I voted this pretty high, as I thought the rotation was intentional. It is a much better picture in the submitted aspect than it was when I straightened it out! This sort of focusing on the forms and shapes, rather than the actual things they 'are' is really interesting to me just now. Turning it on its side like this makes the sky, lake, trees all irrelevent and focuses on the shapes.
Raspii, I simply did not understand the purpose in the rotation. Creative as it may be, I just asked myself why and couldn't come up with an answer... It's still a nice shot :)
Wow! I'm glad to see a very bold creative move that didn't get shot down! Sure, it could have placed higher, but it made top 50 which is top 20% in this case. And you didn't even end up with a more than normal number of 1-4s. That must be very gratifying. Good work.
For those of you (probably not the ones reading this) who doubted or scored me lower because of it, the rotation was indeed intentional. While I lost some points for doing it, I gained more than I lost. Thanks to all who took the time to see and understand.
Initial=cool abstract Composition=would almost be convincing if the sky was as grey as the water Clarity (focus, details)=hard for me to tell if you intended for this to be soft or not Exposure=fair Interesting or Emotive=interesting in the horizontal if that is what you intended.
I am using a this new detailed commenting method inspired by autool. (Thanks autool!). I hope you find it more helpful than my former comments. Thanks for submitting, and good luck! ;0)
I like the rotation - makes it more abstract and less like a typical pretty but low impact scenery photo. Nice colours. Sky looks very very white. Kavey
I am assuming that this is in the correct position. I really like the kaleidescope effect you made by rotating this. It would have been a fine photo on its own but I believe it is better this way. Good job. DPz
I'm sure you'll get many people saying it should be portrait rather than landsape, but I like it this way. It's like one of those psychology ink-blot things!
It looks like a grizzly bear with a mustache...I love it. It took a lot of guts for you to rotate it and submit it like this...I submitted my photo upside down...I hope others see the creativity as well as a great shot... 10 - zadore
wow, this looks really neat. when i first saw it i thought why isn't this turned right side up, but the more i look at it the more i really like the symmetry of it this way. great job.
Did you forget to orient your pic? It's kinda hard to view sideways. I like the color, but the blown out sky is really harsh. The only suggestion I think I could make would be, crop out the sky and display in landscape. The reflection up to the shoreline would have worked great for me, or maybe just a little above it. (Tried "hand cropping, seems much better!) 6 Swash
The angle totally took me by surprise. People will either love it, or they'll hate it. Personally, I love the fractal like pattern you have framed here; this is just surreal… I keep looking and I keep thinking, yup this is great… (10)
Wow... this is a great shot! It took me a minute to figure out that I needed to turn my head sideways :) Did you intend to post it 90 degrees to the left? :) I'll comment on it as if you did... The symetry is awesome. The entire shoreline is reflecting, so you a perfect replica. The reflection is clear and obvious, great DOF - everything seems to be in focus.. Beautiful colors... Well worth a 10 - JB
very nice reflection. did you submit it sideways on purpose? perhaps to make the viewer guess the orientation? perhaps to make us appreciate the shapes of the picture? Well anyways, it has great color. The only thing thŒt really bothers me is the overexposed sky, but that's a toughie to fix. You could wait around until the sky darkens, but who has that kind of time?
Wow. Excellent choice. I'm not even tempted to turn my head sideways and see the real image. Your decision here really turned a run of the mill landscape shot into an evocative study in form and negative space. I can make out a face in the image (in the way that children make images in clouds...) Well done. 9, just-married
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