windy weather

[Jeremy Roussak]

Comments?

Jeremy

[luxborealis]

Given this is User a Critique, I'll break the reticence I wrote about in your "receding storm" post, Jetemy, to say...

Great rocks, great waves, but the key elements (rocks & boat) are too central and there is no horizon to give it that added three dimensionality. Also, I feel like an observer, not a participant, as everything seems so far away.

[Jeremy Roussak]

Great rocks, great waves, but the key elements (rocks & boat) are too central and there is no horizon to give it that added three dimensionality. Also, I feel like an observer, not a participant, as everything seems so far away.

Fair points, Terry. I can't get closer, but I can alter the framing: I'd actually removed the small amount of sky I'd captured. How about this crop, then?

Jeremy

[luxborealis]

It's better. Clone out the distracting bird in the sky and add -5 or -10 of Post-Crop Vignetting to help contain the viewer's eye.

But take a moment as well to ask yourself what your goal is for this image (and others): is it to achieve "one for the wall" or a recording/documenting a moment in time and place. If it's the former than a re-shoot is probably necessary introducing some three-dimensionality. If it' she latter than you're just about there.

[Jeremy Roussak]

It's better. Clone out the distracting bird in the sky and add -5 or -10 of Post-Crop Vignetting to help contain the viewer's eye.

But take a moment as well to ask yourself what your goal is for this image (and others): is it to achieve "one for the wall" or a recording/documenting a moment in time and place. If it's the former than a re-shoot is probably necessary introducing some three-dimensionality. If it' she latter than you're just about there.

I always have my walls in mind when I'm shooting! I think on reflection that you're probably right: this one simply doesn't make it. I'll content myself with documentation.

Jeremy