Red

All critiques are welcome - Thanks for your

help/insight/suggestions/reactions

 

- Peter

What a great photo! It truely is one of the better photo's that I have seen on this site. Please give us some details of how, when, where and if you used filters, manipulated, etc.

Post Processing manipulation (PS) with a black canvas. Very very creastive. I really like it.

 

GOod Job..

Stephen, Roy - thanks for the comments and interest.

 

To answer Stephen's question, Roy has the answer bang on. The original photo was difficult having a sunny top and a shady bottom half, (no filters used on the lens) with the sea being a distraction from what I thought should be the main theme - the boat and the gull. As Roy says I used PS to remove everything but the boat and the gull and then evened out the lighting/contrast between the shadow half of the boat and the sunlight half of the boat. I'd never used an extensively black canvas background before, but was pleased with it. Thanks for the encouragement.

- Peter

Hello Peter,

 

I like the image, but the fact that it feels as though it is floating in mid air (same with the bird) disturbs me a little. Perhaps if you included some sort of an anchor (a bit of water - even if dark) would ground the image.