I've been up to the Canadian Rockies a number of times (including a few winter trips there), but I've had almost uniformly bad luck when it comes to weather and light. Every now and then, however, a get favorable conditions, such as when I made this photo. I waded into the stream to incorporate the rapids as a foreground element. I dropped my ISO and used a small aperture to lengthen my exposure time to creatively blur the rushing water. Canon 1DXII, Canon 11-24mm lens, ISO 50, f/16, 0.3 seconds.
....a perfect example of an Ian Plant wide angle composition.....amazing..
Funny thing is I don't really like this composition all that much. I took this several years ago and it never saw the light of day. I was digging through some old raw files yesterday when I stumbled across this, decided to give it a second look. I feel like it almost came together, but not quite - something feels a bit unbalanced about the composition, I'm not sure if I can put my finger on it. I think maybe the rapids needed to be bigger, the bright clouds on the right tend to lead the eye out of the composition, and I don't like the dark mass of trees on the left. I don't know, something about this just never felt right to me!.
@Ian Plant I want everyone to know that I pretty much ignore Ian when he says dumb stuff like this. While it’s easy to get swept up with lines, because they are so large and obvious, less noticeable are an amazing series of triangles beginning with the foreground rapids, the sky in the upper right, the left sky along with the dastardly trees, and the mountain itself. Getting back to those really obvious lines, the image almost (but not quite) makes a big, giant X coming directly out of each corner. The only thing this composition is missing is a naked model - you guessed it -right at the middle of the X (you pick the gender).
Wonderful!
Thanks Alicia!