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I welcome constructive comments. Thanks.

George-

 

Congratulations. It's very hard to capture the wildness of a storm on a flat photo or flat screen. The waves alone, the seagull alone, the black clouds alone wouldn't do it. You managed to put all the right elements together - including the windswept figure in the foreground. Beautiful work.

 

Best wishes,

Peter.

Lovely detail, texture, lighting. Congratulations.

Peter.

Super work - Congratulations.

Peter.

All comments are welcome. Thanks.

Thanks for any comments!

Bravo, Josephine,

 

That's a keeper.

 

Peter.

Roger, lovely lighting, lovely colours, great composition.

Best, Peter.

Hi Dave,

 

What I like about this is not just the execution and the great results, but the originality of the idea. Well done.

- Peter.

Peo- congratulations, the umbrella background of cherubs is a great touch and made me chuckle. Very nice work. - Peter.

Kay - Congratulations - this is riveting.

 

As a totally minor thought - there's a lot of empty space on the viewers left (subject's right) - would cropping tighter on that side do anything for you? I'm hesitant to suggest any change because its a great portrait no matter how you present it - but on the chance you might have fun with the idea there it is.

Regards, Peter.

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

I know I'm repeating what others have said but what a gorgeous shot! The moment is perfect, the crispness is stunning and colours are spot on.

 

Congratulations.

 

Peter.

All critiques are welcome - Thanks for your

help/insight/suggestions/reactions

 

- Peter

All critiques are welcome

 

I've thought a lot about this one and, for me, if it works, its

because of 2 elements - the flow of the diagonal line (the rope) and

the small range of colours - a clash of different colours often seems

less attractive to me in a photo then a limited palette. I know

little about the theory of this so maybe this is old news or maybe

its heresy?

 

Thanks for the thoughts.

 

Peter.

Thanks in advance for your critique - I welcome it. I'll also mention

I'm finding my image quality slightly impacted by the photonet

restrictions on file size - if anyone wants to look at a slightly

higher res image there is one at

http://www.staadecker.com/psimage6.htm

 

Thanks again. Peter.

Brian, you've heard it from me before, but let me add it in writing here - I haven't found a photo yet on photo.net that I find more impressive and riveting than this one. Congratulations.

Thanks to all who took the time to comment or rank "scuba diving with cats", thanks even to my friend, colleague and prankster Pat who tried to stimulate the cat vs dog debate. Given the extreme ends of the ranking scale appearing you may have succeeded!

 

Tris: I share your dislike for obtrusive advertisment. In this case I needed a border of solid colour above the photo and found that a poster effect with name and title worked well (for me anyway). I also like cursive writing.

 

Mike: thanks for the comments about depth of field vs montage.

 

Janice and Dragana: I'm really pleased you liked the cat's expression and took the time to tell me- its what makes me laugh about this whole photo too, and I'm glad it comes across for others.

 

Syed - thanks for the encouragement and when you get a publisher lined up please email me and we'll talk further about your book plans and this photo.