Brian, I very much like the idea, technical part (the exposure, the silhouette appearance, etc.), but something in the overall image doesn't quite work for me.
First, I thought it was the large gap between two interesting parts: the ship and the clouds. I remember having a similar reaction to one of the pictures posted here several year ago (I don't remember who did it, may be Godfrey?), that also had something high at the sky, and something at the very bottom, I believe, also right on the water. I was thinking if reducing that gap would have helped that, - probably not. Cutting out the clouds completely would not help either, - you need something at the top to complete the picture. It might be that the low profile of the ship is responsible for that impression. So, that part is relative to the overall dark area. So, I just tried to do the following cropping (using just the browser window to obscure the rest): about half of the black area from the bottom, about half of the darkest portion of the clouds from the top, and probably nothing from the sides. That seems to work better for me. There is one more component that didn't quite work for me: the combination of the black background and the white border. So, even without doing the cropping, getting rid of the white border and black background helps (even thought I like and use this combination myself very often). I'd choose a light off-white, maybe light-light-light grey/bluish overall background for this photo. I hope you don't mind me "butchering" your nice photo. :-) Igor Wed Oct 19 08:14:34 EDT 2011 Brian Walters wrote: > I spent a couple of days at an old lighthouse keeper's cottage last > week > and got up early one morning to catch the sunrise. I was a bit late - > the sun had cleared the horizon before I got outside. I managed to get > this shot of one of the many bulk carriers anchored offshore. > > > http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1370864/PESO/slides/_IGP3239a-peso.html > > > Comments and suggestions appreciated. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
