Critique please
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One of my more interesting photos from our recent wooden drift boat gathering. Interested in any critique or comments. Thanks.
After some correction from comments below.
Hi I think it’s a bit light. Did you use a pola filter? That could ad a bit warmer colors and less reflection of the water.
Hi Scott,
I think it’s a great composition, though I agree it’s a touch light.
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Nice shot! If it were mine I would try to do some highlight recovery if it was shot RAW for the bright side of the mens shirts in Aperture, Lightroom or ACR. Darken all the corners to help keep the eye in the picture. Bump the saturation and blacks. Sharpen at output size proof and adjust.
Thanks for the comments, all. I put up a revised version above incorporating suggestions. Enough? More?
I had been shooting in the shadows with 100mm macro, at 800 ISO. When I moved out into the light I got this scene and just in time to get it before the other boat moved and everything changed. So it was shot at 800 ISO. If I had been on my toes, I would have dropped the ISO down and had a better image to work with.
Will, here are some detail shots of my boat:
From the bottom up, outside gunwale, 1/4 sapele ply side panel (5 layer ply), filler block of the transom knee, sheer rail (just visible).
What exactly did you do and what tool did you use? It looks like you just gave it less exposure. Now the reflection on the water is much beter on the right side of the boat. It did not really do the trick for the light on the two men in my opinion. And last but not least the background is really too dark now. In the first picture the bushes underneath the trees were good visible in the second picture there’s only shadow.
Beautiful boat! It’s too bad that all the registration stickers have to go on the side…
As you know the blown out highlights on the shirts are very noticable. You may be able to get away with painting some color back in with Photoshop if you’re good at doing that stuff. I would further darken the upper left corner to keep the viewers eye in the frame. As it is now, that corner is competing with the subject for attention. The subject is centered which isn’t a very dynamic way to compose a shot. Ideally I’d like to see more of where he is casting to and have the subject positioned on the left 3rd. However, the back cast and forward portion of the line balance out the photo nicely so the centered composition isn’t too much of an issue. Seeing the back of the loop would possibly make the shot more interesting depending on whether or not the background would deter from the line.
For one of those split second/quick reaction shots you did a good job. I think it is still salvageable, but not quite there just yet.http://society6.com/grainfarmer Fly Fishing and Landscape open edition Photography prints.
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http://instagram.com/chad_simcox InstagramWhat exactly did you do and what tool did you use?
Nomad, in Lightroom I reduced the highlights and increased the blacks slightly. Don’t know if there is a way to do that selectively in Lightroom. I’ll have to play with it some more in photoshop when I get time.
Thanks, Chad for the note on the corner. I’ll have to work on it some more and post when I’m back at my computer.
Scott you could try to use the adjustment brush in the develop section. Set it to exposure en the amount wich looks best. Zoom in and start painting the shirt.
I once shot a turtle in daylight and everything looked very good exept for the turtle’ s back it was very light. I fixed it the sameway.
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