A cold day in North Yorkshire

[DaveRob]

Took this at Scar House Reservoir...... By Gum it were cold lad...... !!!

Any thoughts?

[Wavelength]

I don't have to think...i just enjoy seeing this

[Geoff F]

Too late now, but I would have been willing to lose a little of the foreground to see more of that interesting sky.

[Shadowman]

Maybe add some fog? Nice perspective and conversion.

[Dave Humphries]

Hi Dave,

I had a similar thought to Geoff, more sky would be nice - I did also play with shifting the LyteBox down off the bottom of my screen to see if losing some foreground improved things, but decided that alone, that didn't really help significantly.

However, the most obvious thing that crossed my mind was that I'd really like to have seen it bigger than the 600 x 434 pixels here - twice that would be great and make more of an impression on LyteBox viewers.

On a final tongue in cheek note; it doesn't seem that cold - the puddles here in Windsor were frozen this morning, whereas yours are not

Ducking for cover, Dave

[Rebellion]

I love the line, and I also more sky seems a good option, by placing the camera closer to the ground to have more sky but keep the perspective....but it's a good photo in my opignon...and your call

[Donald]

Dave - What was your compositional idea in including foreground nearer than where the walls exit the frame on the left and right? And I ask that very conscious of the wording of your signature .... which I love by the way.

[Dave Humphries]

I love the line, and I also more sky seems a good option, by placing the camera closer to the ground to have more sky but keep the perspective.

Warning - answer from the wrong 'Dave'

When I assessed the picture, I knew why this camera height had been chosen, anything lower or higher would have altered the central placement of the walls and/or required the camera to be tilted up or down to get the necessary background in - that said, this last issue is a compromise, as we've already noted.

Whether a combination of camera tilt and perspective correction in PP would have improved things I'm not sure, they may just cancel each other out and result in no difference - I'll ponder that when less rushed.

Cheers; (the wrong) Dave

[IzzieK]

Very nice shot..but I don't like cold...I am a warm blooded Aussie.

[bnnrcn]

Hi Dave Have you tried cropping the sky ? The composition might look stronger that way

[DaveRob]

Thanks to you all for your comments... they are appriciated. Ill open up a little about the shot if I may so you can follow what happened to get this image.

My wife is interested in photography and fancied a day out so it became my duty to find a suitable location for her to practice some landscapes. I had been inspired by some shots Ive seen of Ladybower reservoir in Derbyshire..... mainly the one of the great 'plughole' in operation, especially the long exposure stuff.... feel free to google this for inspiration.
Anyway, with the help of google images and a review of local reservoirs I came up with Scar House. Its an hours drive but the weather in North Yorkshire has been atrocious with floods and rain so off we went. Arriving at the car par for the dam we had a quick walk over to see what was what. Although the image shows as a damp day the wind crossing the reservoir made it feel more like -5 C...... I had originally thought that I would do some long exposure landscapes but in my cold fuggled brain found I had left the Big Stopper at home so opted for a convergent lines type image. The sky, to be honest, was just a grey mass on the day and its only due to post and lightroom that I got what you see here.... Lack of a grad filter meant a somewhat blown out sky that I have only just recovered enough to be presentable. The road being in the forground before the wall sides start .... I felt opened the begining of the image.... the walls are actually not that far apart and I felt that a bit more road spread the perspective...... others may differ and Ill look at it again cropped differently. I did try to get the height at the wall center height as it 'looked right', lower seemed to be closing in with the walls. Its an image I like from a shoot I didnt expect with the shot I wanted left at home in the bag. We all make mistakes, but my wife enjoyed taking some images and I snapped this one instead of the one I thought I was going for.

Thank you all for your input it is appriciated
DaveR

[TonyW]

Sorry I'm a bit late to the party here. One of the things I like about this image is the symmetry of the walls about the vertical axis and also about the horizontal axis, although I would crop just a little from the bottom to get it balanced. It could also be rotated slightly anti-clockwise to get the level horizontal.