Harbour Sunset

Gemma

Comments welcome and appreciated.

JC

It's a bit busy to me, it just doesn't seem to have a strong subject to draw me in. I also think it'd be drastically different, maybe more interesting, with the light behind you, or on a doldrums day with the water glassy smooth.

Gemma

Harbours do tend to be busy and with the light behind me it wouldn't have been when the sun was setting that I took the picture - there would have been many more people about and I wouldn't have had the colour in the sky or the golden reflections in the water. I could have used a long exposure to smooth the sea, but I wanted it to look like sea and not mist.

Thank you for commenting.

Earache

Hi Gemma,

Yep, it's me again, sorry .... trust me, I get tired of me too....
I don't know... why more people won't participate here (Dgin)... cryin' shame if you ask me.
I have theories.... I see a lot of comments about how great it used to be...
Human Beans are funny creatures.... I'll leave it at that.

Back to your image;
I'm going to respectfully disagree with kolibri;
Such scenes as this are busy by nature and composition will be limited as a result - purse from a sow's ear etc. This scene will probably never be greater than the sum of it's parts.
I like the image as a record of this place and the lighting is a nice golden hour catch - probably much "better" than mid-day etc.
I like the golden textured water as-is... Also, as usual, I will wish for something not there - foreground interest such as a small boat, buoy, mermaid, etc.

Cheers!

BreakALeg

Agree w/Earache that something in the foreground would perk this picture up tremendously, giving it a focal starting point for the viewer. I'd warm up the light just a wee bit if you're addressing exposure at all.

Gemma

Eric, please don't apologise - I welcome your comments as I do anybody else's.

Somebody else's opinion can have you looking at your photographs with fresh eyes.

It isn't easy to make a picture when the scene isn't a naturally pretty one, and this is a working fishing harbour, but it's perhaps more challenging.

I also agree with both yourself and Sherri that foreground interest would have helped and I did try including a section of the pier I was standing on (with a seagull stood on a post looking towards the sunset) but it didn't look right because there was a boat moored to the post, which you couldn't see, only the rope off to the side of it which stretched across the bottom section of the photograph. I suppose I could have cloned the rope out and may have done if I had software other than Lightroom atm.

Many thanks all of you for your comments.