Spring Sunrise on the Potomac

[MB1]

I was riding into work when I saw these guys on the river. I turned around racing to get ahead of them then shot straight into the suns reflection on the river.

[mondo1090]

i really like this shot alot, normally id say it was two yellow or two bright but i think it works good

[ZL4life]

are these natural colors?

[Rocket_Scientist]

i really like this shot alot, normally id say it was two yellow or two bright but i think it works good

"two yellow"? or "two bright"? What does that mean?
"Too" yellow? or "two" notches too bright?

... But I, too, think it works well!

[mondo1090]

im saying its really bright and yellow or orange and think darker tones might work better, or maybe a b/w version, and also courious if these are natural colors

[LeeIs]

I think it works. The almost square format is about the only thing that bothers me a bit. I just can never get used to square photos.

I really like the position of the paddle and the gold tones with all those glittery highlights.

[GB1]

Hey MB - pretty neat shot. I think it might be better though if you adjusted the colors away from orange to either more yellow or more red. Try it.

Composition wise, it seems a little off to me. Or chopped off. Maybe because the reflection is cut off at the top, or perhaps it's that I seem more of a horizontal pic here rather than a vertical one.

Anyway - good catch
GB

[readingr]

A beautiful photo, I understand what others are saying about the square format and a little bit more in front of the canoe would have been nice.

Lovely colours wouldn't change a thing.

Roger

[MB1]

are these natural colors?

I shot this image with a camera-of course the colors aren't natural.

I had my 5D set on landscape and +2 saturation but the downloaded image was still fairly overexposed from shooting directly into the light so I reduced the brightness and exposure in Aperture and cropped the far riverbank to get the squarish final image.

It ended up looking about like what I visualized when I first saw the folks on the river.

[ZL4life]

haha, ok. it worked pretty well. i agree with what GB said, it feels a little chopped off. i think if you had the boat man in the bottom 1/3 of the photo, it would be great