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The Art of Photography => User Critiques => Topic started by: Jeremy Roussak on April 21, 2014, 02:44:31 pm

Title: sur surf
Post by: Jeremy Roussak on April 21, 2014, 02:44:31 pm
Thoughts?

Jeremy
Title: Re: sur surf
Post by: Slobodan Blagojevic on April 21, 2014, 04:15:01 pm
It is a lovely moment, well seen and captured, and a nice, pastel tonality. Perhaps a bit over-sharpened?

I played around with cropping (gasp!) and I think that reducing it to a 3:1 panoramic format, excluding the top sky and bottom waves (but one), would reduce it to its essential elements: the figure, sail, wave and sky, and make it a much tighter, stronger compositionally. There you go, a thought :)
Title: Re: sur surf
Post by: RSL on April 21, 2014, 04:24:04 pm
As you can guess, I emphatically disagree! It's just dandy as is. Good catch, Jeremy.
Title: Re: sur surf
Post by: francois on April 22, 2014, 06:24:07 am
I like it with this surfer as a silhouette and the colored kite.
Title: Re: sur surf
Post by: Jeremy Roussak on April 22, 2014, 02:56:34 pm
It is a lovely moment, well seen and captured, and a nice, pastel tonality. Perhaps a bit over-sharpened?

I played around with cropping (gasp!) and I think that reducing it to a 3:1 panoramic format, excluding the top sky and bottom waves (but one), would reduce it to its essential elements: the figure, sail, wave and sky, and make it a much tighter, stronger compositionally. There you go, a thought :)

I agree the jpeg I've posted here could be a little over-sharpened, but I think it's an artefact of the downsizing in LR: at full size, it looks fine.

And thanks for the thought: just what I'd asked for! I'll see what it looks like, but I wouldn't like to enrage Russ...

Jeremy
Title: Re: sur surf
Post by: Eric Myrvaagnes on April 22, 2014, 06:28:35 pm
And thanks for the thought: just what I'd asked for! I'll see what it looks like, but I wouldn't like to enrage Russ...

Jeremy
Just try it and show it to the rest of us, but not to Russ.   ;)

It's a fine shot either way.
Title: Re: sur surf
Post by: RSL on April 22, 2014, 07:52:58 pm
Don't you dare, Jeremy! The picture needs the sky and the sea. The isolation of the guy in those elements is what makes the picture.