Hi guys, want to share my first picture in this community.
I took this picture around the beach closed to my home. It was around 5:30 AM and almost raining but there was still clear sky to let the light burst out to the cloud. I edited this picture using Lightroom and Photoshop to remove small part of rock formation near the horizon line.
Appreciate if I could get any feedback of the composition or its color.
Overall a pleasing image to me, perhaps a half stop too dark in the foreground. My issue is that I used to see this type of image so many times from several IG "landscape" hubs, i unfollowed them. lol.
thanks for your feedback Ryan.. I took a note for giving bit more exposure to the foreground for picture like this. to be honest I was also following lots of existing pictures like this in IG lol was thinking that taking similar picture like the others may help me to understand how the set their camera to get correct exposure :D
Hi Teten. Nice picture with a nice mood, light and interesting object. I agree with previous opinion to make it a lit bit more lighter. Also boat in the scene is a main object, so it will be great to make some dodge and burn adjustments to make boat look more expressive!
Nik
many thanks for your feedback Nik. so, I tried to give more light to the boat using lightroom with brush tool, but the result was not quite good. as it started to introduce some noises. I'll try to find a best way to do that - found tutorial using photoshop but I haven't had a chance to give that a try
First: Image is too dark as others have mentioned Second: The image would have been better from a fisherman's point of view.. walking out of his house down to the boat only to see that the boat has over turn on it's side thus no fishing today.. so he decides to take a picture of the sunrise instead.. Visualize the story and then assign the images to tell the story. Third: There should have some landmass at the bottom or more towards the bottom left side as the boat could have been resting there.
many thanks for your suggestion. will definitely give that a try and will post the result again here. hope that the tide will be low enough this weekend lol
Follow Up: Ideally, the boat should have been on the right not the left as the bright area would have been more exposed as the boats, seat/frame rails would have highlighted the dark area to the right. B+
Love the picture Teten, the overall image is nicely composed. I think like most people we agree it needs to be lighter to show more detail and depth!
many thanks Justin. do you notice that there're lots of seaweed almost all over the water? just wondering if it's just distracting viewer eyes from the main object or those are still acceptable
I do notice the seaweed however the reflection from the water along with the boat is very strong. I think the attention of viewers will not be distracted by the seaweed.
noted. I really need to tray again taking this picture one day and make the exposure of my main object right lol. really appreciate your feedback
Personally, I think it's great the way it is. If you hadn't asked for feedback, I think there might be only praise. Certainly more detail & depth is a good thing, but if your intent was to obscure some shadows, I don't think it would make the picture less gripping.
many thanks for your feedback James. happy that there're lots of supportive photographers here. by the way, by reading this, seems like caption also has pretty important role in a picture