This shot was take on a gloomy day, dense fog, really nothing at all interesting to photograph, until I got to this partially frozen lake in the city park where I live in Norway. It actually would have been a interesting color photo but I was focused in making it into a B&W kind of fine art photo. What do you think?
Very nice indeed. It seems you used a tripod so I would have expected the timbers on the pier to be parallel to the bottom of the frame, but I know sometimes the real world is difficult and sometimes a pier might not be 90 degrees to the shore/horizon making that difficult without introducing other iissues like slopping horizons. It is a lovely image. Well done.
Hi Marco,
A nice image indeed. The frozen water is a nice mid-ground separating the dock and the trees. My eye wants to look at the dock and leaves scattered on the surface but gets pulled to the bright sky. I might think about using an ND filter on the sky to reduce the brightness a bit, Congrats on the image!
Mike
Lovely image, basically everything Ian and Michael said. If you'd used a nd grad like Michael suggested, you wouldn't have got that bright halo around the central trees which I find distracting. Looking at the image its: calm, serene, soothing, BRIGHT (if you get what I'm trying badly to explain!)
The distracting double halo looks like dodge and burn which did not quite work. I can see what he was trying for and with a bit more subtle use of bigger brushes it could work very well. I still find the non parralel timbers irritating. But overall a very lovely landscape is almost within sight.
I wonder if Marco had set his tripod a little further along the pier and made more of a feature of the tree (and at the same time negating some of the little distractions like the timbers and some of the leaves) would this have elevated this image? It really is lovely as it is and it would be brilliant if the OP had the opportunity to re-shoot - I'd love to see it!
Monochrome and some fog....i am on board then. The dock seems a bit off, but other than that, i like it.
Thanks all for the feedback, I do agree that the timber on the dock is a little irritating, I did try some skewing in Photoshop but didn't actually work very well. Have to wait for the next foggy day (where living in Norway can be any day now), to re-shoot the image and apply your suggestions.
I love it! Dock directs me deeper into the photo. I'm on board with the dock comments. Thank you for sharing.
Thanks Scot, I will fix the dock issue when the next foggy day comes by :)