PhillipMinnis

A lovely scene! Nice colours, light, tones and composition! I feel that the horizon is very slightly leaning to the right. I could be wrong, but I'm pretty pedantic about level horizons, and I'm usually right!


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Phil

I just had a bit of a play around with this image. I've uploaded a modification. See what you think!

I prefer to make the block on the left-hand side the main focal point of the scene. IMHO, to do this the sea in the top right-hand corner has to be cropped out. When I cropped out the sea, it left a rather distracting dark patch (inbetween the back row and blocks and the row in front). If felt this needed to be cropped out as well, if there was to be no distraction away from the front block. After I'd completed cropping, I increased the contrast by 7 and the brightness by 5.

Let me know what you think! :0


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Phil

Fran, this is a wonderful image!

I prefer the 2nd version, simply because the 1st version appears to have significant amounts of artifacting evident; it's particularly concentrated in the top left-hand corner. I'm certainly not trying to be rude, condescending or derogatory about this....it's just that I've had years of experience dealing with this issue. I upload to 13 microstock photography sites world-wide, and in the early days, I battled with this problem in many of my images. My images were frequently rejected by the inspectors on these sites because of this problem. In recent years, I've learned how to overcome the problem. The better the lens, the better the lighting, the less filtering, the less sharpening, and the less cropping you do to an image, all helps to prevents this issue.

As I said, they are both lovely images. Excellent composition!

Congratulations on your award!


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Phil

PS I sincerely ask you not to take my comments the wrong way. I can assure you they are meant to be nothing more than constructive.