Stormy Vacationby
organicComment by snaffles: Greetings from the Critique Club!
A nicely composed shot, great dof and there is a sense of place here, like the sepia...but to my eye the pp is very heavy-handed. Almost looks like you tried to turn the shot into a charcoal sketch. Interesting to see how the commenters see this shot as either a dark and foreboding scene, or as softly lit and pretty!
For a landscape (OK, seascape) your settings look quite high. F.6, fine...but an ISO of 400 and shutter speed of 250 seem better suited to capturing a squirmy child than a largely stationary scene. A tripod would have been a huge help here, as would have going down to your lowest ISO and going to a much, much slower shutter speed. Yes, that would have resulted in blur from scudding clouds and rollings waves...but the pier would have stayed in sharp contrast to both.
Overall, a decent shot, but you might want to think more about the shot and less about how to improve it in pp.
Feel free to PM me with any questions,
Susan
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