Serenity

beanart · Jul 30, 2012

Just uploaded this shot to 1x.com in hopes to finally get published with them! Love the calmness to this photo, which is what I was going for. Shot this in Thousand Islands, NY on Alexandria Bay. The horizon is Canadian border. I got out at 5am to enjoy the peaceful waters and just appreciate the peace. I wanted a photo which reflected those feelings and this is what I came up with!

Let me know what you think

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sapper6fd · Jul 30, 2012

Great photo but to me the sky is blown out and distracts from the subject of the image.

LaFoto · Jul 31, 2012

To my mind, there's too much sky there, a sky that only holds interest up to the top of the pink cloud (pink at the bottom, grey at the top). That part should go and the photo gets much stronger. Other than that, I do like the pastell colours and feel of utter calm.

Forkie · Jul 31, 2012

I disagree with both the other opinions and think this image is superb.

Any more detail in the sky would distract from geometric triangular shapes created by the boat and the horizon. The graduation from almost white through purple/pink to blue is mesmerising.

The whole image has a excellent balance of negative space and interest.

Well done!

beanart · Jul 31, 2012

LaFoto said:
To my mind, there's too much sky there, a sky that only holds interest up to the top of the pink cloud (pink at the bottom, grey at the top). That part should go and the photo gets much stronger. Other than that, I do like the pastell colours and feel of utter calm.

I appreciate your opinion and critique, but I have to say I disagree! This photo was intended to convey absolute simplicity and serenity. To me, there shouldn't be too much details and "clutter" in order to capture intrest. It's the minimalism that I was shooting for and adding more detail to the negative space I feel would take away from the whole goal of the image I had in mind.

Let me know what you think!

Thanks again though!!

Jaemie · Jul 31, 2012

I don't understand. This has nothing at all to do with Firefly.

I like the surreal quality in this photo. The colours are just a bit overpowering, that is, they are just a bit too far beyond natural and that bothers me for some reason. But it's a stunning image!

Majeed Badizadegan · Jul 31, 2012

It's a nice, minimal, simple image. I'd probably bring in the crop at original aspect ratio to give just about 1/3 of the frame to the sky. It may be ever so slightly tilted as well.

beanart · Jul 31, 2012

Rotanimod said:
It's a nice, minimal, simple image. I'd probably bring in the crop at original aspect ratio to give just about 1/3 of the frame to the sky. It may be ever so slightly tilted as well.

I definitely see that cropping out a portion of the sky could benifit the image as a whole. Thank you! However the tilt is bothering me as well... the canoe is slightly tilted but if i correct that then the horizon is skewed and looks even worse than it does now. The horizon is perfectly level though.

Forkie · Aug 1, 2012

Just noticed; is that a bolt of lightning on the right in the pinkish cloud?

beanart · Aug 1, 2012

Forkie said:
Just noticed; is that a bolt of lightning on the right in the pinkish cloud?

Ha not too sure what that was. I'm pretty sure it was a passing motorboat with a mast light on the top. Or possibly a cell tower of some sort on the horizon. I saw it too and was wondering the same thing. Sounds cooler if I said it was lighting though... lets go with that!!!