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05/17/2003 03:33:41 AM |
Hi Lawrence - Critique Club
A few minor points first: there's a slight quality issue (and I mean slight) but it's having aneffect here. There's so much detail in the shot that you really need to use every bit of the available image size, and entering at 100Kb isn't doing yourself any favours. That's probably what's causing the slightly blurry, slightly out of fcus look here, I think.
The light is also not helping you: you've chosen a time of day when the sky is very bright relative to the land, and obviously in order to get some definition in the buildings you've lost most of the definition in the sky. I wonder if the other end of the day might have been more effective - it seems like the light is beind the buildings here, so perhaps sunrise time (if this is sunset) would have lit across the front of the buildings more.
In composition terms ... well, there's such a lot of it to squeeze into the image - I'm not sure that you wouldn't have gained some definition overall by taking the two tallest buildings as you main subjects - we'd still ahev the water, the boats, the sky, but the great quality of the light reflected in the buildings would be more prominent, and you could lose the clutter around the right hand side of the harbour and that crane. It isn't always necessary to show all of somethng to give the best image of something, if you see what I mean.
Think I'd also have tried to wait and see what happens when there's still light in the sky and the lights in the buildings are coming on.
Nice work though
Ed |
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05/10/2003 04:06:30 PM |
| I spent some fun times there |
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05/09/2003 12:59:51 AM |
| Great city scape. Wish the sky was bluer though. Water is remarkably calm and this is a really neat shot. Good luck |
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05/08/2003 09:52:33 AM |
| As a photo, I think this is nice. As a post card though, I think that the sky is a little bland. especially the upper left. When we think of postcards, we think of the perfect world. Realizing you only had a week to get 'the perfect sky' and weather this time of year doesn't always cooperate, I understand, but think that for a postcard, it should have a more interesting sky. Also, the focus seems just a little soft. Nothing real serious, but I wonder if this could be just a bit sharper. ~Heather~ |
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05/07/2003 08:56:30 AM |
| the buildings, water and boats seem a bit dark, I wish they were brighter so we could see more of their detail. |
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05/06/2003 07:38:19 AM |
| Love the various shades and shapes. Very nice shot. . . and that's comming from a Clevelander too! |
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05/06/2003 01:06:55 AM |
| Now this was either early moring or early evening right? Good capture, very typical postcard-like. It almost seems like a panorama shot. It would have been perfect without those clouds there and a crisp blue sky, but the weather is just luck right? |
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05/05/2003 04:31:30 PM |
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05/05/2003 07:10:31 AM |
| Great city, beautiful area. Love the shot. Nice work. |
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05/04/2003 09:02:46 PM |
| The text on this might have looked better in either the top left or top right corner instead of dead center. The image is nice, but not too many details can be made out. it does have that postcard feel to it though. The blue border seems slightly out of place a white one might have been better. Overall not bad. |
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