a bit too much saturation and contrast, otherwise very nice.

[mdmc]

Thanks for all of your comments. I appologize for this short reply, but I just spent a good deal of time making individual replies in one box and lost them. Gotta go now I'll try again later.
Mark.

[Yoyo Szeto]

Hi Mark,
A great photo! I like the lighting a lot. Did you use the high dynamic range technique?
yoyo

[mdmc]

Themage, 18-70 kit lens on d70 @ 18mm.Yes its a house.

drg, me too on foilage colors. Saturation + 15 Master, and as much red, blue cyan.

ERdept, love praise. I hear L.A has some cool stuff to shoot! post some pics.

Tim, Manipulated a lot, Sharpness levels saturation.

Michael, me too. For some reason I could not fix that little patch.

Mr.Yuck, Thank you ooh so very much!

Gary, Thanks for taking the time to look & comment. I agree with you, but at the same time I'm happy with the image.

yoyo, no, don't know what that is, but I'll check it out.

All, shot in jpeg fine large. Proccessing turned down to minimum. Camera shake was evident so sharpened @level 2+. looks allright at this size. 2 stop graduated nd filter used. Trasition evident at top of tree on left. Was going for a velvia look.
Mark.
Thanks to all of you for taking the time to post.
Mark.