Dean R Specker

Yes, a person sitting on the rocks fishing would have made an entirely different (considerably better) story. One day I will have the nerve to ask a stranger to take their photo. 🙂

Graham,

Thank you for your comments. I am new to this site and was unaware of the Shark Tank forum until Rob politely mentioned it. I am now posting in the Shark Tank and am receiving valuable feedback.

Yes, I did put the foreground in by choice. I am really new to photography and realized I liked others’ photos with a foreground because of the…[Read more]

lol Robert,

It would have been tempting to do just that. For me, however, a good day of fishing is sitting on the bank with a line in the water and no bait on the hook.

Dean

Thank you Beth,

I rotated my camera left and right and shose this comp for the very reasons you pointed out. I’m glad it worked.

Dean

Beth,

The ISO was at 1000. This is a cropping from the original image. I believe the pattern you see is a combination of these two.

I enjoyed the morning. The cool foggy mist in the air was delight to shoot in.

Dean

Thank you Tom

The removal of those two items could improve the photo. I will give it a try.

Dean

Hello Dan,

I really like the colors. Bringing up the clarity of the river helps.

I am curious about the location. Would you have been able to move to the left a few feet? If so, perhaps the point of the arrowhead shaped reflected background could have ended up on the right third thus putting the entire subject in frame. The foreground branch on…[Read more]

Thank you Dahlia

It was a great morning to be out. There were moments I would liked to have been the one in the kayak.

Dean

Lynne,

Thank you. I remember that morning well. Serene is just the word for that particular morning and location.

Dean

Thank you Dahlia.

I had been waiting weeks for the fall fog to move in. It was worth getting up early on the weekends with coffee thermos and camera in hand.

Dean

Thank you Kent,

This happens to be the same cropping I did on another version. I am still torn between the two cropped versions. I feel the stones on the right help hold your attention in the photo, but the cropped version does as you said…allows the subject to be more prominent.

Thank you for noticing those two small items. I had not…[Read more]

Thank you John.

I enjoyed observing and photographing the evening.

Dean

Thank you Kent.

It was a beautiful evening and I am so glad I had my camera.

Dean

Gerald,

Thank you for your comments. A pro photographer told me there are two rules to exposure when learning manual; Rule 1: Check your histogram Rule 2: Refer to rule 1. He was correct. I have my histogram displayed on my LCD screen all the time when shooting. As Rob pointed out, I still have a lot to learn when processing, but my RAW file…[Read more]

The cropping does add balance to the photo. I appreciate the tips and edit.

This particular cloud will never exist again, but the tips will be very helpful with future shootings when composing my shots.

Thank you Dahlia. This is actually the first of only three I have chosen to hang on my wall.

I did brighten the lightning bolt a little. It occurred just as I pushed the shutter button and I caught the last part of the lightning strike. Any more brightening and it would have been too obvious. Yes, it would be better with a little more sky on top to balance it vertically.

Thank you Robert

Thank you Kent. The pattern was actually due to the fog. I was standing right in the middle of it.