Ferry and pleasure boat

Hi all it is about time I posted up some picture so I'll start wiht just one of critique.

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match14 wrote in post #10773375
Hi all it is about time I posted up some picture so I'll start wiht just one of critique.

You may want to try posting the image again - It is not showing up here and following your IMG link in your post produces this message:

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I like the pastel shades in the sky, it gives the photograph a peaceful mood. I think the photograph might benefit from cropping away the bottom 1/4 of the image - there is a lot of water there with nothing happening. A crop would also place the boat closer to the bottom third of the image, which ought to result in a more pleasing composition.

what jo said. crop away the extra water and it will look better.

Following Jo's words, I cropped some of the water in the foreground and a small amount of sky, for the reason that there was a lot of sky not adding to the composition. I moved the boat away from the centre of the frame and adjusted the histogram sliders. I moved the highlight slider left until it just touched the edge of the histogram and I moved the midtone slider to the right to add a a little more depth of tone. I think that there is a little too much green in the water but that can be adjusted to suit your tastes.

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Nice work, pixelmangler, looks much better cropped down and tweaked.

JoYork wrote in post #10778276
Nice work, pixelmangler, looks much better cropped down and tweaked.

Thanks Jo. I should have rotated the image to stop the water flowing uphill.

Boat looks alittle green, but i think its probably this crappy work laptop or im getting sea sick. Here is my try.

^ Much better.
Starting to look good now.
I'd be interested in seeing the OP's next best try.

Here's a slightly different rendering. I isolated the 4 elements for local contrast adjustment and hue and saturation for the sky and water. There is a green cast in the original and it's still an overcast day.

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nice jetcode it looks alot sharper now with the better contrast

Thanks everyone I appreciate the comments. I have decided it look much better cropped and that yes there was a colour cast on the picture. I have re done the picture cropped and white balance adjusted and have toned down the sky a bit.

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Mind you I think I prefer this.

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