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I set out to try and capture a local marina as the sun went down but I didn't have much success. I therefore turned my attention to the locks. I have cropped this a little but I would be interested to see some different crops.
I'm sure the picture is straight but I can't help feeling it leans to the left.
f/5.6, 1/4s, 14mm, ISO 400
All comments and mods most welcome.
Phil
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| Lens: | Olympus 14-42mm |
| Recording media: | JPEG (digital) |
| Title: | Lemonroyd Locks |
| Username: | 
Philo |
| Uploaded: | 19 Jun 2010 - 10:27 AM |
| Tags: | Canal, Landscape / travel, Lemonroyd, Locks |
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Hi Phil. Quite a nice effort here but I can't help feeling that the inclusion of a human figure - or even a boat! - would have helped give a sense of scale here. It has a somewhat deserted look.
As regards the crop, I don't think the area to the left of the photo adds a great deal and it could perhaps be usefully cropped out. I'm not too keen on the deeply cyan coloured clouds and these could be selectively desaturated. A contrast boost, via a curves adjustment, may help to increase impact. (Some areas of sky have bleached out but, other than cloning, there's not a great deal that can be done about that now).
I've uploaded a mod which reflects my comments, which I hope help.
This would be a good shot Phil to use a ND grad filter to control the light in the sky, so you can then expose more for the foreground area and get more light here. It would help to give the shot better contrast and more impact. It's worth thinking about if you do a lot of landscape stuff.
Best wishes
Catherine
Sky is a bit weak, but you have a reasonably good and well composed shot of a set of lock gates. This could actually sell as an illustration in a library, but it does lack a real point of interest and/or some dramatic lighting to lift it from good record to cracking shot.
paul
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