Being Alone

A couple of shots i took over the weekend.

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Neat. I think the second shot would have been better if he wasn't dead center (left to right, that is). They're also a tad over exposed.

Neat idea!

Thanks,

I was trying not to over-expose it. I guess I should have lowered the ISO a bit.

As for the guy being in the middle, that was merely to express how alone he really was. Most of the other fishermen were up the bank by the river, this guy thought he would be clever and be further out. Thanks for your critique though.

Harm wrote in post #5555581
Thanks,

I was trying not to over-expose it. I guess I should have lowered the ISO a bit.

As for the guy being in the middle, that was merely to express how alone he really was. Most of the other fishermen were up the bank by the river, this guy thought he would be clever and be further out. Thanks for your critique though.

Yes, I like him in the middle. I also appreciate the balance among land, sea, and sky - and there's nothing in any of them.

Great shot.

I like the composition, I just thought the 'rule of 3rd's' might add a little punch to it.

You're profile lists image editing as ok... so I hope you don't mind... but I'd included a quick thought of what I was thinking. I played with the contrast a little and cropped it a little towards what I was thinking. hope you don't mind.

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I have no issues with you amending the image. I never looked at the contrast about it, and I like your composition.

I came up with these versions:

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Here's another view. I prefer him looking into the frame if cropped to rule of thirds.

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LeuceDeuce wrote in post #5562863
Here's another view. I prefer him looking into the frame if cropped to rule of thirds.

Should the crop be short, or long? I kind of like a longer image for this - yet it does remove the guy from being right in the middle (with a little contrasting changes):

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The crop depends. For example... with the shorter crops so there's less beach and less sky... he's the focal point, but you have this "vast water" area... so it shows a lonely fisherman trying to catch something in this huge body of water.

however, if you have much more beach, you emphasize a little more (I think, anyway) that he's really alone on land as well... So instead of just a fisherman looking into the vast waters... you have a very lonely fisherman looking into the vast waters....

so I think cropping out the sky and beach portions should be based on the emotion you want to portray. I think they both work.. but according to the original post, I'm thinking you'd want to keep more beach to emphasize the fisherman's 'aloneness'...

at least.. that's what I 'think' it can portray.

The sign doesn't bother me at all, and you can definately leave it longer. I liked the horizon and waterline on the thirds as well as your fisherman.

I'm not concerned with the clouds as they're not truly dynamic enough to add much (if anything) to the image. Less clouds accentuates the loneliness.

Longer crop, no other processing (sign gets lost keeping the fisherman on the bottom left third):

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Harm wrote in post #5554930
A couple of shots i took over the weekend.

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And I don't think he caught anything all afternoon...

C&C welcome

I like the centered position horizontally. I think it really adds something. I did my own take and cropped a bit of the beach out and added some contrast. But I like the picture. It tells a story.

Oh, and I would have also cloned out the buoy as well, but I was using a light photo editor.

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Thanks for the differing versions. As you've all pointed out, every different crop tells a different story. At least I can get a few different points out with 1 picture.

Unfortunately I don't have photoshop or any funky software, just the basic stuff that usually comes with the camera, so I am limited to just super simple changes - keep more beach or more sky, man in the middle, left or right etc. Plenty to play around with at least.

But I would agree that more beach is needed to show him being alone on land as well as the water - because when I went out there for a stroll, he was away from all the other fisherman - either he smelled bad or knew something others didn't about the fish. But with my time there, he didn't catch anything!!