Calm backwaters

[bitublack]

C&C welcome.


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[Nishit Dave]

Nice view and reflections, but it seems a bit underexposed. It could do with lifting the shadows.

[Thad E Ginathom]

Lovely. I agree to bringing up shadows a touch.

[ISO]

Very Nice.

[Bharat Varma]

Interesting, and you do tend to post somewhat darker images, so that's ok too. :)
(Go easy on the lifting if you do decide to reprocess. Maybe 5% brighter foliage and 10-15% brighter building structure).

I'd think a slightly more decentered composition for the focal subject would have worked better. Try lowering the building in the image (by cropping, ofc).

[ISO]

Abhishek, I too feel image is bit darker. Curiously I converted it to sRGB, the narrowest gamut screen attached. You will notice around maybe 20% dynamic range is not utilised. 

So you have some room to revitalise this image. If shot is in raw you have more headroom to adjust.

That said, this place is beautiful and shot equally well.

[bitublack]

Thank you everyone. All your feedback is spot-on. The image is indeed underexposed. I was hesitating with shadow-lifting but Krish has shown me a remarkable take in 1x1 and my PP decisions in this image have a substantial scope for improvement.

Interesting, and you do tend to post somewhat darker images, so that's ok too. :)
(Go easy on the lifting if you do decide to reprocess. Maybe 5% brighter foliage and 10-15% brighter building structure).

I'd think a slightly more decentered composition for the focal subject would have worked better. Try lowering the building in the image (by cropping, ofc).

Correct about my preference for left-heavy histogram. I started doing that as a kid to get more saturated colours on film, and ended up liking the overall dark tones, which now creeps into (and sometimes stomps upon) most of my images :).

The point about the decentred composition is also interesting, and something I had not considered. Usually symmetry and reflection oriented images go well with centred subjects, but the over-arching guideline (IMHO) is balance, which covers rule-of-thirds as well as reflections etc. Following your feedback I realize that the visual weight distribution in this image could indeed benefit from de-centering the subject.