Stranger in a stange land + repost

My apologies for the corny title. This is an image from North Lake up in Bishop Creek. I tried to get something other than the iconic wide angle shot of the lake. I'd be curious about your thoughts. Thanks!

Compression is pummeling this image as well. The full size has much better detail.

Nikon D300 / Nikkor 18-200

Thanks for looking and/or commenting.

Mike,

This is fabulous. I'm glad someone at least decided to do something different from North Lake! I've never been, but I might as well have been...,

The only thing I can say is that this looks a bit bright on my monitor. I'd say drop this down a tad and you have a winner. Beautiful color and excellent proportional reflection.

Lon

Mike, I like the comp a lot. I agree with Lon regarding the brightness. You might play around with the contrast just a bit. This is an interesting take on an oft photographed location and subject.

--P

Really well done! I love the muted tones and you have an excellent comp.

I'll echo the above comments about this being a bit bright and possibly in need of a contrast nudge. In addition, it looks a bit warm to me. But I like the comp and the color pallette. North Lake and the Bishop Creek drainage in general was truly spectacular this year.

Thanks gents. I will take a look later tonight and see if I can make some adjustments. Perhaps I will post a redo.

Good divergence from the norm, Mike. Good color and nice reflection.

Here's a redo. Based on your comments I made some curves adjustments and cooled down the image with a minor color balance adjustment. I'd love to know if this is better. Thanks!

Muy Bueno! Beautiful before and even better now. Thanks for re-working.

Now I'm getting nitpicky and perhaps this is just me. But in the upper dry branch areas, I "sense" a little magenta. It's subtle and almost insignificant but I've become sensitive to it because of the characteristics of the Fuji film.... An easy fix for me is just opening a Hue/Sat layer and drag the magenta slider down a number of points. Again, no biggie and just my observation.

Otherwise, your work on this was just what I was thinking. I'm really liking this image.

Lon

Sweet job on the repost!!!!

The repost looks great, Mike! I do agree with Lon about the very, very slight magenta cast in the bare branches at the top.

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Thanks again for taking time to look at the re-post. I will go back and reduce the magenta I introduced by cooling down the image. I appreciate everyone's thoughts and help!

Great scene and the repost is an improvement.