Turkish Sunset Pool

[Bowlch]

Hey all, just got back from my holidays and finally got a chance to try out my new Sigma 10-20mm. This was the first time using an ultra-wide and was quite suprised to see how easily I kept getting my foot or tripod food in the frame.

Any comments (good or bad) would be appreciated!



Camera Canon EOS 400D DIGITAL
Exposure 0.067 sec (1/15)
Aperture f/14.0
Focal Length 10 mm
ISO Speed 100
Exposure Bias 0 EV
Flash Off, Did not fire

My flickr link is in my sig

[RecurrentNerve]

Like it, nice colour, nice and sharp.

[sican]

Well, it is a good photo. That's all. It lacks that "Wow" effect.
The atmosphere is nicely captured, with vivid colours and nice vignette.

If I were you, I would crop the edge of the pool (left side of photo) and leave only the water with the sun and the arches with their reflection. It would create a much more interesting photo I believe.
Furthermore I'd even explore the possibilities of creating an abstract photo from those arches and their reflection (for example some tight cropping and rotating the photo 90degrees clockwise)

Anyhow, hope I helped a bit!

Regards,
Alex Cican

[navcom]

Not bad. It's very intriguing for sure. Good exposure, nice color, good sharpness. I especially like the contrasting blue water and red sky. I also like the composition. It has pretty good lines and textures in it. I do agree that there is some "wow" factor missing, but not that much. It might just be a matter of rearranging some of your compositional elements to get a better flow.

[ricklumpas]

I also like it. The image is sharp enough for a landscape and the colors are nice. You almost got a perfect reflection there.
I just wish you did not place the horizon at the center (1/3 sky and 2/3 horizon+water).

[Krusty79]

I love the colors and the mood. However, I find my eye going to the arches as much as the sun. I'm going to go the opposite route of sican and say I like it better with the arches cropped out. I agree with rick about having less sky in the image.

[Michael_2010]

I think it is a beautiful photograph of a beautiful setting. The converging lines lead my eyes out to the horizon and on into infinity.

I'm sure you took several shots around this pool. Was this the one out of many where the scenery and the lighting all came together?

[Bowlch]

I attempted (due to the extreme views given with any 10mm shot) to keep lines that lead the viewer through the picture. I.e. along the pool edge then across the horizon.

With forthought I would do as ricklumpas said and not put the horizon directly halfway through the image.

This was the only one i felt happy where the colours were just right, due to the light fading so quickly I only had a few minutes to work with.


Thanks all for the opinions and comments, I shall take them on board and try improving with my next set of shots!

[Michael_2010]

My eye is not as trained as those of others that frequent this forum, but I do think it has some "wow" factor with the blending of color and superb clarity. The horizon shift is just a good guideline, but in the end it all just depends upon the overall impact of the composition. And this one works nicely as is.

Did you try any shots looking toward the horizon through the structure to the right of the frame? There had to be some interesting possibilities with all those lines, curves and arches.

[Aleix]

Excellent picture, but as others previously pointed out, cropping in a way where the horizon is not in the center could render even better results. Give it a try