Paint Me!

In the middle of nowhere this hulk will always remain.

 

I know my photos suck, so if you leave a 2, tell me why, or leave

7/7s and I'll buy you dinner at Joe's Stone Crab in Miami.

I have seen this very wreckage photo'd many times. This photo doesn't "Suck", but it certainly isn't very interesting. Maily because it's very plain/normal perspective, angle, and centering of the subject. You need to move your feet, try different angles, different distances, anything out of the ordinary. Even try things you think wont work. Either way, you will learn that shooting things strait on, at a medium distance, dead centered, with an ordinary perspective doesn't work as well as you think it does.

even using something small like a different crop, can make a HUGE difference.

I'm interested in seeing more detail of the subject... a bit too much empty space.

I think that Brandon's crop suggestion is a good one. Additionally the sky in the original is a bit dull, although I know there's not much that you could have done about it.

The scans were marginal, from a pro shop, I'm kinda pissed but they lost a customer. Interestingly, I had a taken photo, almost axactly the same as the suggested crop, probably closer with a 35 mm MF lens, but I scanned/printed this one as the "pro" lab tech said this was much better More "ambience", my first impression was to print the other, I should have. The sky is pretty plain, thre was never much color there, Angola is pretty polluted, plus sea level sky is hard to get on an interesting day. The ship also had it's name welded on the side, I wish I was able to pick that out of the shadow. Lastly, shot on 100GX at sunset, the boat was a great glowing rusty brown, the scan didn't get capture that either. I think it is time st start to look for a good scanner and ptactice, practice practice. If you revisit this pic, take a look at the comments on the pic Retired War Bird.

 

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Maybe could have been cropped in? Love the wreck but the sky doesn't hold the interest quite as much