Scenic

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=Scenic=

// River Twilight //
__Tags__: river, fishing, wade fishing, Arkansas, trout, trees, evening, sunset, crepuscule

__Critique Comments__: In terms of communicating the concept of "scenic," this photograph works well. I sought to frame the shot using the vegetation in the foreground, and also was lucky to have two wade-fisherpeople in the river to give the viewer something to focus on.

Compositionally, I like how this turned out, and I ended up cropping out a bit of darkened foreground vegetation. I like the shape of the result (looking at the lighted areas, do you see the profile of a fish?). I was a little disappointed in the placement of the cloud in the upper middle region, because I think it steals some of the branch's impact. However, the natural world does not pose for us, and despite my compositional preferences, I like this arrangement a lot.

Focally, I believe this shot could have been improved with the use of my tripod, which I felt I couldn't spare the 5 minutes to go and get (twilight is so fleeting). I shot this on a shutter-priority setting with a shutter speed of 1/25, aperture of f/14, and ISO setting of 800. I was playing around with the settings (going up and down on the shutter and ISO), and I feel like this was the best result out of this series.

The depth of field works all right. There's enough focus on the foreground framing vegetation as well as on the fisherpeople (who are a little blurrier) to know what this is a picture of. I think that the shot could have been improved with a wider depth of field.

I like the title and tags.