Phantom lake

[crystalb]

I should probably put more of my pics in this section The trees are bugging me the most.....blurry
Have at'er

[tirediron]

Hmmm... lots of potential here, unfortunately, there a couple of technical issues. The first is the focus that you already mentioned, and second is the exposure. I'd like to see this at least 2/3 stop brighter overall. I suspect that this is an image that might have worked very well as an HDR. You've made good use of the wood in the jetty as a source of leading lines, but there's not much to hold the interest of the eye when it gets to the middle of the image.

[Mad Aussie]

I agree with TI pretty much here.
The jetty needs to be the feature to hold interest and to do that it needs to be a bit brighter and a bit sharper. The lack of sharpness though is probably the compression the site does when you attach a large image. I think if you keep it under 250kb it remains much sharper.

If you take this same photo with a strong sunset/sunrise then you'd get a very nice photo because the jetty's lines would lead us to the colour in the sky and back.

[Jason]

I agree about the focus. I don't know what aperture you used, but maybe a longer exposure and smaller aperture would tighten the trees up a bit. Very nicely composed though!

[Mad Aussie]

Please feel free to edit my photos

Well ok

Here's kinda what I see ...


I could have done better with the original of course but I think gives an idea of how a sharper jetty with more brightness and colour to it becomes a reasonable feature for the photo and leads the eye out to the colour in the sky.
The blurry trees are no longer a problem I don't think. Some may disagree.

[AcadieLibre]

The adjustments Mad made really do not help it. I think the idea of the photograph was good but the final print just not a keeper. No real visual appeal, sometimes we all do photos we want to like but for some reason the photo we wanted and the one we get are not the same.

[jlabel]

I think the composition if too simple, tho I liked the sub exposition