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First, I’d like to thank all collaborators for the feedback, advices and suggestions.
I’ve attached a (phone) image of this picture printed 11x 14, this is the way I cropped for a customer that wanted this print, clean, with its natural colors. (Sorry it came out sideways).
I feel a bit uncomfortable when somebody else manipulate my images.
For me photography is like cooking: you can take advices to improve your sauce, but you don’t want anybody to put their hands on it. I think the mail point of “The Shark Tank” is to help others improve theirs skill by giving your opinions, otherwise the wheel is turning to a different direction.AGAIN, thanks for your opinion.
Totally agree with you Reiner, I’m a “bracketer” but in this handheld case I was standing in the ocean, yes in the water.
I missed the cance to get a dreamy shot.It wasn’t easy to get to this point.
My first watermark were bigger that the picture itself.
I guess I was OVER confident. Ha!Here’s a version closer to reality.
Brought the whites don to -45, black to -13, shadows up to +45, some green and yellow pitched up and sharpening.
I guess the main problem was the position of the sun at that time along with the fog.
Thank you for your feedback, Julian.
The harsh shadow was intended to create a film noir-like image as the title of this pic is Noir in Colors.
Thank you for the feedback Michael.
Most of my images online have the watermark but not my prints. My customers wouldn’t be too happy about it.I could post it in some other forum, if you have any suggestion.
The easier way to flip a JPEG is by open it with PREVIEW (just a double click will take you there), then go to TOOLS then FLIP HORIZONTAL. Done.
I see what you mean, Joanna.
Originally was leveled but in the post production I rotated it about 30 degrees.
Will put it back to its original angle.Thanks for your feedback.
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I mean the empty sky flatten the image…
With “exactly as intended” you mean the 2/3 of empty sky?… ok…I would crop the image evenly starting from the top left corner to get rid of some of the empty sand, but leaving some breathing space.
Way to much sky, here. I mean empty sky.
This is taking 2/3 of your image and flatting the nice elements that you have in the lower third.Guessing you wanted the fence to be the subject, you should have used a shallow depth of field.
My eyes goes straight to the line on top of the fence and the green pins in the back.
You can also make of this a monochrome image and sharp the fence to bring up the texture.Overall I think it is a nice dreamy/candid shot, but I think the logo is eating the foreground.
A moon within the building could be a nice addition.
Will check how dark is the view from that spot at night.Thanks for your feedback.
The composition is pretty good, but the highlights are hitting on her forehead and left shoulder.
IMO you should have used a fill light on the left side and also try to get more light on her arms and foot, whist is part of your primary composition too.I was just viewing the raw image and could definitely go without the vignetting.
Totally agree that the 5th of the picture is an empty sky, but I couldn’t help since I was shooting with a custom 20mm prime and cropping this image will cost me quality wise.Your feedback will help me improve this week’s re-make of this scene.
Thank you so much.
THe green background really fades the color of the flowers.
I would have chosen a black background to center the attention in the plant.Thank you so much for your opinion @mtrain
I captured this image at the blue hour from a boardwalk that was pitch dark, and added some light to the posts later on and also I added a vignetting, which is probably why it looks even darker.
I could definitely have chosen a different angle.
I shot this one back in April but this week will go back to figure another angle that draw people to the city lights.Thanks again!
I agree with Joanna.
There are so many elements in the image, and everything seems to be background.
If the spot of light was centered/more intense behind the 2 guys standing there, you’ll have a subject.
If your intention was to show the architecture you’d need better light.
Remember that light is like a “finger” pointing to whatever you want to be seen.IMO this image has lost its contest (if there’s any) due to the non-stabilized camera and also the lens used.
This is still far from a landscape standard and let me explain why:
You have taken this image at (or around) 10mm, what really distorted over 60% of the image.
The image is blown by the ISO.
I’m guessing that you shoot at this time with no tripod… not even being a sniper you’ll get a clean shot.
Use a remote to avoid camera shaking during exposition.
