Fantastic colours John.
#1 - the sun is really bright compared to the remainder of the image. Can you tone this down a little?
#2 - beat colours
#3 - love the reflection of the clouds. Would have liked to see more on the dinghy in the foreground.
#4 - again love the reflection. The boat looks slightly overblown to me. In particular the bow.
#1 I agree, have tried to tone it down without much success. Will try again.
#2 Thank you, I was about to leave this location as there wasn't much happening in the sky. Decided to wait another 5 minutes, glad I did.
#3 I have another shot with a bit more of the dinghy, I'll put it up later.
#4 I agree, will have another play at trying to tone down the blown out areas.
I like the inclusion of the dinghys but also agree with Brad that one would be better than two.
This is a really nice image though. Even with the limited light.
My comment wasn’t intended to detract from the image, as I really like it. But what I was trying to say, is if there was only the LH dinghy, your eyes would be led up through the image by the leading lines to the wonderful colours of the sky and reflection. I find with the 2 dinghies, my attention seems to get stuck in the middle water between them, and I have to intentionally look up at the colours.
I know you can’t go back and reshoot the image, and I definitely wouldn’t recommend moving someone’s boat to take the image. Just trying to get some discussion going about composition, as it’s an area that I am trying to improve in, and learn more about.
This video is aimed at bird photography, but a lot of what he says applies to other aspects of photography.
If you don't want to watch the whole video FF to 3:05.
I've preached that concept for a long time John and it's good to see I am not the only one who thinks it's a good practice. Cheers and thanks for the link.
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