Morris Sheppard Dam and Brazos River

[Steaphany]

Here is the Morris Sheppard Dam and the Brazos River in Palo Pinto County Texas

[Round Tuit]

Hi Steaphany,

This looks like a beautiful landscape but it would help if you could post a bigger pictures. Most people link to photos hosted on another site. I don't know if you could do that from "My 500px" or "My Deviant"

[LenR]

Flickr would also be another option.....

[billtils]

Agreed. Also, quite an interesting assortment of gear there!

[Steaphany]

Let me see if this will work from this image on Deviant Art, Got it !

[Round Tuit]

Let me see if this will work from this image on Deviant Art, Got it !

Much better. Thank you

[Dave Humphries]

Hi Steaphany,

Thanks for the bigger picture.

My thoughts on the composition are that when I experiment using the LiteBox and dragging the image to the edges of my monitor, I feel a small crop to the right hand side improves the balance of the composition. Bringing it in just enough that where the trees enter the top of frame now, becomes the new corner of the framing.

Just a suggestion, which I hope is useful,
Dave

[Steaphany]

Thanks Dave,

The problem with the Trees on the right is they are in the cloud shadow. The Sun only directly illuminates the trees aspect of the scene from a significant distance from the current right edge. I could have just waited for the clouds to move and shift the lighting, but this seemed to serve my intentions.

I chose to frame the upper right edge to the crest of the Cliff face, where the rock is in direct Sun and allow the upper edge of the Cliff to serve as a leading line to the Dam structure in the distance, taking advantage of the brightness to draw in a viewer's attention.

I also wanted to take advantage of the Brazos River's disturbed water surface, providing an imperfect reflection comprised by the shaded and lit, the trees and cliff rock face.

The Morris Sheppard Dam itself is only a small element in this photo. I could have waded up river to focus on an architectural study of the Dam alone, but the fact that so much of the terrain had to be intentionally carved out to facilitate placement of the Dam is what I thought significant to this scene. That Cliff face is not natural, but constructed.

Something to note is the light blue structure that vertically runs from a white building at the crest of the Cliff down to the top of the Dam's structure about center in this image. This is a service access to the Dam for maintenance. Now, look into the water's reflection, and the light blue service column can clearly be recognized, while all other details are distorted beyond recognition.

Either, I think too much.

Or, you could just chock this up to incomprehensible Rat photo framing.

[Geoff F]

To my way of thinking, if you were to crop the right side you would need to lose the trees completely. Just taking part of them away looks wrong.

If the trees are cropped out it also needs a similar amount from the bottom, which changes the scene and puts more emphasis on the dam.

Also, the cliff face seems a fraction overly bright to me so I would slightly tone that down.