Icy Resevoir

[Dzerzhinski46]

Cheyenne Canyon Resevoir. Comments and critique welcome as always.

Dzerzhinski

[gahspidy]

the top pic is stronger out of the two simply because I can see the rocks and get a better feel and visual of the texturs and shapes and detail. both images suffer from being too dull and gray flat. I'm not sure you could bring anything out in your editing program, as it just seems this was a overcast day. These elements you have captured would really be more appealing within better lghting to bring out shadows and tones in the rocks,, glistening areas of the ice and highlight the ripples inthe water. And i would think to rid of the piece of land in the top right corner of the frame

[Chunk]

I have to agree with Gary's assessment of the lighting problem. One other thing you can try in situations like this is to try and get the major elements (band of ice, band of water, band of rock) to angle through the frame rather than being close to horizontal. This will add interest and because of the perspective you'd get, depth. I like the silouhetted plants near the shoreline and think they could be made more prominent in the frame as well.

[Dzerzhinski46]

the top pic is stronger out of the two simply because I can see the rocks and get a better feel and visual of the texturs and shapes and detail. both images suffer from being too dull and gray flat. I'm not sure you could bring anything out in your editing program, as it just seems this was a overcast day. These elements you have captured would really be more appealing within better lghting to bring out shadows and tones in the rocks,, glistening areas of the ice and highlight the ripples inthe water. And i would think to rid of the piece of land in the top right corner of the frame

Dear Gary,

Thanks for the assement. I have been quite disapointed with the B&W mode on the digital I am using. Not so rich, more just middiling gray all the way. As you say, not enough contrast. As to the lighting, it was late in the day, the sun had gone down mostly and I did not get to the resevoir until then. Probably worth a reshoot. Here is a modified version, but I doubt it was worth fiddiling with. I think I managed to make it look more like an infrared than anything, but it looks surreal now. Oh well!!

Dzerzhinski

[Chunk]

Most BW modes on cameras do not seem to be worth using. Shoot in color and do the conversion in software. Splitting an image to RGB can give good images as well as the channel mixing method.

[JK_Photo]

Dz,
I think your best bet with this is to go do a reshoot, no offense.
I tried playing with it and the contrast just isn't there. The suggestions about angling are the best compositionally. If you coud get the three bands(rocks, water, ice) in an angled shot in better light you'd have something.
Keep shootin!