To make certain that I was within the ROTs, for this challenge, I created a frame action that would lock my image using the ROTs. It divided my 640x480 frame into threes and I was able to locate my subject carefully.
Post processing includes:
- Rotate to align horizon
- Adjusted levels
- USM
- Neat Image
- Adjusted contrast
- Adjusted levels
- Crop
- Save for web
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Compositionally, you have nailed this shot. The boat is on the third making it a stable and balanced picture. You have included enough background to make it have the proper context, and thus interest, but it is at such a distant that it does not distract. Also, the boat is isolated, so there is no "competition" of subjects for the viewer.
Technically, the picture has the appearance of being out of focus. It could be one of several different things. It as underexposed and you had to adjust the brightness too much. It was too much of a crop. Or, it could just be oversharpened. Regardless, it has got a "grainy" feeling to it, though "noise" isn't an issue. (I am referring to how the photo "feels" more than the technical aspect of "grain" and "noise.")
Overall, it is a shot that meets the challenge well, but suffers from some technical issues that keep it from being a "wow" shot. The peacefulness and serenity that comes from looking at the boat cannot be surpassed.
This is definitely something that you might want to shoot again (in concept, I know you can't get this exact boat in this exact spot again . . .), but it has the potential of being a dynamite shot.
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