Seaside Pier

[Andrew Thatcher]

Any thoughts and comments on this Photo. Cheers.

[Tinka]

[QUOTE=Andrew Thatcher;6090]Any thoughts and comments on this Photo. Cheers.

Hi Andrew,
A terrific image and a great viewpoint, love the stormy out look, could do with a bit of Zap though, it looks flat on my monitor, could try adjusting the levels and/or curves a bit?
Nice work.

[Archangel]

Originally Posted by Andrew Thatcher

Any thoughts and comments on this Photo. Cheers.

Hi Andrew,

The photo is nice. If you could have avoided (or cropped different) that little visible part of the ground on the bottom left then we wouldn't be able to understand from where you took the photo

It could have been taken while you were on a little boat sailing across the Pier


Regards

George

[joefoto]

I like the play of light between the blue sky above and the sunset-rain on the horizon. The pier seems to lead my eye out of the picture (According to RULE #67.A.1 subsection b-), but what are rules for except to acknowledge when they have been broken. Good shot.

Joe

[Bearface]

Originally Posted by Andrew Thatcher

Any thoughts and comments on this Photo. Cheers.

Compositionally it certainly works for me. It's intriguing and it flows nicely, which is half the battle

It looks (please correct me if I'm mistaken) as if you've used a highlight/shadow recovery function in order to retrieve some detail from the original. Nothing at all wrong with that, but in this case it's left you with a image largely biased towards midtones - particularly in the sky and upper section of the pier itself. It definitely needs more contrast to give it the punch that (I feel) it needs, so I'd probably be using the curves tool - selectively - to address that. I'd be tempted to straighten the left verticals too, but that's entirely down to personal taste.

Otherwise it's great. Something a little different, which is definitely a compliment

[Josh Bear]

Great composition and lots to grab attention, but as has been mentioned the picture is lacking punch in the light or colours. Pretty sure its not my monitor.

Best regards

Josh

[Andrew Thatcher]

Thanks for your thoughts guys i'll do a regig of it soon.

[Stephen]

Andrew, I don't think you ever mentioned if you had used the S/H tool on this image. If you did use it, I was wondering if the Photomatix tonemapping plugin may have given a more contrasty and punchy result

[Pops]

The sky is the best part for me. A real mix of moods.
Now if you could just clone out the pier :-)

[Andrew Thatcher]

Originally Posted by Stephen

Andrew, I don't think you ever mentioned if you had used the S/H tool on this image. If you did use it, I was wondering if the Photomatix tonemapping plugin may have given a more contrasty and punchy result

I used the stand alone Photomatix. just dont think i done a very good job on it will try it again soon.

[guymclaren]

Andrew Its a little dark and oppressive. I am not qualified to comment on technique, I like the composition. Maybe fiddle with levels.