Keeping it simple

[tegan]

Hi Tegan,

Problems are so subjective and often the photographer sees problems in their own shots when others see no problems. I guess if I was searching for problems, I'd say it's the lack of detail in the background...

However MOST decent photos can be made stronger with some photoshopping. In this case, severe cropping would make this a very strong shot. If you were to turn this landscape into a portrait by cropping 40% on the left side, the photograph takes on a new and stronger dimension.

Just a thought,

Marko



Well, not all shots work out exactly the way you want and in this case I was shooting in very heavy fog. Can you spot the problems? :)

Tegan

[tegan]

[QUOTE=tegan]Hi Tegan,

Problems are so subjective and often the photographer sees problems in their own shots when others see no problems. I guess if I was searching for problems, I'd say it's the lack of detail in the background...

However MOST decent photos can be made stronger with some photoshopping. In this case, severe cropping would make this a very strong shot. If you were to turn this landscape into a portrait by cropping 40% on the left side, the photograph takes on a new and stronger dimension.

Just a thought,

Marko

I think you just proved that problems are not really that subjective after all.
You are absolutely correct. It would be stronger as a portrait.

Heavy fog also makes a less than excellent background and the problem here is the lighthouse colour is so close to the fog colour that it won't be easy to separate the two, in order to photoshop in a blue sky, but I will give it a try.

It would be better for composition, if the gull were slightly higher, with the sky, not the rock behind the bottom part of it, but that is not very controllable.

The problem that you did not mention is that the gull particularly is a little soft. Either the depth of field did not quite cover it, or the fog interfered. Some attempted photoshop sharpening caused artifacts, so I left it mostly alone.

The commercial value of it, as it is, by the way, is that the lack of background is perfect for text use or as part of a collage.

Tegan