Finn's Slough

been looking at this since I took it last night and I'm not sure if doing any more to this image will ruin it, or if there's anything I can do to improve it

any thoughts appreciated!

IMAGE LINK: https://flic.kr/p/tbZe​Gk

Tom,

I'd look to bring up the shadows a bit (while still maintaining the dusk feel). A couple other things that you might want to address (or not, depending preference): burning the upper right corner will give the sky or more consistent look IMO. Also there seems to be a darkish area in the bottom right 2/3s that I'm not quite sure of.

Cheers!

Jeff

Thanks! Good tips and I'll play around with it when I get home tonight

I'd say pretty good one as is. If you wanted to fool around with it a bit, see what a crop from the right side from about where that telephone pole is does for it, there is a large dark mass in that corner, that would cut that back a bit. The problem with that would be messing up the aspect ratio, the photo would start to get kind of skinny. But as I said, I think it works fine as is.

There is something I really like about this pic. Really keeps my interest

Thanks! I'll see if I can lighten up some of the darker areas while playing around with the crop. Definitely appreciate the ideas!

I really like the implied leading lines.

Super-sharp images like this really look jaggy when downrezzed for the forum. The Flickr looks so much nicer, even at the same resolution.

Thanks! I figured I'd put the photo here so no one would have to click on it to see it, but I hadn't considered that, going to do a bit more work on this tonight and see if I can improve it

One thing I did with this that might be causing areas to be a bit darker was using a variable neutral density filter for the first time. I'm not sure how best to process it so I'll see if dodging and burning some of the darker areas might even it out a bit