WHALES PLEASE CRITIQUE

I am considering printing this image of some whales I photographed during a recent trip to Alaska. It was an overcast rainy day. Any and all critique is appreciated. Thank you.

Nice shot, I think I'm addicted to whale photography and whale watching myself. Typically I would say get a tighter crop on the whales themselves but that might be an uninteresting shot. I like that you included he background elements but they are rather indistinguishable with the fog and overall gray of the photo. Not much you can do about the weather. I might try a crop where the horizon is more in the center of the photo if you have room to move out. Otherwise you just have to live with what the whales gave you that day, which is still a very good shot.

The trouble is that it does not tell you anything about the whale with so little of it being visible. Print it if that is all you have from the outing and you want a visible memory.

If the basic image quality permits, do something that shows primarily the flukes. Something like shown which isn't great but the result of 30 seconds of effort on improving the composition.

I think you could make the picture more interesting, e.g. by making the picture colder, put a highlight on the whale and make the rest of the picture more opaque/mysterious.

OT: I am a kind of confused - is it o.k. to edit the picture? In the good old early times there was a little label 'image editing o.k.' - but I can not find that anymore. Did that disappear from AMASS?

I actually love the mysteriousness of this photo!