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efrenComment by amber: Hi from the Critique Club!
Sometimes when we look at a scene in real life we
feel something, or it moves us. Often when we take a photograph of that moment, it can fail to convey or capture that feeling or emotion, no matter how accurate the exposure, depth of field or shutter speed. The camera cannot sense what we sense.
Sometimes, we find that by experimenting with photoshop we can create an image that whilst it isn't 'true to life' strictly speaking, it can convey something of what we saw with our 'other' vision.
I think that perhaps you have done that here; the over saturation does convey a sense of one of those days, when the blue of the sky, and it's reflection in the water are almost too blue and wonderful.It's all down to personal choice and taste and depends on who you are trying to please - yourself or others.
That said: The rhythm created by the pier is irregular but interesting, but the fact that it tilts upwards on the right-hand side distracts the eye of the viewer and disturbs the balance.
The yellow buoy is a nice contrast to the blue, but the boat? in the bottom left-hand corner is very distracting. Had you cropped the left hand side of the image to get rid of this, it would not have harmed your image much. In fact you could have cropped up to the clearer water reflections and made a cleaner image perhaps, focusing even more on the pier and the clean reflections on the water.
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