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[VivianG]

Tell me what's wrong with this composition. Thanks!

http://wisegirl.smugmug.com/photos/28028179-L.jpg

[John Mueller]

I enjoy pics of boats and this is a fine one.
The bag of (shells)? draws my eyes away.
Maybe a crop or clone to do away with them.
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[DeanMcM]

Tell me what's wrong with this composition. Thanks!




Very nice, but I think you need some sky, and maybe make it B&W.
Dean

[pathfinder]

Tell me what's wrong with this composition. Thanks!

http://wisegirl.smugmug.com/photos/28028179-M.jpg


Nice colors, Vivian. I like the diagonal line of the grassy shoreline and the boat's painter played against each other. The diagonals create some dynamics for my eye.

But I think you have to decide if the bag of shells is part of the image or not. Either crop out the shells and concentrate on the boat, or shift the shooting angle slightly to bring the boat and the bag of shells into a more pleasing composition. Leaving the bag of shells half in and half out does not seem to work for me. :dunno

[Higgmeister]

How about what's good and bad about a shot, much better than just what is bad:D.

For the good:
I scrolled the pix down to cut off the shells and I definitely like it better. What this does is put the boat as the central subject with the line leading the eye from the rt corner to the boat. Love the reflection and the floating moss in the foreground; I like the shot overall.

For the bad:
Get rid of the shells as I don't see it adding anything to the shot. It doesn't pop; adding more contrast or brightening up the grass might help this. The light coming from the top center is distraction. I keep looking at it to see what is making it. Some cloning would help here.

Just my .02 worth from an untrained eye,
Chris

[erich6]

In addition to the previous comments, I think the shot would be even better if you had more of the water in the background. I see the boat as "lonely", old and dismissed. Giving it a more expansive background would isolate the subject more and emphasize this feeling. This is just the way I'm seeing it though. The idea is to compose the shot to emphasize the message or feeling you had when you saw the scene.

Erich