The Run.. C&C Welcome

[fotugraphy]

Hi, going forward on my photography venture I stopped and clicked another shot. Can you please review it and let me know what exactly is missing for it to make it much better?

It was clicked in Varanasi, India while i was mentoring the Photo Tour.

Please provide your views and suggestion with composition, frame, crops.

Thank You

PS : Please click on the image for lightbox screen view (Highly recommended)

[Pixl8tor]

How small we are in this great big world.
Wonderful composition.
Bill

[Wavelength]

The power of photography; a story in a single frame; outstanding

[fotugraphy]

How small we are in this great big world.
Wonderful composition.
Bill

Thanks a lot for your kind review

[fotugraphy]

The power of photography; a story in a single frame; outstanding

Thanks a lot for your kind review and appreciation

[LePetomane]

Raj, Nicely done.

[Ndukes]

I might have gone for just a little more of the water with the sun's reflection but I really like it as it is. It reminds me of many long runs some years ago when I was training for marathons.
Beautiful composition.

[Shadowman]

Nice capture.

[Geoff F]

I agree with a little bit more water.

The sun is rather high in the sky and seems disconnected with the rest of the scene; but you probably can't do much about it. Although I'm tempted to crop out the sun and produce something around 4 x 5 ratio with more of a subdued pastel tint feel to the scene.

[madcrow]

Your are after getting great advice but if it were mine I would leave it alone.

[mugge]

Raj, I'm with Maurice on this one. No more to say.
Cheers Ole

[Manfred M]

Raj, whenever you shoot directly into the sun, the flare kills contrast in your image and you really need to push that back in. I find you really need that on the trees with this shot.

The other thought is that the sky really lacks tonality, so I wonder if pushing a gradient into the image to give the sky some variation might be appropriate as well.

You might want to look at cleaning your sensor, as both of these things really bring out the dust spots on it (which I removed in this edit).


(with gradient + contrast)




(with contrast increase only)

[bnnrcn]

Hi Raj IMO your original looks great without the sun and its reflection. I would clone both of them and leave the rest as is .

Hi, going forward on my photography venture I stopped and clicked another shot. Can you please review it and let me know what exactly is missing for it to make it much better?

It was clicked in Varanasi, India while i was mentoring the Photo Tour.

Please provide your views and suggestion with composition, frame, crops.

Thank You

PS : Please click on the image for lightbox screen view (Highly recommended)

[fotugraphy]

Raj, Nicely done.

Thanks a lot

[fotugraphy]

I might have gone for just a little more of the water with the sun's reflection but I really like it as it is. It reminds me of many long runs some years ago when I was training for marathons.
Beautiful composition.

Thanks a lot for your kind review and appreciation

[fotugraphy]

Nice capture.

Thanks a lot for your appreciation

[fotugraphy]

I agree with a little bit more water.

The sun is rather high in the sky and seems disconnected with the rest of the scene; but you probably can't do much about it. Although I'm tempted to crop out the sun and produce something around 4 x 5 ratio with more of a subdued pastel tint feel to the scene.

Thanks a lot for your kind review and suggestion

[fotugraphy]

Your are after getting great advice but if it were mine I would leave it alone.

Thanks a lot for your kind review. It is my learning phase, so asking for reviews

[fotugraphy]

Raj, I'm with Maurice on this one. No more to say.
Cheers Ole

Thanks a lot for your kind review

[fotugraphy]

Raj, whenever you shoot directly into the sun, the flare kills contrast in your image and you really need to push that back in. I find you really need that on the trees with this shot.

The other thought is that the sky really lacks tonality, so I wonder if pushing a gradient into the image to give the sky some variation might be appropriate as well.

You might want to look at cleaning your sensor, as both of these things really bring out the dust spots on it (which I removed in this edit).


(with gradient + contrast)




(with contrast increase only)

Thanks a lot for your kind review and suggestion. They are looking really great