By the river

Three from this evening, paper mill, my home town. Canon 1Ds MKII, 12-24mm lens.

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I would clone out the stray branches at the extreme left in #1.

#2 is my favourite compositionally but suffers a bit from fish-eye type lens distortion at the sides.

I think #3 would work best if cropped to a square - losing all the vegetation and wall to the right.

Technically they are all perfect (as usual).

I'm not going to comment on the colour but a little devil in me wants to pipe up "I think a cellophane toffee wrapper must have flown up onto your lens!".

Hi Les... Nice night shots...... The reflections on the water look soo smooth . Just a few questions...
1. Why didn't u clone out the plants in the 1st and the 3rd shot...??? and
2. Why have u decided to capture more of sky in the 2nd and 3rd shots?

And u haven't yet told me what r the property rates out there?

wow nice shots! amazing

chander wrote in post #2389799
Hi Les... Nice night shots...... The reflections on the water look soo smooth . Just a few questions...
1. Why didn't u clone out the plants in the 1st and the 3rd shot...??? and
2. Why have u decided to capture more of sky in the 2nd and 3rd shots?

And u haven't yet told me what r the property rates out there?

1. Yes, good point (and thanks Mike also),I'll work on that later.

2. One of the reasons I popped out this evening was that it was windy, and a few clouds around, therefore I was hoping for a long exposure/wispy cloud effect. I don't normally use filters for this kind of shooting (there is so exposure latitude in long exposure shots), but I think a grad would have helped to balance the image out a bit.

Mike Bell wrote in post #2389798
I'm not going to comment on the colour but a little devil in me wants to pipe up "I think a cellophane toffee wrapper must have flown up onto your lens!".

It beats the rose tinted glasses I normally wear

Hmm,i think # 1 gets my attention,its seems like a much more powerfull image , probably from the angle it was taken.
Also it seems more contrasty and the water flow is certainly obvious and atractive.

I also like that colour,nice and warm glow to it.

Here'a a similar one taken about 3 years ago, at twilight.

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"but a little devil in me wants to pipe up "I think a cellophane toffee wrapper must have flown up onto your lens!".

lol

Lesmac wrote in post #2389984
Here'a a similar one taken about 3 years ago, at twilight.

I love this one Les...I find it to be a simply superb shot ...
Now u have got to tel me the property rates out there and this time I am not joking !!!

#4 is definately my favourite of the bunch

water like glass and motion blur in one

i like it

#1 for me.
The lines, reflection and flow of water are most interesting.

I like number one compositionally but not sure about the colour, or lack of it, though? I agree about cloning but prefer your usual bluer tones and skies (but was obviously a bit late on for that).

I like your twilight shot the best, but of the first three, #1 has the strongest lead-in and #2 has the best sky effects.