Family of Ducks on the Rideau Canalby
adamslightComment by JulietNN: Greetings from the CC Club
I like your title, it took me a moment to see why you titled it, cute!
Now I am presuming that you took this at night time or very late in the evening? Your ISO is way up there. Your high ISO will give you a fair amount of grain to start off with, and then you added grain. Obviously you like the grain or your wouldn't have done it, so I will stop talking about the grain!
There is a lot of dead space at the top of your shot, a closer crop would have drawn more attention to what you wanted the people to see, which was the three boats and the surrounding areas. You have lost a massive amount of details when you added the grain. You have 5 leading lines in this shot and none of them are really that dominant.
When taking a shot like this, you have to have a focal point in mind. I can not find one that I want to look at, rather I am scanning all over the place to find something. I am finding the angle a little hard to work with also.
If you get teh chance to do this again, do so, because it is a gorgeous scene
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