Comments on Wye Marsh picture please

[cityboy_ca]

Took this in late afternoon at the Wye Marsh (Midland, Ontario). Any and all comments would be appreciated.

Thanks.

http://www.aldertons.com/photos/wye_marsh.jpg

[roanjohn]

OOOHHHH..............great capture!!!

There is potential in this shot. Do you post-process your photos??

.......I think that with some added saturation and auto levels, this photo would be STUNNING!!

Ro1

[Leighow]

[quote="cityboy_ca"]Took this in late afternoon at the Wye Marsh (Midland, Ontario). Any and all comments would be appreciated.

Thanks.


Well .. it is a beautiful scene.
All such ponds and marshes await the Canada Geese.
It will take a bit of work to mine the image: I suggest:

1: "Digital Blending" -- see that topic in the Luminous Landscape -- to recover underexposed forest .. Normally you take to shots (OK Sky and OK Trees and blend. You may be able to rescue something here with a dup of your images and blend bright and dark

2: Another idea might to try again in the magic morning hour. We seem to be looking north and a revisited shot with the geese taking off or flying overhead might be possible.

Here is a fast blend that I did to make it look "English". Lovely location, but needs more light.

http://members.rogers.com/hleigh/MARSH.jpg

[BOBinsane]

I'm in favor of the silhouettes and this picture is extremely well taken. I'm not totally in favor of the highlighting of the scene as howie has done, but for like post-card and more commercial purpsoses, that would probably be the route to go.

[ginsing]

Nice composition. The effect is a bit empty. A lonely looking scene. Some color would warm it a bit.

[cityboy_ca]

roanjohn - all I did was add a bit of warmth (10% yellow and red) in PhotoPaint. I'll mess with the levels tonight! Thanks.

Leighow - Wow. I've used blending before but hadn't considered it for this image. I'll have to re-think.

BOBinsane - Thanks. I just mentioned to Leighow that I hadn't considered blending. One of the reasons was that I thought the silhouette worked for this image. But I've got to admit, I can see a better image somewhere between mine and the one that Leighow fixed up.

ginsing - What do you think of the lightened image Leighow provided?

[ginsing]

It has warmth now .cool