A Couple Shots...

upstatesnapshot

Greetings...I took a few pics yesterday and am hoping for some advice on what I can do to modify them...

Thanks!

upstatesnapshot

Are they that far gone??? :slosh

Owen

You gave it less than 24hrs for comments...

They look fine to me. Keep on keepin' on. Straighten your horizon on the 3rd shot.

upstatesnapshot

Owen wrote:

You gave it less than 24hrs for comments...

They look fine to me. Keep on keepin' on. Straighten your horizon on the 3rd shot.

Thanks man...for some reason I cant tell if I like them or not and got impatient...normally I either like the pics or not, this time, I have landed in the middle...

Thanks again

Scott_Quier

First thing, I think these shots are actually very nice. You asked for comments to help improve, well, looking at your shots:

• Boat - The horizon is flat (good) but I think this would have been better had you not included quite so much of the sky. It appears to be blown and the near aspect of the boat is more than just a little under exposed. To fix: maybe you can do some dodging to lighten up the shadowed portions oft the boat?
• The Man - His right hand is blown and his face is shadowed a bit. Maybe dodge the face about 1/2 to 2/3 stop? Also, his right thumb is a orphan. I'm thinking that cropping/cloning that out would improve the shot. If you have more room in the original to the left of the guy, including a bit more of that might improve it by giving him a bit more room in which to breath.
• The fishing pier - Only two things I might do to improve this - straighten the horizon and include more of the tips of the fishing rods if you have some more of the image to the left.

upstatesnapshot

Thanks alot for the suggestions Scott....truly appreciated! I will get to work on some modifications tonight and repost. Thanks again.

Joe

Mike02

1st one is really good, and the 2/3 are so-so, but nice job overall.

upstatesnapshot

Thanks for the inputs Mike...much appreciated.

Joe