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To crop or not to crop watery landscape far from the shore
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I am so torn between leaving this as is with a little off the top and bottom or croping to a square with either 1/3 water or 1/3 sky mmm looks good in mono too (in my humble opinion of course :)) I am dithering though ….. opinions? onions?
sorry deleted the original so this is the reworked version as per wonkas suggestion
And no at the time i could not get nearer as the tide seemed to be possibly on the turn, with the water almost over my wellies and I was over a mile from the shore. it was a bit wierd looking back and thinking where the feck is the car….
Leave it as it is – my opinion. It exaggerates the isolation which I think is your aim? Maybe the slightest overlay gradient on the top to contain the image? Just a thought.
Alan
Thanks mr wonka it was as this was going to be my expanse entry but I didnt have time to enter this one
That was the idea of the central position but i was getting all paranoid on the “am i doing the right thing” being bang in the middle or not :)
Sometimes it’s good to break the rule of thirds. This picture is a nice example of that.
IMO I dont think cropping is necessary either. To make it square would lose the detail in the foreground.
This is with Mr Wonkas suggested containment on the sky with an overlay layer gradient at about 15% opacity
Hi Mark,
I suppose I’m nothing much but I too think it’s perfectly
fine as it is.I’ve experimented cropping off the top and bottom by scrolling and
didn’t see any crop that looks better, to my eye anyway.Nice.
John.
Pitmatic wrote:
This is with Mr Wonkas suggested containment on the sky with an overlay layer gradient at about 15% opacity
Lookin’ good!
Thanks guys it was a long walk with fish swimming about me lol
I did replace the sky and horizon on this and swapping it with one from a shot facing the other way although the originals sky was perfectly fine what ruined the view for me was the housing sprawl that could be seen in the distance.
I dont really like swapping things like that i prefer to process than composite an image but I could see the potential in this and after that long wet walk the gentle shape of Knocknarea in the distance seemed to make a more fitting backdrop.
Second is a big improvement. I’m with teh rest on the composition – it works well.
Nice image. doesnt need cropping but if it had to be cropped i would crop the sky and a little off the bottom to make it a square with the boat nearer the top third.
I agree with the above, cropping some sky off looks good, but not nessecarily…nesessarily…neccessarily…necessarily…or whatever…better!
Oooohh, just as well you didnt enter it for Expanse as replacing skies is against the rules (well, the rule)…..
“Example:
Not allowed: Take a great sky from one photo and add it to a photo which has a dull sky, thereby making the overall photograph look much more ……”You might have got away with it though as its not a “great” sky :lol:
Was I the only one who read the rule?
Re the 2nd version, the overlay gradiant added more than the crop imo.
Hi I know replacing skies is not allowed but I shot this with the intent of entering it into the compo but i didnt have time to process it and notice how the houses ruined it so my plan “B” image went instead :)
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