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The Art of Photography => User Critiques => Topic started by: Michael West on May 25, 2009, 01:32:16 am

Title: Marooned Boat Scape
Post by: Michael West on May 25, 2009, 01:32:16 am
My first 'submission".
Title: Marooned Boat Scape
Post by: Jeremy Roussak on May 25, 2009, 03:56:57 am
Quote from: Michael West
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
Title: Marooned Boat Scape
Post by: Michael West on May 25, 2009, 10:22:36 am
Quote from: kikashi
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
Title: Marooned Boat Scape
Post by: RSL on May 25, 2009, 10:56:33 am
Quote from: kikashi
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.
Title: Marooned Boat Scape
Post by: John R on May 26, 2009, 01:11:03 am
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
Title: Marooned Boat Scape
Post by: Jim Pascoe on May 26, 2009, 04:58:48 am
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
Title: Marooned Boat Scape
Post by: wolfnowl on May 26, 2009, 05:40:29 pm
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.
Title: Marooned Boat Scape
Post by: dalethorn on May 26, 2009, 05:52:02 pm
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.
Title: Marooned Boat Scape
Post by: Michael West on May 26, 2009, 07:56:34 pm
Quote from: dalethorn
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.
Title: Marooned Boat Scape
Post by: peteh on May 27, 2009, 02:26:20 am
Taken at Tomales Bay ?
Title: Marooned Boat Scape
Post by: Michael West on May 27, 2009, 12:08:37 pm
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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