Well, It's not actually a River, it's a lake.
...and it's not all that deep either. About 3 feet at the deepest point I think.
But calling it "lake shallow" sounded pretty lame : )
Not a whole lot of editing done
Changed to B/W with channel mixer
Hue/sat and selective colour layers under the channel mixer layer to tweek the tones.
levels
curves
a little dodge and burn
a little USM
oh, originally it was portrait but I cropped the bottom 1/3 to make it a square crop when I decided to enter in the Free Study.
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Again, this is so underrated, but yet, there were some excellent images in this challenge. I love this strong black and white image, so very much. I wonder if it would have done better as a landscape format, re cropping, to take away some of the darkness of the bottom. It doesn't bother me as I love square crops and love this image just the way it is.
VERY well seen and captured. A stunning photo! I really enjoy the perspective on this as you made a great choice to show as much water/reflection as you have. B/W suits this quite well also. Have I mentioned yet that I like this? :D Take care.
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