As always, I don't have time or patience to wait out. The big ship was getting ready for being pulled by smaller (actually quite tiny) tugboats, as it was going in for landing:-).
I entirely admit that I was fascinated by the contrast of the weather and human activity, and of course the light and the city. This is the location that I very often go to when I chance to be in Haifa. Certainly, if you were to come, I'd take you there too. Boris On Tue, Feb 16, 2016 at 1:01 AM, Larry Colen <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Boris Liberman wrote: >> >> Larry, this is quite interesting what you say... >> >> 1. I deliberately did not max out the contrast, so at to keep all (both >> dark and bright) areas of the frame within limits and to prevent >> saturation. According to my LightRoom, I have minimal dark saturation >> (bottom left) and no bright saturation whatsoever... > > > Perhaps using the adjustment brush on the clouds, as well as tweaking the > high end of the curves. > >> >> 2. I see your point about different crop. I was really attracted by the >> bright clouds just on to of the towns across the bay and I thought that >> although the top half and bottom half of the frame could be considered >> as separate pictures, they kind of play together. Again, not arguing, >> merely trying to *voice* my reasoning. > > > I definitely see what you're doing. Another crop might be most of the city > at the bottom of the frame, leaving enough to frame the bay. > > It's a nice image, and I like what you're trying to do. It would have been > nice if the skipper of the ship had come in on a more photogenic path, but > they tend to be inconsiderate like that. > > My gut feeling is that it could be a better image if you're willing to > sacrifice a little bit of the good, to concentrate on what is great about > it. > >> >> Boris >> >> On 2/14/2016 20:48, Larry Colen wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>> Boris Liberman wrote: >>>> >>>> That day the weather in Haifa was very photogenic... >>>> >>>> http://pentax-ways.blogspot.com/2016/02/2016-05-haifa-bay.html >>>> >>>> Be brutal and honest :-). >>> >>> >>> In general, I like it. It works well, as Dan said, in black and white. >>> I have two niggles with it. The first one is that the bright clouds >>> look a bit blown out. The other is that with the ship centered on the >>> left side the composition feels a bit "off". I realize that both the >>> clouds and the city at the bottom are part of what you were aiming to >>> get in the photo, but another crop, without so much of the clouds at >>> the top might work better. >>> >>>> >>> >> >> > > -- > Larry Colen [email protected] (postbox on min4est) http://red4est.com/lrc > > > > -- > 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. -- Boris -- 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.
