Well well Bill, I got your photo to critique, isn't that a coincidence :) I will overlook the spelling mistake first of all, it seems no one saw that at all (I wonder if you noticed it yourself?)
The sepia works for me here, kind of like an old fashioned setting. Personally there is impact missing, there has to be something special about a photo that the viewer can look at and say "cool", this is impressive. If this had been my shot, I would probably have asked a little boy to sit on the side of the boat with a straw hat, old fashioned clothes and an old pole fishing rod, and legs hanging of the back of the boat, just fishing, maybe even with a piece of straw hanging from his mouth. Then I would have used your Tamron 70-300, gone back further and at the full 300mm taken the shot so that the whole background is blurred more and you just have full focus on the boat and the boy. I find that the boats in the immediate background and the land way out the back is too sharp and pulls the eye away from your main subject. Okey dokey? See you in Calgary :) |