Dawn at the Lake, make it better: I have been clicking away for years but want to get better. I like to just hear the shutter sometimes I think. This its an image that I captured...

Welding Teacher Loc: Greeneville, TN

I have been clicking away for years but want to get better. I like to just hear the shutter sometimes I think.

This its an image that I captured yesterday morning before work. I welcome any ideas on what to do to make it better.

I have recently started using lightroom 5 and like the control but maybe I go overboard.

GWR100 Loc: England

Hi Gerald, I love this image and yes, perhaps you have take a bit of the soft gentle mystery of a misty morning, but I bet you had a great time absorbed in Lightroom??

Geoff

Welding Teacher wrote:

I have been clicking away for years but want to get better. I like to just hear the shutter sometimes I think.

This its an image that I captured yesterday morning before work. I welcome any ideas on what to do to make it better.

I have recently started using lightroom 5 and like the control but maybe I go overboard.

Bmac Loc: Long Island, NY

Hi Gerald,

You might wish to post this nicely composed photograph in the Photo Critique and Analysis Section.

http://www.uglyhedgehog.com/s-117-1.html

This section, Photo Analysis, is to post images regarding a specific question not general critique. It's confusing in the beginning. :)

As it is, this thread will most likely be moved to the Photo Gallery, where critique is also given, but only if asked for. Now you should really be perplexed :D

jjestar Loc: Savannah GA

I think I would have walked more to the right and isolated the two trees on the island if it was possible. As far as LR goes, play on brother there is so much that application can do and it gets better with every update.

Dlevon Loc: New Jersey

[quote=Welding Teacher]I have been clicking away for years but want to get better. I like to just hear the shutter sometimes I think.

This its an image that I captured yesterday morning before work. I welcome any ideas on what to do to make it better.

I have recently started using lightroom 5 and like the control but maybe I go overboard.[/quote.

The image is beautiful as is! As Mies van der Rohe said, "Less is more!". Sometimes, as in art, you can overdo things. Why must we always try to do more to an image? When is enough, enough! Most of the time what you did first is excellent. Enjoy your photo. If you ask that question on the hog, what can you do to it, you'll get a 100 answers! Then which one is correct? I really like that picture.

ront4649 Loc: North Carolina

I'm no professional that's for sure, but I really like your photo. The photo is very pleasing to the eye.

trc Loc: Logan, OH

Welding Teacher wrote:

I have been clicking away for years but want to get better. I like to just hear the shutter sometimes I think.

This its an image that I captured yesterday morning before work. I welcome any ideas on what to do to make it better.

I have recently started using lightroom 5 and like the control but maybe I go overboard.

Gerald,

I really like your image. The one thing that immediately caught my eye that you can fix with LR is the very thin vertical white line about a half inch from the right side on the immediate 'hill slope.' I would use the spot removal tool and take it out/blend it in with the morning fog coming off the water, or the trees, on the hill slope. I have another suggestion, but don't want to overstep my bounds based on forum rules. Since this is not really a critique section, that is all I feel comfortable saying. :)

Nice image overall.

Tom

Penny MG Loc: Fresno, Texas

Welding Teacher wrote:

I have been clicking away for years but want to get better. I like to just hear the shutter sometimes I think.

This its an image that I captured yesterday morning before work. I welcome any ideas on what to do to make it better.

I have recently started using lightroom 5 and like the control but maybe I go overboard.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and I think this is beautiful just as is.

Welding Teacher Loc: Greeneville, TN

Thanks Tom. I noticed it too. I posted this in another part of the forum at http://www.uglyhedgehog.com/t-164809-1.html#2783673. The correct one I think.

Meives Loc: FORT LAUDERDALE

[quote=Welding Teacher]It's a nice composition. Not much to improve. You can click on "store original" if you want us to work on it. This will also show the camera data to discuss your next shoot David

rhin0ski Loc: Boise, Idaho

Welding Teacher wrote:

I have been clicking away for years but want to get better. I like to just hear the shutter sometimes I think.

This its an image that I captured yesterday morning before work. I welcome any ideas on what to do to make it better.

I have recently started using lightroom 5 and like the control but maybe I go overboard.

If you had used "Store Original" we would have more to work with. I saved your image and did some selective highlight and contrast adjustments. It gave it a little depth. Good job on compostion. I love sunrise/sunset scenes.

Selective highlight decrease and contrast increase

UP-2-IT Loc: RED STICK, LA

Welding Teacher wrote:

I have been clicking away for years but want to get better. I like to just hear the shutter sometimes I think.

This its an image that I captured yesterday morning before work. I welcome any ideas on what to do to make it better.

I have recently started using lightroom 5 and like the control but maybe I go overboard.

Gerald, all I can see is some minor clean up. The bushes in the fore-ground and the shore line in the fore-ground as well. A couple small rocks, I guess, in the water to just smooth things out a bit. It is an excellent image you have done well with it.

Muddyvalley Loc: McMinnville, Oregon

I'm not a pro. photographer, but I've made my living with art since the early 70's and started using a darkroom in the 60's. I like it as it it is. Leave the little rocks in. Sometimes the hardest thing to do is to stop working on it.

St3v3M Loc: 35,000 feet

Muddyvalley wrote:

... Sometimes the hardest thing to do is to stop working on it.

So true.

Robert I. Tepper Loc: Rutland, Vermont

I yearn for more 'info' to the left side of your pix. Yes, we 'read' from left to right, but this image needs more to the left. - yeh, typical Democrat !