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Something is bothering me about this image.  Maybe the foreground twigs in the water competing with the cloud reflections.  Should I clone them out?  What do you see?  Anything bother you about this image?  Any help on this one is appreciated.

It's very nice as it is, I think, and I usually like what is naturally there.  But in this case, I think you're right about the competition.  I might clone out just that bent-over twig and see what it looks like.  I also would try to lighten up the foreground just a bit to show just a little more detail there.

In His Grip,
Kevin

Thanks so much for your thoughts/suggestions, Kevin.  I will try them and see what I think.  I agree, I usually like to have my images show real nature, not some created image...unless of course I'm going totally creative and obviously unreal, because I'm in the mood.  I've done that on a few occasions.  Like this...

I see what you are saying. I think what distracts me is that the cloud reflection is more vibrant and just seems to pop more drawing the eyes there. It makes me wonder what would happen if you were to crop the left side out just past the branch. Just a thought it is a beautifully captured scene non the less. 

Beautiful capture.

And the little one too, I think and in the camera club, we were told not to try and take other peoples pictures for them, in other words, not to chop and change everything around, but in this case, I think the picture is simply the cloud and its reflection, and perhaps just a sliver of banking in the foreground. The picture is balanced well with the heavy silhouette of the distant hills, I think the foliage detracts completely. What beats me is that with a digital camera, you have the means to take ever so many shots of a scene, that a few variations of the same subject, wont use your memory card space up, I don't mean machine gunning the subject, but half a dozen to a dozen pictures until you feel you've exhausted a subjects potential, and here would be the ideal subject.

Quote from: Summicron on November 25, 2008, 07:54:56 PM
And the little one too, I think and in the camera club, we were told not to try and take other peoples pictures for them, in other words, not to chop and change everything around, but in this case, I think the picture is simply the cloud and its reflection, and perhaps just a sliver of banking in the foreground. The picture is balanced well with the heavy silhouette of the distant hills, I think the foliage detracts completely. What beats me is that with a digital camera, you have the means to take ever so many shots of a scene, that a few variations of the same subject, wont use your memory card space up, I don't mean machine gunning the subject, but half a dozen to a dozen pictures until you feel you've exhausted a subjects potential, and here would be the ideal subject.

I usually do exhaust a scene.  I have umpteen 4GB cards and several extra batteries, so enough memory is not the problem.  That night, I probably shouldn't have even been out in the cold shooting, as I still was quite ill.  We had mainly gone to scope out the place, (hoping to just drive the loop) looking for flocks of migrating birds and where I wanted to shoot when I got well.  As the sun started setting the light was just gorgeous and I couldn't stand it anymore.  I told my hubby to stop the car and got several shots as the light went down.  I took the "pastels" and others from that same spot!   Anyway, I was lucky to get the shots I did.  Don't worry, I will be going back to reshoot and exhaust the area.


See other shots from that night, here...http://shotsnthoughts.blogspot.com/2008/11/lake-lowell-dusk.html.   

Okay, here's the image again with the smaller twigs removed. 


Here it is again with the twigs removed as well as the shadows lightened a bit.


Well? What do ya think?  Which version do you like best?  Do tell.      I like the top rework the best.

Yes it does help a lot, the sappling balances up the shore better, those twigs did vie for attention. What I like about this picture, is the relationship of the distant shore and the arial perspective of the line of distant mountains, the depth between them and the patch of land in the foreground, is enormous, it sets up a yearning to see and explore the further land, and it needs as little as possible to detract from this sense of trying to project oneself over to that far country over there, I've only felt this in a few pictures, and yours is one of them, without the twigs you've managed to heighten this mood.