BOATS - Taken this summer in Rockport. Shot from top of dock with many angle possiblilities. I am pleased with the compisition .. Please share your thoughts...

Very pleasing composition, nicely balanced.

I like the composition and the primary colors work great. Nice photo.

This is a good image. I find the colors to make the photo great by its simplicity. MOREOVER the way the photo has been cropped adds to it. Regards PK

Nice work, balanced just right.

I am repeating myself again with respect to your images. You see graphic elements in a busy world extremely well! I think the righthand side of the frame could be shortened to a point halfway along the middle red seat of the red boat. I think that this is because there is too much empty water in the top right corner of the frame, and because the black seat is too distracting. The shortened image would also reinforce the idea that the yellow seat in the red boat, as a visual element, is holding the yellow boat from "tipping" over in the image frame. With the bow of the yellow boat sitting directly on the image frame and the boat angled to the right it needs that yellow seat to act as a supporting member. Usually it is not wise to have visual elements sitting directly on the frame of the image but in this case you have made a perfect case for it!

Nice vision Mitchell. You see the color and the patterns very well. It's interesting that the only complete boat is the yellow one in the center, even the red one is clipped off in a couple places rendering the other three boats to secondary players in this scene. It's also interesting that the three consecutive boats were the three primary colors (blue, yellow, red) with the gray one at the top representing the gray scale from white to black. This can't possibly be just coinceidence, can it?

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Beautiful graphic shot... Nicely framed... great colors...

Love the colors

Good color combo.

This is very good! Nice seen! Great composition.

Beautiful, but I miss the red boat's prow

Beautiful, but I miss the red boat's prow

ho ho!

 

Are we not photographers' here, dealing with light? A fine distinction needs to be made without further ado.

 

Not that this really matters, but Red Green (not yellow)and Blue (RGB) are the primary colors of light, the basic ingredient in every photograph we take, and our first lesson in photography. Also known as the Additive system.

 

This photo depicts the primary colors of the subtractive system, Red, Yellow (not green) and Blue. This systme relates to pigments.

 

Mixing the subtractive primary colors (red, yellow and blue) produces black. Mixing the additive colors of light (red, green and blue) produces white.

 

I like this photo, but I think it's only because of the color. This light is nice, directional and open, and the composition is fine all over except a little cramped for me in the closeness of the bottom border to the yellow prow, and the missing red prow, which I would like to see. Also, in terms of the pureness of the concept, the yellow seat on the red boat makes for wishfull thinking as I am now looking for comparisons: A blue seat in the yellow boat, red in the blue, etc.

 

So, in terms of eyeballing and executing this shot: Good job. I'd be proud of it, too. In terms of these particular boats conveying the ideal primary-colored-boats-tied-at-the-dock shot----almost. A can of red paint would have helped.

Distinction understood. I was thinking along different lines; from red, yellow, and blue, you can make all other colors. Red and yellow make orange, yellow and blue make green, blue and red make violet,....so on and so on. I escpecially like the way the gray canoe is stuffed in at the top.

With such a good knowledge of colour recipes, Doug, it's a shame all your photos are black & white. (-: This is a fine study of shape and colour, and the inky black water is an unusual asset. Perhaps the red and blue boats would work better against this dark background if their hue wasn't bordering on burgundy and lilac. More natural and saturated primary colours could have heightened the image's main strength. As for the arrangement of the boats I find myself wishing I had a long pole so I could experimentally poke them about until I found a pattern I was completely happy with. I reckon I might want the prows of all three coloured boats pointing inwards to each other, maybe losing the white boat altogether. But then that's probably too predictable. But give me an afternoon of leisurely boat prodding with a stick and I think I could come up with something quite interesting... I dare say Mitchell didn't have the benefit of a fifteen-foot pole and pots of red and blue (or green) paint at the time so he deserves credit at least for spotting the shot and getting this commendable result.

This looks full frame and with a fixed focal length lens I really can't suggest a more appealing arrangement; pole or no pole. I particularly like the flat deep grey of the water. It's smooth and distractionless without a sparkle, ripple or weed and changes only with the shadows. Had the yellow boat been pushed out an inch or two away from the bottom edge I fear it might have gained a little too much of the central ground and dominated at the expense of the others. This way it still hogs the stage but not in a way which over powers the others. The yellow seat allows the eye to move easily on to the red boat and the pitchfork shaped white rim; another feature I like against the water. The red boat is number 2 in the hierarchy. Moving left to the blue boat is less easy. To the right has less resistance. Overall I detect cleanliness in the colouring and arrangement and I like that very much.

I like the irregularity of it. It could so easily have been too neat. Good job.