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After some constructive criticism please.

This is a shot of what my kids call the 'lower lake'. The shot is a long exposure in infrared, with some added film grain.

http://www.nikonaustralia.com/gallery/Other/lower_lake

Here's my thoughts. At first I thought the shot was far too busy, but after a while I found that this 'busyness' was not actually a bad thing for me.. it gave me plenty to dwell upon in the shot. I would have also liked to have exposed for longer to get star trails.. but there is always next time.

Over to you.

Cheers

very nice - although I'm not a huge fan of IR.

As a suggestion, have you tried cropping to avoid the foliage in the foreground? Not sure how it would look, maybe just burning a little to reduce the whiteness of it would help.

I like the fact you can make out stars, although a slightly darker sky would have shown them better.


Regards,

i might make a couple of adjustments as per your suggestions... will let you know...

Xerebus, I can't give you any critisism constructive or otherwise because I've never tried IR, but I do have a question. How come the trees are so obviously IR but their reflection in the water is very normal?

the trees had direct light from behind me reflecting on them.... in the original shot, you can't actually see any reflection in the water... i had to play a lot with contrast to actually start to see the reflection...

Hi Xerubus
Don't know anything about IR so cant comment on this aspect. Re the foreground - I actually think it might improve with a touch more of the foreground included...but then I know too well that experience of making multiple croppings of same image and at the end going...well quite like them all really - gets confusing. Like the shot before on your website - silk clouds.
Vic