Evening Tide Greens

[PBC]

Appreciate people's thoughts on this image - what works, what doesn't; why you hate it or love it; etc. 

Phil

[louoates]

Love the overall color and the interesting green stuff growing on the rocks. Not thrilled with the composition. Equal importance of sky, water, and rocks doesn't work for me here. Those elements are too centered for my tastes.

[RSL]

+1

[David Anderson]

Great colour on the rocks & weeds.
I agree about the composition, the horizon is too close to the middle and IMHO the foreground should
be the stronger content.

[shawnino]

I really like the colours and the intensity of the water and sky.

I'm actually of three minds on the composition, specifically the horizon. I actually think the current symmetry works, but I'd like to just-for-fun see if moving the horizon lower or higher drastically changes things... but only because previous posters mention it. Without reading their comments, I doubt I would have thought of it.

[PBC]

Thanks guys.

Normally I avoid a horizon in the middle of a scene, but in this case I felt that there was a degree of balance between the foreground rocks and the sky.

However, to show the difference here is crop of the image which brings the foreground rocks into more prominence  - however to me this removes the sense of balance and place, and just becomes a study of sea-weed covered rocks :-)

Appreciate your thoughts

Phil

[shawnino]

Thanks!
I'm with you--I happen to prefer the original.
But I can appreciate the argument the other way.

[louoates]

I like the cropped version a bit better because it accentuates the way the white in the clouds mirrors the white in the foamy ocean. For me that ties in things nicely.

[Slobodan Blagojevic]

Once you see the whole picture, the crop doesn't cut it anymore (pardon the pun). There is another solution though. Centered horizon works surprisingly well in a square composition.

[owenn01]

Hi Phil,

I think I have to go with the original, uncropped version. Whilst it has that almost central horizon, this is countered by the balance between the movement in the water you have so beautifully captured and the shapes and forms in the sky above it - the more I look the better they mirror each other in fact.

I also like the colours here as well - I never would have thought that these would be complimentary but here they could almost be made for each other.

Both images hang together really well but the first takes the honours for me.

Thanks for sharing and best regards, Neil