Beacon to safety

While sailing off the coast of Norway, with some fresh winds and an

extremely unpleasent swell, this rainbow seemed to guide us toward the

quiet of Kristiansund...

 

The noise is just horrible, this apart, what do you think of this

image? Comments and criticism are much welcome.

A kite... the land is having fun with in the wind by flying a kite :-)

 

First thing it made me think of. Not sure how strong the image is as a whole, but made me smile. Maybe I'm just after a little more foreground, but then, if you're looking at rainbows, how important is the foreground, anyway?

(More) often seen, seldom caught :-))

I like a tighter crop. It keeps more of the emphasis on the land. Maybe that's a little too tight, but you get the idea.

I am sure that there are a lot of people who will have a look on this. more foreground? maybe. anyway, it's touching anyhow

I prefer your version, because the cropped one just kills the "rule of thirds" you have carefully built.

A strong image.

Rule of thirds... never heard of it.

Sorry Lionel, I was being sarcastic. I know what the rule of thirds is. I just don't think it is a good reason not to crop this photo. If you crop it tightly, then this the light projects from the bottom left, which to me is the main subject. By cropping tightly you accomplish at least a few things:

 

1. Balance the tightly placed subject in the bottom left.

 

2. Focus the viewer's attention on the important elements.

 

3. Enhance the drama and flair, make it more dramatic.

 

4. It creates a feeling of motion from left to right and then upward to the heavens!

 

 

 

If you consider the main subject to be the rainbow, then I think your point is valid. But, then it then becomes more of a static shot because the light stops before the right edge of the frame. Let it flow I say! Give us some drama with that rainbow please!

Life is funny.

 

When I was out there -and mind that the swell was really less than pleasent and looking into a viewfinder is not really straightforward, I had composed and shot this way.

Then, the problem is that something went wrong with the sensor -or I still cannot convert raw into tiff, what I do fast and cheap and dirty with irfanview, and that image was not usable. The rainbow is somewhat "hot" in the centre and gets all colour messed up in blobs. See this attachment.

...is that I had this other shot, taken a few second after, where the conversion seems to be decent, and I cropped as it is shown here.

 

Hope this helps the discussion and in making sense of all the story...

 

...if someone can offer a better recipe for the raw->tiff conversion... it will be welcome!

The three posts and attachment above this try to explain why this ends up looking like it does. Something to keep into account in the cropping decisions.

 

At any rate, the original shot, first attachment, had what you needed in more rainbow. There I had the balance I wanted between the gloomy sky and the gloomy sea, and the large rainbow "connected" to the land. In what I have uploaded here, the rainbow got smaller -clouds are really fast- and therefore a tighter crop might be a solution to balance it more. Indeed, the rainbow is already cropped from the bottom by itself in the shadow of the cloud.

You might try Adobe Camera raw. QTL uses it. That's good enough for me :o)

 

http://www.terragalleria.com/photography/tech.html

 

Definitely post a question in the digital darkroom forum. Your problem will get more answers there than the photo critique forum.

David, of course you were ... ;-) I knew it when I visited your portfolio ... but at the moment, just in doubt ... ;-)

 

Salvatore, I will come back on this particular thread later on, I have been really busy lately.

 

Write you soon.

beautiful creative , cheers Jana