Simple Boat

[JB Ellis]

I though this boat looked nice but felt like the shot needed to be just the boat and the water, nothing else. What do you think?

[David Thomasson]

I though this boat looked nice but felt like the shot needed to be just the boat and the water, nothing else. What do you think?

I think you're exactly right. I like it very much. Pleasing composition.

[Dave Mills]

Hi JB, I have many shots like that and find that simpler very often can be best and most powerful.

[Stuart Frohm]

This is classic. Well seen. Well captured. Thanks for posting it.

[Hazel Grant]

I also love it in its simplicity, but also that the boat is not centered vertically. Gives it somewhere to go. Centered would IMHO lend the shot to be more of a like-all-the-others stock look. Great shot

[Dennis "Curly" Buchner]

Awesome composition, thanks for sharing

[Robert Amoruso]

Works perfect JB. A very sellable image too.

[Paul Marcellini]

Really nice comp and mood to this. I might pop the colors a touch and even raise exposure a hair. I threw it in cs3 and did auto levels just to see, this is what I got. YOu also need to work on the cloning on the right of the boat. Otherwise, wonderful image.

[Fabs Forns]

Simplicity at its best. I like the colors in the repost.

[Robert Amoruso]

Can definitely see the difference in Paul's repost JB. I have been posting in the mornings from a laptop and not really seeing the tonal quality of the images. I like what Paul did and would have suggested that myself.

[Roman Kurywczak]

Hey JB,
Sweet!.....the simplicity is very effective. A classic! I actually like both versions....as darker original.....appeals to me......but sometimes...the softer re-post.....works too. A winner either way!

[Bryan Hix]

JB, I love the simplicity and I also like the re-post better. Do you have you EXIF info as well? Just curious to see it. Thx.

[JB Ellis]

Bryan, the details are Canon 20d, f8, ISO 800, 1/400. These are not my ideal choices, just where the camera was set. I think ISO 100 and a corresponding slower shutter speed might have been better, but since I was handholding, there might have been some shake. Didn't expect much, only took a couple of images, then when I got home this turned out to be one of my favorites from the outing. Isn't that how it always happens? Hope this helps.

[Bryan Hix]

Thanks JB, that does help. Just curious. I really like the image. For me, it's a wall-hanger! :)

[Richard Lovison]

I like the mood of the image as presented along with the composition. Maybe a tad more contrast and a bit of cleanup. It looks like it was captured during the "magic hour" that seems to be the craze and the auto levels just turned it into a 12 noon daylight shot.