Bagdad Bog

Gallery: LandscapePosted January 28, 20183,404 views7 comments

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Thank you for your comments and suggestions on my last image. Your suggestions and critiques are invaluable.

I shot this image just as the sun was waking up on a calm, beautiful morning last week. This is just a small bog area just south of the lovely little village of Bagdad, Florida.

Nothing special in the processing or shooting - single image shot, RAW processed in Capture One Pro, post processed in CS6.

Comments, critiques, ans suggestions welcomed and requested. Thanks for stopping by.

Comments

7 comments

Comment posted by Richard Teller on January 28, 2018 at 11:43 AM

A nice very peaceful scene, very calming. For me there is no strong center of focus. My eye was not sure where to land.

Registered on August 23, 2010, 1162 Posts, 6692 Comments

Comment posted by SandyRichardsBrown on January 28, 2018 at 12:10 PM

Very pretty scene, well-composed and captured. The colours are all similar, so you might try saturating the reds to bring them out and showcase them a little.
May be just me, but seems to need a slight CCW to straighten the vertical trees.
Sandy

Registered on November 24, 2003, 3937 Posts, 12909 Comments

Comment posted by Igor Doncov on January 28, 2018 at 3:23 PM

I like this image Bill. I don't seem to have trouble finding the center of focus. The larger version seems to show the fine detail you're after better than the one above. A crop without the sky is kind of nice as well. I might desaturate the greens just a tad. Nice work.

Registered on November 22, 2014, 189 Posts, 2733 Comments

Comment posted by Nick Bristol on January 28, 2018 at 3:58 PM

Bill, This is a nice image. I like the comp and you have some very nice colors. I agree with Igor that the greens could be desaturated just a little. The reflections are great!

Nick Bristol
Lone Rock, WI.

Registered on February 1, 2004, 752 Posts, 14140 Comments

Comment posted by Preston Birdwell on January 29, 2018 at 12:44 PM

Bill, I really like the bare trees, the sedges and the reddish bushes. The yellows and greens in the background do look over-saturated to me, as well. The yellows in the rest of the image look fine, so you might want to mask those out when you adjust the yellow/green saturation.

I am on the fence with a crop from the top. I think the two bare trees need their height in the frame.
--P

Registered on November 1, 2003, 471 Posts, 5188 Comments

Comment posted by Ed Lowe on January 29, 2018 at 4:22 PM

When opening the large view the details and textures in the trees and grasses come to the fore front as does the mirror like reflection, Bill. What do you think of a crop from the top to get rid of those areas of sky showing through? For me that would make this excellent image even stronger. Either way, nicely done.

Ed

Registered on February 7, 2004, 414 Posts, 7115 Comments

Comment posted by David Schoen on January 30, 2018 at 2:42 PM

My eye actually focuses on the big tree on the left-hand side of the image along with its reflection. Very nice arc of brush below that tree along the waterline. Really needs to be seen large. On my monitor which was recently calibrated, the greens look pretty good. I appreciate this level of saturation.

Registered on November 6, 2006, 1213 Posts, 4587 Comments