I took this on vacation while out walking early one morning; the contrast of the dew on the copper with the distant view of the weather vane and the sailboat in the fog really appealed to me. Does it work? I cropped it a little but it's basically as shot. Thanks for looking and comments.
if you could get a little higher to minimize the post with the copper on it, but include the copper, i think it would be a little better. would give you more separation of the elements from that perspective. cool idea, katie!!! love foggy scenes.
Katie I love this image Just needs the little changes suggested by Axel !!! Does seem tight !!
Excellent composition and use of the orange object These images are about mood and you captured it !!! Not sure if you had any leeway for framing by moving around but really good as presented !!! Big Congrats !!!
Hi Katie. This image is very eye catching, worth optomizing and you asked for feedback, sooo, I read all of the comments and attempted to execute them (as I agree with them) plus I cloned out the white bouy to the right of the boat and the two dark spots near the left shoreline. I also applied Shadow/highlight filter on the image to bring the post out a bit. All of the changes could be applied more accurately to the original file, but this works ok. Dan Brown
The biggest problem for me is the perspective distortion (or perhaps or just the way it was constructed) of the wooden object that is in focus. For whatever reason it is not square, and therefore seems out of place with the well defined geometry of the roof and weather vane. As for the ship, keeping the same idea in mind, the mast should be vertical, which would be pretty easy to do. Even the geometric distortion of the wooden object could be fixed by isolating it in an image editing program and using a skew mode. I think an image of this type, that has strong geometric elements, should have a harmony or consistency of those elements (even if it means all elements show geometric distortion). Just something to think about.~onlybill
Thank you all for your comments and critiques and thanks, Dan for the repair/repost---I like it. The post is at the top of some rather steep stairs leading down to a cottage on the beach which I think helps explain the perspective. I only took several vertical shots so I'll need to add canvas as Dan has done and I'll try making the adjustments onlybill suggested. This image still appeals to me and I'd like to salvage it. I knew it wasn't all it could be and that's why I posted it here---where I'd get an "honest but gentle critique" and more!:D
Feedback, please!
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