Where The Pacific Endsby
ellamayComment by Harz_Joerg: Greetings from the Critique Club
Initial thoughts/My opinion
Great colour, contrast and sharpness, but where is the end of the pacific or is it that small that one can see from one side to the other?!
Composition/Content
This image lives from the high contrast between the foreground, the silhouette of the city and the bright, nicely coloured sky and bay water. Even the very bright reflection on the left side works well: gives me the feeling That I need to close my eyes a little bit to see better. Although this does not work of course, I like such effects: they transfer the viewer into the scenery. Also the various soft textures of waves on the water adds the overall mood.
The composition is also well made: I like the absolutely horizontal line of the silhouette towards the water and also the line shown at the lower shore. It's too sad that it's broken by the right bench: a slightly different angle making both benches being at the same height relative to the shore line might have been better, because the image lives somehow from lines made by men and nature (by nature this I mean the trees).
Camera work -technically
Nothing to complain about, very well done: crisp and sharp, especially the silhouette, even the distant trees turn out very well and not fuzzy at all. Also well exposed: as already mentioned I like the overexposed portion, so that's OK with me.
Digital Processing - Technical
Also very well done. Maybe only sharpened a tad too much, which leads to some jaggies in the benches, but elsewhere sharpness is just right. Also you might have increased the contrast a little to lose all structures in the grass at the bottom.
Fits the challenge
Here is my problem with your submission and it's not the image itself (it shows some very well defined edges when taking the challenge subject literally). It's the title that lead for me to a totally different expectation: as mentioned above, I do not see any end of the pacific.
However, it's just a title! But this might explain to you how some of the voters have seen your otherwise great submission
Good luck for you further submissions
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PS: As this is one of my first Critique Club critiques, it would be helpful to get some feedback if you like.
Forgotten: Happy New Year to you!
Message edited by author 2003-12-31 14:41:02. 
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