single photos Nanticoke Beach

This is my very first upload to photo.net, and I am a beginner. I am

just trying to learn more. I used a polarizer and a longer exposure to

get the water effect. Please critique anyway you can! Thanks.

This is well composed. I am usually not a fan of water lines through the middle of the frame, but it works here. The colors are pleasant and perhaps could be a little more intense/saturated. The rocks appear a little soft at the edges to me and I'd like the trees to either have more detail or more totally black. Great first post to photo-net.

 

John

Hi, I am also fresh at the forum, congratulations for the desire to show your things and learn :) I like your photo, I myself adore the blurred water effect with longer exposure. Do you know that using ND filter you may even get exposures up to ten seconds at daylight :) Try some unsharp masking in photoshop maybe.

Hi Brian, Beautiful colors, what I suggest is to move the horizon from the middle ground a little bit to the top, also I would like to see more of the rocks. By the way what aperture did you use?. You shold use f16 and up to get a clear scene (all in focus) Just my opinion, Welcome to PN. Regards.

I made some quick adjustments just to give you an idea of what I meant. I didn't do any fine tuning, so the edges are sharp and I missed a couple spots.

(Hope you don't mind)

 

John

Thank you so much for the critiques already! They are very helpful with identifying areas that I can improve on.

Jesus- I used f22, which was the highest I could go.

 

John- I do like your modifications, I'll have to play around with sharpness and saturation a bit more. Oh, I dont mind editing my picture at all :)

I tried to touch up the photo a bit in photoshop using some suggestions recommended above. I'm not the best in photoshop but I want to see what everyone thinks about this one compared to the original. Thanks!

Very nice Brian. It has more punch. It would look very nice printed out on watercolor paper.

 

John