Stranded Long Tail Boatby
orvaratliComment by macrothing:
Critique Club Critique
First Impressions
'Ding Ding' - This is my 100th Critique Club Critique and I'm very pleased to have drawn this image from the stack.
I gave this an 8 during voting - beautiful image.
Really like the strong perspective, colors, but mostly my favorite part of the image is the rope visible/captured under the water.
Photograph Information, Technicals & Composition Review
I really like how your exposure time and depth has created a borderline milky effect on the water, yet still retaining that transparency. Of course the reflections, subtle from the boat but more dominant on the left from the mountain, add extra interest to the image and in no way create a sense of 'busyness'. These and the other elements just allow you to view 'new things' when revisiting the image.
I like the composition and any change to it would create another (excellent) image. My only real 'niggle' with this image and it is fairly minor, but one that my mind always finds unsettling, is that the horizon & water 'level' seems out by a whisker (needs the smallest of fractions up on the right), but could be the perspective/angle, plus the fact the angle of the boat, which perhaps just fools the eye.
The shape on the distant pinkish clouds 'sweep in' toward the boat which is good - but does make me wonder about accentuating that in your composition, but again - another image. Maybe I'd like to see a little more detail on the fore of the boat, especially where the writing/drawing/artwork is in white... but again - another image.
Comments, Score & Placement Review
10th place (out of 378) in a Free Study is excellent and a score of 6.80 is strong (a little surprising, to be honest I was expecting to see it higher). An average of 7.77 from your commenters with one or two 'suggestions for improvement', but these sound more like personal taste and I'm not sure that they would improve
this image (again, another image). Otherwise, your commenters mostly just tell you what they like about the image and their reactions, which of course is usually a good thing.
Summary
This must bring back those pleasant feelings and thoughts for you when you look at this and I hope you have it somewhere, whether printed or digital, to 'take you there' when you need it most.
Congratulations on the top 10. I'm thankful this image was #100 for me.
A beautiful image.
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