I also really like the slight tilt to the right of the tie line. It messes with the eye a bit (just enough to add to the "is it shopped?" feeling) and if it was either parallel to the frame of slightly tilted to the left, it would be a very different image, imo.
I love this! its very cool im wondering how you did this with 8 second shutter speed?... is that right? was the water very still? I perefer the colour version but the black and white is also very cool. Well done.
The lake was incredibly still, no ripples it seemed. Mind you, my memory of that trip, especially the earliest hours, are a blur, as it was so ridiculously early ISO100, f/14 or something gave me a shutter speed of 8 seconds. No filter used. This was taken before the sun rose, so there really wasn't all that much light to begin with. The boat didn't move a cm, it seems, which I really like.
Well seen, well captured. At first glance, it looks too... perfect. And you look at it carefully, all around,and then you think - either this is the best photoshopping I've ever seen, or someone got very, very lucky, and had the skills to capture it. Congratulations.