In the early part of the 1900s five Massachusetts towns were flooded and the residents moved to other places in order to create a water supply for the City of Boston. The Quabbin is only fringed with snow at this time and the water is natural color.
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Hi,
From a compositional stand point I see several problems. First off the right side of the photo leaves the viewer with a feeling of emptyness. There is nothing there. We have know way of knowing what is there. Are there trees, rocks, snow or does the world come to and end ?.
A piece of land jutting out, a building or a damn would have helped tremendously here. The sky is absolutly usless here there is nothing that has any benefit to the photo at all. I would have cropped it down to about 1/2 to 1" of the mountain tops giving it a more panoramic look. The expanse of water is missing something also, maybe a boat or water fowl giving the photo a sense of depth would have been a great help. The lower third of the photo needs something to give the entire photo some sort of scale the weeds do little here a tree in the lower left hand corner would have been nice. Over all it looks like the photographer here tried to do to much with the equipment he or she had on hand. My advice, Learn the limitations of your equipment and stay within them.
Nice shot but the blue seems a little too primary. I like the inclusion of the weeds, and perhaps that mountain in the back needs a bit more definition/ needs to be darker.
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