First Whipping of Beach

[awmphoto]

http://awmphoto.smugmug.com/photos/139414518-M.jpg

Picture taken this weekend up near Traverse City in MI while I time off from a leadership confrence. Slight touch up in PS but uncropped. First whipping so please feel free to let me know your opinions. Thanks.

[GudniB]

Right...

- The reeds on the right hand side are over exposed.
- I feel the eye is lead into the picture and then away to the left as the shore line curves but there is no point of interest on the left handside.

A person walking into the frame from the left would add a focal point and give some sense of scale.

- There are some dust spots visible in the sky on the left.
- I'd have placed the horizon on the upper third and tried to include more foreground interest.
- I'd have been tempted to use an 81b to warm the image and a polarizer to saturate the colours and darken the sky.

Sorry if this is all a bit negative only I've got a cold and I'm not happy about it!

[awmphoto]

Thanks I appreciate your comments and agree fully, I hadn't noticed the dust spot there and I appreciate it. I also agree that it would have helped the image to have an object of intrest near the left of the image, such as person.

[Gary Glass]

I think your photo lacks a thematic focus. Why did you take it? What's it about? To me it just looks like an unspectacular angle on a rather dreary shore on a very bright day. That's probably not what you were going for! So what is it?

[awmphoto]

I think your photo lacks a thematic focus. Why did you take it? What's it about? To me it just looks like an unspectacular angle on a rather dreary shore on a very bright day. That's probably not what you were going for! So what is it?

Sorry it took so long to get back to you on this, but school has been super busy and tennis season just started. I took this picture because I was trying to capture a place that I knew that I would likely never would see again. My intentions were to capture my mood at the time I was there, which was relaxed and just kinda mellow. I tried to incoporate that into the picture but I see now that my angle and lighting were a bit off. Do you have any suggestions on how I could improve the image?

Thanks for your opinion too!

[Mike02]

Too overexposed.... if you shot in raw, or even jpeg, I'd darken the highlights a little... otherwise mediocre composition.

Next time you're there, I'd take multiple exposures, and also try some different angles or lenses =p.