Harborby
GraciousComment by myqyl: Critique Club Comment :
Sorry this is so late... It's been a bad week :)
Composition : A lot of what I'm going to say about composition assumes that you can hover over water. Please feel free to disregard this if that isn't among your talents :) If this could have been taken from about 3 or 4 feet to your left, I think it would have made the dock a strong diagonal into the shot under the diagonals of the poles of the boats... (I don't know if that makes sense or not). As it is the dock slants slightly right to left (from bottom to top) and doesn't generate the same WoW that either a straight line or a more dramatic slant might have. Again, if you haven't learned to hover, ignore this :) I do like the Red jacket dead on the third point. I hadn't noticed the feet until Gordon mentioned it, but I think he has a point.
Exposure : My monitor had the opposite problem, which I was able to correct largely by stealing my wife's monitor. Knowing that your monitor shows darker then standard, you may want to adjust your pictures to be a little darker than you would like. This shot did suffer from the exposure.
Focus / DoF : Focus was well done. No problems.
Post Processing : Last word on your monitor problem... Put this shot on a floppy and bring it to a computer store. Tell the salesman you want to look at monitors and look at this on a different monitor. It may help you adjust your future shots.
Challenge / Interest : Challenge clearly met.
My opinion : I'd like to see this shot again if you could process it on a different monitor. I think it has great potential with the strong lines and the jacket.
Photographer found comment helpful.
