Rhossili Wreck - critique please
This is a realy good image, the odd thing is because I am used to Photoshop it looks as if it is slightly oversharpened, or just to sharp?. I think the house adds a usefull sence of perspective, anyway I would be very pleased to have taken this. Well done.
Davex.
Dave - not been sharpened, but it will probably look less sharp when printed.
1-1 for and against the house
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In fact, I think it's a great picture. My only (very) slight criticism is that it seems a bit too wide in relation to the height.
But that's a quibble.
G
First, I find the way the high land ends abruptly on one side of the large piece of timber(?) sticking up, with nothing emerging at the other side apart from distant shore and cloud, detracts slightly from the shot. Nothing you could have done about this without spoiling your composition, of course, but optically I find it odd.
Second, and this is more a reflection than a critique of this shot... The sky is very moody. Have you selectively worked on this to get the contrast out? If so, you've done a good job, not overdoing it. Though I wonder if it would be OTT if the picture was in colour? I'm kind of tired of these dramatic, enhanced (almost HDR) skies in landscape shots. Are they becoming a photo-cliche - the aerial, background equivalent of the misty water (through long exposure) in the foreground (not referring to your water here by the way)?
Re. the house, as this is a record of place and it's an integral part of this place, I wouldn't clone it out.
Jack - I would be interested in exactly what you did, as you seem to have bought out more detail in the wood.
George - The full size image is a lot wider and taller, and I may re-crop.
Dr Mhuni - I see what you mean about the land abruptly stopping. The light on the day was rather flat on the day, and all I did in the sky was bring in a 2nd darker RAW exposure for the sky into PS, and then spent 1 hour hiding the join as I got a bit of a bright line where the 2 exposures joined, and then emphasised the sky in the mono conversion.
I agree that in colour it would bt over the top.
Also prints always look a bit flatter than digital images.
Davex - I may do some 'false' depth of field to blur the background a bit, I shall see what I think.
The house - well I may have to flip a coin
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I would work on the reflection of the sky, though, as after working on the sky the reflection now is much lighter than the sky itself.
Also there is a slight halo around some of the timbers.
Prieni
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The house doesn't bother me. It adds a sense of scale at least!
My only criticism would be the noticeable halo around the large timber which Prieni mentioned. I would try to get rid of it. I get these stupid halos all the time after reducing highlights. I haven't figured out what to do about them other than selecting the sky around the halo-ed object and cloning it out.
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Hi All, I'm looking for comments and ways to improve this image.
e.g. would you clone out the house on the hillside? and what about general tone.
I will be cleaning up all the light pebbles on the beach
This will be printed for an open camera club competition.
Thanks in advance.
hi dear
relay very nice image
like it
ok thanks
Jack has done sth interesting, but I start to wonder, what it is....and I am not interested in the photo itself (entirety, composition) any more.
I wouldn't go that way.
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e.g. would you clone out the house on the hillside? and what about general tone.
I will be cleaning up all the light pebbles on the beach
This will be printed for an open camera club competition.
Thanks in advance.
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