Weekend Fog

[Dbl]

A few from my weekend fishing trip. Fog was really thick on Sunday morning, thank goodness for GPS with mapping capability! These shots were just before it got real thick.

#1 50D, ISO 100, f4.5, 1/400s, manual exposure, 17-40 lens.

#2 Same settings as above.

#3 50D, ISO100, f5.0, 1/640s, manual.

[Steve Foss]

Gorgeous, Dan, simply great.

[WCS]

Love that first one Dan!

[finnbay]

Great shots! First one is my fave!

[buzzsaw]

First shot is sooo sweet!

[Deitz Dittrich]

Awesome pict.. thanks for sharing it with us..

[polarsusd81]

Those are awesome Dan. First one gets the nod from me as well.

[fishinchicks]

Love the first one. The lake looks like glass. It is a very peaceful looking scene with the rowboat and dock.

[Dbl]

Thanks guys very kind of you to comment. I am wondering on that first shot if a more vertical shot might be better? Any thoughts?

[polarsusd81]

Dan, I like the vertical one better than the horizontal one. Flows nicely with the direction of the dock and the tree hanging in from above.

[Dbl]

Thanks Tom, I agree with you.

[MN Shutterbug]

I'm not sure which one I'd go with. The first one looks much more spacious. Whichever, I love them both.

[polarsusd81]

The only thing I noticed Dan is that the vertical one is about 2 degrees off of level or so. Ever since I started seeing that in some of my older photos I have been working to perfect it, and I know you are a perfectionist. Nothing a quick tweek in PS can't handle though. Did you take your left shoe off for that pic?

It could be a little trickery with the image though.

[mmeyer]

Great stuff Dan. I like the vertical shot the best. It's really nice.

[yakfisher]

I like the first shot best. I like the space on the left and how it all flows into the sun.

[DeeDee]

I really like the first one

[jonny_redhorse]

All Wonderful images Dan!.....

[Jim Almquist]

All great shots Dan but I like the vertical a little bit more.

[Dbl]

Hey no problem Tom and you are correct about being a perfectionist. I think your eyes might be fooled somewhat though. I looked at that myself and the fog bank on the distant shore appears to be throwing things off. The end of the dock is level which I know is also level with the lake.

Of course shooting sports the first thing I check for are horizontals and verticals. I always find it more accurate to use verticals to make sure everything is straight. This one really has no verticals to check for square so I was stuck with a fog bank and dock.

Sometimes I will change a shot even though its level because your eye tells you something is not right. In this case if I rotate it to make the shore look level your eye will go right to that dock and that will look tilted. So I guess its a toss up and in this one I decided to stay with the dock and let the fog do its thing, though that may be the wrong thing.

Thanks to all for the comments.

[polarsusd81]

I kinda figured the dock was the basis for level, and after looking at it again I can see what you are saying. I just wish I could get out and find light like that some day. Nothing short of amazing, no matter what way you look at it.

[Dbl]

Again thanks for pointing it out Tom, I sure has heck don't get it right all that often so its easy to miss things. I think it raises some good points as well on different aspects of a photo and what works and doesn't work.

Feel free to point something out anytime Tom or others reading as well, I'm a big dude who can handle C&C. Can't think of a better way to improve!

[Cicada]

All very nice. I think I like the horizontal version of the first one better. Might have looked cool if you could get all those elements in a panoramic.

[DMN]

Very nice and peaceful shots, I think I would favor the vertical

crop myself.