Gazeebo/Pond reflection shot.

[MagikTrik]

Shot in South Park, PA just moments after sunrise.
larger/cleaner view here: http://magiktrik.deviantart.com/art/Reflections-103833393

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y242/MagikTrik1000/PondWater.jpg

[edeca]

I like it, but my eye is drawn to the leaves at the bottom. Perhaps because the photo seems to be divided in half (hut/reflection at the top, leaves at the bottom) and the reflection points downward like an arrow.

Maybe a slightly tighter crop to get rid of the leaves at the bottom, but otherwise it's great.

[Kerrits]

I like it. I agree that the eyes are drawn to the foreground, but a tighter crop will move the horizontal like closer the the half of the photo. I would say keep it as is.

[HappySnapper90]

Yes as other have stated the clumps of leaves at the very bottom are bad in this photo, but crop to where the leaves become individual and it looks much better.

[Nathan]

I flipped my laptop upside-down. It's very interesting.

[queequeg]

I really like the photo, I do agree with what people have said about the leaves and to me, it feels somewhat awkward with the gazebo being in the center. Just my $0.02.

[gmacmt]

I dont think I would crop it. It would be boring without the leaves, IMO. Really cool shot. The leaves really provide a good contrast to the backdrop.

[Mike_S08]

Nice shot.. I am from around the corner Baldwin

[JuiceBox]

I wish the gazebo wasn't centered. Off-centering it a bit would be much nicer on the eyes. The conversion also seems off; there's too much grey and not a whole lot of contrast. Are you creating two hue/saturation layers from a color photo, desaturating color in the first layer and moving the hue slider in the other? Or are you just desaturating/ letting the camera do the conversion?

[MagikTrik]

I wish the gazebo wasn't centered. Off-centering it a bit would be much nicer on the eyes. The conversion also seems off; there's too much grey and not a whole lot of contrast. Are you creating two hue/saturation layers from a color photo, desaturating color in the first layer and moving the hue slider in the other? Or are you just desaturating/ letting the camera do the conversion?
Thank you. You actually made me realize something. I've been so preoccupied with "finishing it all in Lightroom to save time" that I think I've been neglecting the smaller things in some of my work. I think this one is alright, actually if you look at the link I put at the top (before it was compressed) I believe you may be a bit more satisfied with the conversion although the trees in the BG were covered with fog but the point is I can see a ton of different things I NEVER would have let slide when Photoshop was a bigger part of my workflow.
I really think I need to step back & reevaluate how I'm doing things here.

[JuiceBox]

I do stuff like that all the time. I'll work a photo for 45 minutes or so, post it, and people will tear it apart. I'll feel like I don't know what I'm doing, but then spend another hour or so working the photo and it will come out much much better.