This is my first post to the forum. I am trying to improve my photography and have been impressed by the examples I have seen on the site.

Any comments would be welcome.

Simon,
I like it. Very moody. Very serene. I can fault it technically but, ultimately, it works at an aesthetic level and that's all that counts.

Tell me more about what you were trying to achieve with this image.

Jim

Hi Simon,

Welcome aboard. As Jim mentioned, it has a very moody feel about it. It has a lot of potential. I am not sure how others feel here, but here are a few items that I would like to bring up:

(1) The horizon is lopsided by a degree or so counter clockwise.
(2) I think the sky dominates too much of the frame. I would play a bit with cropping the image and see what you could do with it.
(3) The heavy light at the top right of the frame is slightly distracting.

Over-all though, as I said above, I think the shot has a lot of potential. Jim asked a good question. What are you trying to achieve with it?

Thanks
James

Thank you Jim, I appreciate both your own comments and those of James. I walk about this place a lot, and the light seemed particularly attractive this day, as did the mist settling on the reservoir. I used to do more black and white photography but am currently trying to understand more about colour. I was trying to get the moment when people were in the scene and gave some scale to the landscape, and at the same time capture something of the particular quality of the moment.

I do believe however that I do not give enough thought to exactly what I am trying to achieve. Thanks again.

Simon.

Simon,
careful, this right brain/left brain stuff can confuse things even more . Sometimes it's just the light, the moment and the place. It just feels right.

On the other hand, when I go to a particular place at a particular time, I have an idea of what I want to capture -- an image in my head -- and I try to recreate that image in the camera. If something else presents itself, I hope I'm open to it but at least I have a creative goal going in.

Nice work. Look forward to seeing more of it.

Jim