Critique Welcomed Yoho Lake, Yoho National Park, B.c. Canada

Nathan Wright

Nathan Wright

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My wife and I camped at Yoho Lake, about a 14km hike from Emerald Lake, B.C. Interestingly enough, despite the scum and villainy at Emerald (hundreds of tourists cram the beautiful landscape), Yoho is quiet and pristine.

We didn't have enough time to do a park tour but next time we will.

Lens: Ultra Wide-Heliar 12mm Voigtlander 5,6 ASPH II
Camera: Fujifilm X-Pro 1

EDIT: critique welcomed. I don't know how to add 'critique welcomed' in the thread's title.
 
You use the drop-down just to the left of the title when you create a thread (I have added it for you).

Even on the X-Pro the 12mm has that distinctive 'sweep' to the edges of the frame - nice. And I love the colours and the angle. However, I find my eye can't settle in the image and I find some conflict between the foreground and the background - both are quite compelling. Maybe darkening the foreground might lead the eye into the picture a bit more. I also wish there was a bit more at the top of the frame (to balance the reflection a bit). Does any of that make sense?
 
It makes perfect sense, and thank you for the tip. Honestly, I couldn't (and still can't) handle the super-wide angle. I use this lens to highlight headphone/speaker shoppes in Tokyo for advertising... thought I could use it for landscape. I cannot handle it! On film I never use wider lenses than 28mm so the equivalent 18mm was crazy. Someday... I hope to be able to balance it. Using your hints, I may be able to.
 
I realised the other day that I have shot wider than 28mm for a very long time! I just don't find I need to ...

I do like this though, I cant really fault the compo my self!
 
It's a great scene and I like the color and overall exposure. I agree with Pete that it feels cropped on the top, and the bright areas reflecting sky in the water are a little distracting to me. This scene has so much vertical sweep and layers of interest to it that I would actually consider doing a vertical with the wide angle. You could also use a little more detail in some of the clouds that are blown out.

The emerald green color of the trees reflected in the lake is fabulous.
 
I agree with Pete. It needs more Sky to add scale to the view. I really like the detail, exposure and the reflections. Also a great destination tip as I prefer tranquillity to tourist throngs.
 
wOw what a beautiful place it seems. Lovely shot.

I don't think using the large rock as a focus point is worthwhile here, possibly move either left/right and expand the capture with using a lot of sky with that wide angle lens.

Keep the lovely green colours of the lake in with the tree reflections, but I'd shoot it with the lake line about a quarter of the way into the image and have the far away tighter trees and mountain range about the middle and boldly show off the lovely clouds/sky a lot more....

Only my tuppence worth input Nathan.
 
that is really really beautiful... I wish I had some majestic mountains :-(
 
Peter McCullough said:
wOw what a beautiful place it seems. Lovely shot.

I don't think using the large rock as a focus point is worthwhile here, possibly move either left/right and expand the capture with using a lot of sky with that wide angle lens.

Keep the lovely green colours of the lake in with the tree reflections, but I'd shoot it with the lake line about a quarter of the way into the image and have the far away tighter trees and mountain range about the middle and boldly show off the lovely clouds/sky a lot more....

Only my tuppence worth input Nathan.
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Thank you, Peter. Funnily enough, I did NOT focus on the rock. That lens simply has infinite DOF, so it looks as if I did. I set it to f/8 or so and focused near the trees on the middle bank. I tried all sorts of things... but that lens is simply so wide that when I pointed it slightly up, everything ran to a weird point in the sky or away from it. I think it would work better in a place SURROUNDED by massive mountains, and not merely one in the frame. I agree with all of your points. I tried to make it work better, but it didn't quite work out! Super wide is completely different to equiv 28mm.
 
Yea a super-wide lens can be hard to control alright, nearly outta control stuff ok, I appreciate the delima with going really wide. I once had a 14mm lens on a full frame and it's so wide ok.

I now shoot with a 21mm lens on full frame and find it so much better, still wide, but not insanely so.


Keep your excellent photo's coming, really enjoying them, thanks!

-peter-
 
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