On one fall blue bird day in the mountains I was struck with this composition. I thought using the stream break and shore to form a lead to the mountain peak in the background would make this image, but something just seems a little bit off to me. The sky was clear blue, so I made the best use I thought I could of the foreground. I am not totally unhappy with the image, but looking back... I think there is something that could have made this much better...
If nothing else, it makes me forget about winter for a little while :)
Well, the front part of the image is not in focus. his may be due to the rocks being under moving water but it is difficult not to notice as it makes up close to one-third of the picture.
How do you think crop this looks? Color is a bit off because I didn't do it with Photoshop.
I actually thought about doing almost the exact same crop; and I think its an improvement in some ways, but I really should have shot it with a faster shutter to fix the motion blur on the shrubbery on the right side of the frame.
Might look at a 1:1 ratio of this with an even tighter crop. I don't know, just too many issues I think to make this a "keeper" - but its fun to play around with marginal images in my down time :)
... and yes; the out of focus foreground is actually just water blur, and I agree, does mess up the frame.
The problem i think may have to do with the flow of water actually leading the eye down to the bottom right and out of the frame which is the opposite of what you're looking for...
Great observation! I think that is exactly the main problem - where I really wanted the mountain peak to be the main focus; everything seems to be leading you away from it!