Lemon bubbles
by SoulMan1978

Comment by jeger:
Good idea. Could be a little sharper.

Lemon bubbles
by SoulMan1978

Comment by AndrewGonzilla:
Not enough clarity.

Lemon bubbles
by SoulMan1978

Comment by jessy_pesce:
seems to be out of focus, if done better coulda been pretty cool however

Lemon bubbles
by SoulMan1978

Comment by ErikV:
Would be better if sharper and more focused

Lemon bubbles
by SoulMan1978

Comment by kelvinyam:
OOF

Lemon bubbles
by SoulMan1978

Comment by MommaLola:
the coloring is not really nice

Lemon bubbles
by SoulMan1978

Comment by kaarissaa:
the lighting on the bottom is good. but using a lemon should of had more light shining through

Lemon bubbles
by SoulMan1978

Comment by silverscreen:
really lacks saturation, contrast and focus...

Lemon bubbles
by SoulMan1978

Comment by jblaylockrayner:
These type of pictures need to be pin sharp and bright but this image is not.

Wells Quayside in the Evening
by SoulMan1978

Comment by Matthew:
You have interesting subject matter and the light is not bad - an interesting contrast between the bright sunlight and the dark cloudy sky.

I think that you have not made the most of the subject matter for a couple of reasons. Your composition does not appeal to me. It is not clear to me what should be the focal point. The red boat at the front is half obscured by the quay, the other boats are receding in a line, the buildings are somewhat distant, and the leading line of the quay does not give any guidance. So I think that your composition fails to tell any story.

Things that you could have tried to do with this scene include making the red boat part of the focal point (moving so that all of it was clear), moving to make the interesting curve in the quay a more significant part of the picture (it happens on the edge of your image), making the line of boats properly lead to the buildings (the buildings are largely cropped out), or (my preferred option) choosing a wide angle and landscape format to make the most of the light that you have got (the best part IMO), Norfolk’s naturally flat and open landscape, and contrasting it against that dark sky, using the line of the boats to move the eye across the image along the bottom edge. I would place the line of boats on one third line and the have the buildings on an intersection of third lines. I would try and find an angle where I could have most or all of the foremost boat in shot.

I think that sharpness issues are minor – a shake of unsharp mask at 500% and 0.2 radius would sort that out. F9.0 is entirely appropriate for a landscape scene to maintain sharpness in depth. Blowing out some of the reds is also minor and would be largely forgiven outside DPC if the rest of the image were well composed.