Cement Pilings

[Karm Redland]

Comments welcomed.



karm

[Wavelength]

Winner Takes all

[Karm Redland]

Wavelength, only in a zero sum game.

karm

[Digital]

Interesting composition Karm.


Bruce

[FootLoose]

I think this subject has a lot of potential, Karm, but it isn't working for me at the moment. I think you need to get in a lot closer and isolate one or two of those pylons. Get a bit of focus on around the water level and the shells, maybe. Even just cropping down to the 2nd horizontal row of beams -- which removes all the grass -- improves the composition for me.

[jamn4ex]

I like Gregs idea of the crop. I held an envelope over the top 1/2 and this becomes more of an abstract sort. Theres a lot of interest here but seems a little busy.

[Karm Redland]

Thanks Bruce.

Greg and James, I tried crops that got in close and I didn't care for them. I can see getting rid of the grass in the background and I also see lobbing off various other parts of the top of the pilings. I admit that I struggled with this crop. Nothing really jumps out at me. I also like the image's potential but I'm having difficulty settling on something. That's one reason I posted this image to see what others thought.

karm

[deetheturk]

Nice image Karm,love the reflections!

[Karm Redland]

Thanks David.

karm

[shreds]

Karm,

Difficult one this. I would crop at the tidemark on the concrete, but its a shame that all the full length reflections then don't go all the way down.

[Karm Redland]

Ian, in the original image the reflections do go all the way down. I cut them off. The image seemed too elongated with the full reflection. I'll revisit the image and see if your suggestion has appeal to me. Thanks.

karm

[Wavelength]

Forgive me for the freedom i take; after reading all these i felt like doing a trim work;please bear with me

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Regards

[FrankMi]

Comments welcomed.

I can see why this grabbed your attention Karm. It has a number of interesting aspects and I feel that there is a real winner there but you will likely need to work the scene a bit more to coax the best out of it.

If you can, you might just want to return for a reshoot, trying different angles, lighting, and maybe even different weather conditions while letting the composition speak to you of what it was that attracted you to stop and photograph this scene.

[Karm Redland]

Wavelength, no, I don't mind you playing with my image. I think your rendition captures the spirit of many of the suggestions given. It still seems to be missing something.

Frank, I agree that it has a lot of potential. The image I showed is already heavily cropped. What I'm showing is what I found to be the best of all potential crops I tried. I'm going to let it rest and return to the original image and rework it from scratch. Maybe there's not enough there to make a good photograph. I appreciate all the suggestions given.

karm