Forum: Photography


Subject: Constructive Critique for 3-12-07

bclaytonphoto opened this issue on Mar 12, 2007 ยท 23 posts


girsempa posted Tue, 13 March 2007 at 9:43 AM

It's a beautiful happy scene with some good attention points. In particular, I like the parallel between the row of houses and the row of boats. That's a very strong and graphical focus point, and it makes for a very nice composition. So, in order to make this the main subject or attention point of the image (because every image needs a main attention point), I think you have to give up some things that are distracting in the view. There are four main things that I find not suitable for the final image: the gull on the left, the wall corner on the right, the boat with the man and actually the whole empty foreground in the middle. Luckily, you don't have to clone anything out; just a good crop will do. Furthermore, it seems like a nice sunlit scene, that deserves a bit of a warmer and sunnier color temperature. As it is, the dominating blue and white colors make it look rather cold. So I would adjust the colors with a touch of a warm orange filter, and make it a bit darker, so that the warm and sunny whites become more pronounced. That's about it... thanks for sharing and starting off this feature..! Geert


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