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This is a lovely composition, but the rather lurid colour doesn't work for me - highly saturated reds and yellows lose too much detail in digital. Plus the work you have done creates pronounced light halos around the black lines. I've uploaded a b&w mod, I suspect that you won't care for it but the effect is much calmer for me. Hope you won't be offended by that!

Quote:This is a lovely composition, but the rather lurid colour doesn't work for me - highly saturated reds and yellows lose too much detail in digital. Plus the work you have done creates pronounced light halos around the black lines. I've uploaded a b&w mod, I suspect that you won't care for it but the effect is much calmer for me. Hope you won't be offended by that!
Thanks for the B&W mod Moira , will take your observations on board & certainly not offended at all , always happy to be given any advice

Ian

Lovely strong silhouettes against the sunset, Ian. A lot has been said about the colour saturation, and so I have tried a modification where I reduced it a bit. I also brightened the image, and cropped to recompose the image and place the boat on a thirds line, and also the water's edge at the same time. This was achieved by doing small crops to the left and bottom of the frame.

Reality as photographers is what we see in our minds eyes sometimes....whether it is what is actually there is not always as important. I have to admit to "goosing" in camera some of my sunset photos when at anchor on a sailboat on the Corsica River off the Chesapeake. All critiques aside (and I cannot disagree with them,though the mono does not have a the "punch" any of the three color versions do.
As a sailor, my question is, Ian, did they make it to shore...clearly, there was pretty much no wind at that point?
Peter
As a sailor, my question is, Ian, did they make it to shore...clearly, there was pretty much no wind at that point?
Peter