Lake Cathie

[frg]

Lake Cathie - about 30 minutes south of Port Macquarie ,NSW Australia
Not really sure about the sepia treatment.... tell me what you think!
http://www.francis.smugmug.com/photos/130651503-L-1.jpg

[rorytate]

Outstanding in every respect. There's real emotion in this photo - a melancholy and de ja vue. The sepia totally works. Wish I'd taken it.

Rory Tate
Canadian, Okla.

[DavidS]

Outstanding in every respect. There's real emotion in this photo - a melancholy and de ja vue. The sepia totally works. Wish I'd taken it.

Rory Tate
Canadian, Okla.

I agree. This really evokes emotion.

[frg]

Thanks, very much appreciate the feedback.....

[David_S85]

Beautiful subject and compo. Not as sure as others about the toning. What does it look like in color?

[frg]

Beautiful subject and compo. Not as sure as others about the toning. What does it look like in color?

Heres he color version
http://francis.smugmug.com/photos/131152268-M.jpg

[David_S85]

Heres he color version


Good scene either way.

[mereimage]

I think I prefer B&W to sepia for landscape unless one is trying to evoke nostalgia for a familiar old place. The subject seems to be the sky and the play of light in the clouds. I think cropping the lower water and dropping the horizon from the middle of the frame would help. Steeping the curve to separate the tones in the clouds and to add a bit more drama would help:

http://www.mereimage.smugmug.com/photos/131335737-L.jpg

This is just my take on it(hard to get more detail and tonal range in a ......
800k image).......... and you probably like it the way you took it which I understand.
Mereimage