Herbert Lake Redux - a photo on Flickriver

Herbert Lake Redux

            Here's an old photo that I somehow never got around to editing and sharing on social media.

I captured this shortly before sunset in October 2013... at Herbert Lake in Canada's Banff National Park.

If it looks like those two logs in the foreground were carefully arranged to lead your eyes into the photo and towards my primary subject... they were indeed.

Not only did I deliberately include them like this in my composition... but I also dragged them out of the forest behind me... and then placed them in the water .

I felt that a photo with some logs in the foreground would look much better than a photo without logs. So was I cheating?

I can often spend many minutes removing stray twigs and fallen branches from my forest compositions before I press the shutter. Is this also cheating?

Should rearranging nature before taking a photo of it ever be deemed more acceptable than using the clone brush to remove those distractions afterwards?

I think that both are perfectly acceptable. But I wouldn't mind hearing what my other photographer-friends think? 

P.S. No clone-brush or transform tools were used in the making of this photograph. ;)

Taken on: October 10, 2013

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Paul Bruins Photography

www.paulbruins.co.za

Banff National Park

Lake Herbert

Sunset

Nikon D800

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Camera: Nikon D800, f/13.0, 1/40 sec, 14mm, ISO 100 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Nikon D800
Lens:	14.0-24.0 mm f/2.8
Aperture:	f/13.0
Exposure Time:	0.025 sec (1/40)
Focal Length:	14mm
ISO:	100
Exposure Bias:	0 EV
Flash:	Off, Did not fire
Exposure Program:	Manual
Exposure Mode:	Manual
Metering Mode:	Multi-segment
White Balance:	Auto
Contrast:	High
Sharpness:	Hard
Color Space:	sRGB
Software:	Adobe Photoshop CS5.1 Windows
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