5D + 300L f/4 IS.

Very nice!!!! I would like to see more.

Steve

Hi There: Welcome to the list!

Nice work, BTW.

Mike.

If you're going to carry on contributing stuff like this, keep coming back!

My only criticism would be that I'd like to see a little more space on the left: the dark arc is a bit close to the edge of the shot. The colour is gorgeous, though.

Jeremy

I'm with you Jeremy... More space on the left and it might have more balanced. Other than that - and it's not a 100% sure thing - it's a very very nice photo. Composition, mood and colors are well executed.

Thank you for all the critiques.

This was an experimental effort. I got my hands on "Photoshop LAB Colour" by Dan Margulis the other day and after getting through the first chapter I decided to try the recipe on this image.

It promises to be a good book. There is a lot of excess verbiage in the Foreword (by one David Biedny) and in the Introduction - the way they go on and on, it is as if you are about to be lead into the abstruse world of Quantum Field Theory. But I can look past that. Margulis does seem to have a lot of good material in there.

Just lovely. Would also be interesting as a long pano. (On my wall, specifically.)

Subject, composition, all wonderful! But I must say, the color screams "fake" to me. I wasn't there, of course, so I don't know for sure, but you mention you used the LAB color techniques from Margulis's book (I use them too). I wonder if a little less of whatever you did would give a better result?

Peter

Peter,

As I mentioned in an earlier rejoinder, I was experimenting. Once I have finished the Margulis book and digested the LAB techniques, I hope to be able to better interpret this image.

The foreground colour is indeed very close to what it was that morning. It is the section over the water horizon that I deliberately interpreted in this manner to give a 'water-colour'-like effect (by dropping a mask and blending it using "Screen.")