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Fine, it's a gold triangle that does nothing for me rather than a white one that does nothing for me ;-). Not sure it makes a lot of difference.

 

My comment was sort of deliberately extreme. Though it really doesn't move me, apparently a lot of people do like it, one or two of whom I have enough experience with to value their opinion. Though I don't think artistic value can be determined by popularity (or else J Lo would have to be simultaneously the best musician and actress alive) I'm willing to believe there's value here I just don't get. It certainly wouldn't be the first time, and even I might think differently about it if I saw a big print.

 

 

 

 

I like the composition a lot! The light isn't the most attractive in the world, but I still think it's a good photo.

Get closer and simplify. This is a very busy photo and the center of interest takes up a very tiny portion of the frame.

 

For what it's worth, I read an article that quoted Hemingway's son as saying that they never had cats in Key West, but only in Cuba, and that a lot of the other stories the tour guides tell are wrong too!

I agree: it's definitely a stronger shot if you crop off the foreground and some of the sky. And yeah, a sunset beach shot is going to be cliche, but we all take them anyway.

Carlos, you're entitled to your opinion, but if I'm saying I don't like it out of jealousy maybe you'd like to explain why I've posted positive comments about quite a few photos here as well.

 

Believe it or not, your opinion is not fact. Neither is mine. If I thought it were, I'd post that this photo reduces to not much more than an uninteresting white triangle surrounded by not much of anything and represents a very lackluster image of what must have been a very impressive sight in person. I'd say that anyone who likes it is fundamentally hopeless when it comes to thinking visually.

 

But it's just my opinion.

 

I don't think it's anything special. I don't like the underexposed foreground, and the dead-center mountain makes it very static.

The light is nice, but to me the sky ruins it. If you'd shot from a higher angle to eliminate it you would have had a much simpler composition.

*Definitely* crop out the ground to simplify it and make it more abstract. Otherwise, nice shot.

It doesn't do a thing for me. At least your horizon is very level, though.

I think a little too much of the image area is wasted on featureless black shadows, reducing its impact. Not that it's a bad photo, but these slot canyons are so exceptionally photogenic I think you have to raise the bar a notch.

I like it! Simplicity generally is best.

Pretty good, I think. Maybe the upper jellyfish could have used a little more light, but it's an interesting image.

I don't like it. A lot of indecipherable clutter that doesn't really add up to anything.

I think the composition could be better. Generally lines that lead the eye outside the frame are bad news, and that's just what you have by cutting off the boat at both ends. I also want to see more of the boat. To me this says "here's an interesting silhouette" but then cuts it off to the point that it's not interesting any more.

I don't think it's a successful photo, but not because the detail is distracting. If the shadow were completely black it wouldn't be interesting silhouette either. The real problem is that most of the frame isn't contributing anything to the image.

I sort of like it for some reason, but think it would have been better if the closest image could have been in focus rather than the furthest one. As it is my eye has a hard time deciding what to look at.

I wish I'd taken this.

Very nice. Wish I could see it larger!

Portraits need to show the subject's eyes clearly and prominently or else you lose any sense of contact with the subject.

Not a bad little pattern shot.