Evening clouds

I like it. I like the FG curve as well as the curve in the clouds.

Cool clouds and I especially like the sweeping curve of the water.

quite simply one of the best images ever on nsn. don't be on the fence, shout it from the roof tops.

i'm on my way to show work to some galleries in the big apple. when i get back, i'll leave a post with why i think it is one of the best ever, but give you a hint - it is so wonderfully unaffected. makes me feel like i'm not looking at a photograph of the scene, but rather, just seeing the scene for myself. refreshing honest vision.

I can see why you're on the fence here. The clouds are wonderful, and the foreground curves are great, as EJ said, but there's something missing. The foreground is a bit dark, but I don't think that's the real problem. It needs some oomph, something to give it some impact.

I wonder if simply moving left or right might have helped this. Also a lower or higher shooting angle might help. This really seems to be shot from eye level--shooting from a different level can make a shot stand out.

-Paul

I just tried cropping off the reeds frame left and then giving a bit of a contrast boost with levels which seemed pretty nice to me. Try it and see if that works for you.

I'm not on the fence with this at all. I really like it. It's very different from anything I've seen of yours.

- Dan.

Jenny, I wouldn't be on the fence with this one. I especially like how the sweep in the foreground water complements the clouds.

Thanks everyone for your comments and suggestions.

Paul, I was actually standing on a short levee when I shot this which is the highest point there is in the area. I agree that being higher might have improved it. I tried going down to water level but that didn't work at all.

Harvey, I gave your suggestions a try and I think they were good ones! Thanks for taking the time to try them out.

I have another similar shot from a few feet to the left but the swirl in the foreground is not as pronounced. I am liking these more and more but still can't figure out exactly why. :roll:

This is fantastic!

Love it!

Well Jenny you're really going to have to give up the lie that you don't do wide angle shots! This is lovely. The clouds are very striking of course, but the rest of the elements do a great job of supporting the main event.

For my taste the foreground, especially the sand and reeds, are too dark. I think it works as presented here, but if it were me I would have shot two exposures: one for the sky and one for the foreground (especially for the reeds and sky). This is easy to do and combine in photoshop with digital.

cheers,
Eric

hey jenny

i'm back from the big apple, and have spent some more time with this image and few of your other recent posts.

before i left for nyc, i went out on a limb and stated that this is one of the absolute "best" images i have seen on nsn. getting away from the image and then coming back to it after a few days does nothing but reinforce that opinion.

this image, together with some other recent posts, demonstrates a pronounced sense of a personal vision in the making. your images are starting to carry a sense of "pure" vision, a way of seeing that is gloriously free of the affected sense of technique that prevails in so much of contempory nature photography.

this image in particular, is perfectly composed in as much as it doesn't seemed to be composed at all. it is wonderfully accessible. as a viewer, i feel free to ramble and discover on my own. there is no feeling of being "told" what to look at. your photographic honesty lets nature prevail.

as a photographer, i feel that i am looking at the scene through the eyes of another person who is in the act of discovery. someone who is responding on a deeply personal level to what has "caught their eye".

it is becoming increasingly obvious to me that you are deeply in love with, and genuinely enthralled by your home and its environs. you are starting to create a narative that sings a very sweet song.