I’m really fond of this picture, particularly the light and the perspective. Composition and cropping has been a bit challenging, I’ll gladly hear any suggestions! Hope you like it, happy exposures everyone :)
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Nice dream.
Mmm, you want that much sky and that sort of width, so I can see why you end up with that amount of blurred stuff at the bottom to balance the sky.
It's pointless saying "Take the shot from somewhere else with a foreground that works better: the swans will be where they will be, and having the headland fade into the sea between the two swans seems right, setting the angle.
My only suggestions are to trim the bottom as much as your artistic sense allows (but I guess you've done that), and perhaps brighten and flatten it towards the photos average to de-emphasize it. Maybe vignette?
Ahah, thanks :)
Your first point is the key. On your suggestion, trimming the bottom would put the reflection out of the middle - which I didn’t like - and the darker color I thought helped “hiding” it a bit and balance the brighter sky. I tried vignette on this other shot, while in the post photo I didn’t want to darken the sky (I’m really not a fan of adding artificial vignetting):
I’ll for sure work on this perspective with the 45mm and longer lenses, taking into account the feedback I got here :)