Luminous Landscape Forum
The Art of Photography => User Critiques => Topic started by: Michael West on May 25, 2009, 01:32:16 am
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My first 'submission".
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My first 'submission".
Excellent. I'm tempted to crop it just a little at the left, to remove the pier in the distance. I think it looks better if the left side is empty.
Jeremy
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Excellent. I'm tempted to crop it just a little at the left, to remove the pier in the distance. I think it looks better if the left side is empty.
Jeremy
I agree and A tiny bit of cloning saved the frame while removing the pier
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Excellent. I'm tempted to crop it just a little at the left, to remove the pier in the distance. I think it looks better if the left side is empty.
Jeremy
No! It's an interesting exercise to bring both versions up at once and put them side by side on your screen. It's a matter of opinion, and both versions are good, but I like the one with the pier still in it. The pier ties the cast-off boat to its life as an active, useful artifact. I'd say that, as usual, the first take on the scene was the right one. When you're shooting photographs like this one intuition is a lot more useful than analysis.
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It's a lovely image either way, and the modified version looks a touch more contrasty to my eye. I like it better, but mostly for the slightly increased contrast.
JMR
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It is a good picture. Quite a sad one though. I find the boat a little tight in the frame, and think maybe a bit more space around it would have given a sense of solitude. I agree that the pier in the distance is worth keeping in.
Jim
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One more opinion in that I prefer it without the pier, but I agree with Jim that it seems a little tight in the frame. Excellent work, though.
Mike.
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It's odd how there seems to be two types of beach - one covered by grass and one bare, with the boat sitting exactly at the end of the grassy part.
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It's odd how there seems to be two types of beach - one covered by grass and one bare, with the boat sitting exactly at the end of the grassy part.
The boat itself has become a part of the sandbar. Although ive not been there at high tide I imagine that the sand beyond the boat [ on our "right" is regularly submerged by the bay waters.
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Taken at Tomales Bay ?
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Taken at Tomales Bay ?
Yes Indeed, directly behind the grocery store at Inverness. The location at which the movie "The Fog" was shot