fisherman's life

Thank you!

I love it! wonderful picture, congraduations.

It's a great portrait of this fishermans life. Well captured.

 

/Rasmus

Love the expressions in his face.

perfect!

Great photo!Regards

Fantastic!

Great strong portrait. Even the birds fit this composition. Wonderful.

This is a fanatastic capture. Very beautiful image with excellent, pov, tones, light, expression and synthesis. Excellent Ioanna. Bravo.

Very nice photo, g. Jitka (www.jitkaunverdorben.estranky.cz)

Great job. Everything's just right!

Very nice.

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I guess, because I really like this photograph very much that I studied it for a long time. The fisherman's face is weathered and wonderful with a great expression. Birds and clouds were cooperative.

 

The more I studied it, the more I saw that I wish could be changed. Little things, nothing major at all, but a number of elements bother me. The picture shows, or rather hints at strength, but lacks true feeling of movement by the subject. Maybe hauling the net is just a slow activity. I feel there should be a slight blur to the hand.

 

I would like to see a little more sky above the figure's head. It's cropped a bit tight there. Along that line, the image is rather busy and some of the busyness could be eliminated by cropping much of the area to the left of the subject's hand. In fact, this might have been better as a vertical or square photograph.

 

Why is the whole upper left of the photo above the fisherman's hand out of focus, yet the hand is sharp as a tack as is another object, possibly a glass covered light, above and to the right of whatever the drum-shapped object the net is being hauled around, yet it is farther away. The area between is blurred. Strange? - I think so.

 

I like all the shades of gray and interesting details. You have a most impressive series of pictures in your portfolio. Nice portraits. Congratulations on being chosen this week.

 

Willie the Cropper

The attraction of this photo is the weathered face of the fisherman and his expression of concentration. The photo feels unbalanced to me, with a lot of heavy stuff to the left and seagulls on the right, but as I look at the photo, this leads to an unsettled feeling, which is just how I'd feel aboard a boat that is pitching around.

 

To respond to Bill's concern about the out of focus area at top left, this is a reel that holds the net. It appears the fisherman is guiding the net as it is being rolled onto the reel. The reel is closer to the camera lens than is the fisherman's hand, so this is a DOF issue.

 

How could the photo be improved? Putting the reel in focus would be nice (more DOF), and maybe a red filter to bring out the clouds a bit more. But the fisherman himself is the main attraction, and he holds the photo together.

I think this is a incredibly wonderful "feeling" photo. This depicts the life style to the tee! Of what it is to be on a boat.....fishing.

 

You captured the essence of this moment! A great image. Thanks for sharing such a wonderful insight!

 

Regards, Todd

I would have reduced the depth of field a bit, but the composition is great. Aside from that, it's nothing exceptional.

I love this picture...it is a great environmental portrait. Just a tad more space above the head would me my preference to give it a more airy "open seas" feeling -- it feels a tad claustrophobic.

I agree with Kieran about less DOF (with more we'd have all on one plane and lose an essential tool of making a photograph interesting and give it the visual sense of structure and depth), I also could do with a wider lens to give more space around. I don't think that the fisherman would lose attention, esp. with less DOF, but I'd have room to wander around and breathe.

I like the composition, with his hand reaching out, his expression, the open space with the seagulls.

Very beautiful image, very expressive face, paradigmatic elements of fisherman's life and great work on b&w tones. Congratulations.

A photo that marks the viewer due to the face of the man. He shows no joy of what he is

doing and seems to have been doing since long. His worrying eyes reflect that this is one

of the most dangerous professions and that the danger comes from exactly what he looks

towards: The hand and the machine drawing in the net. A very good scene of real life of

real people.

 

In technical terms, the composition is very well mastered (even the birds have found their

respective places) but there is indeed a problem that others already have menioned

concerning the out of focus of the upper left corner that disturbs the eye.

Unlike some, I like the DOF in the shot as is. If the DOF in this shot were shallow, I don't think it would be as powerful. The photo does a great job of showing how rugged everything is, including the gear, rope and even the sea. Keeping everything sharp makes it look authentic.

A wider view will make this picture more powerful, maybe a fisheye will keep you on the boat. :)

One of my favorite POW's in awhile... interesting, dramatic composition and great lighting / tone. There is a sense of immediacy and being 'on board'. It has both artistic and documentary qualities. Congrats!

The details in the face of the fisherman are what draws me to this photo - The face shows a sense of dramatic ruggedness with hands that are obviously speckled with blood. Nice composition effect of the birds circling above and behind over the water, BUT, I wonder if more boat is needed. Could this have been taken on a pier? Maybe a "portrait" orientation instead of "landscape" would capture more boat. It's not necessarily the rigging that he's pulling as the subject of the picture afterall, is it? Otherwise, I feel it's a great piece of work.