Your thoughts please
 

Hi I am new to this digital camera world after packing up my old zenith cameras and giving up photography over 20 yrs ago for work I have put some pics in the Gallery but I have linked one
to this post to see what you think.

Thanks Geoff[IMG]http://media.digitalcameraworld.com/forum/gallery/files/1/5/6/4/8/0/blue_bridge_pw.jpg[/IMG]

I like the idea of the leading line, but can't help but feel as though the thick white line is a bit of a distraction. It's quite dominant. To my eye it makes to bottom left quarter of the photo a bit redundant.
But I like the scene, and you've managed to keep detail in the sky and the foreground. Did you use any filters here?

No, there were no filters used, I took a few of this shot from slightly different angles trying to hide a little of the new sea wall behind the rail, I thought the rail would make a great leed into the photo but as you say the white wall is a little over powering perhaps in a few years it may darken and it may look better in a photo ( 1 to go back to in a few years)

Thanks Geoff

I quite like this shot Geoff but i think I would make even more of the white wall and railings by cropping the right hand side of the image off right up to the blue bridge , this gives more presence to the railings and results in a more abstract look .

Mark

There you go mark hows that does it look any better (it does to me I see what you were saying.

Geoff
[IMG]http://media.digitalcameraworld.com/forum/gallery/files/1/5/6/4/8/0/blue_bridge_pwnew_edit.jpg[/IMG]

For me the rails leads the eye out of the frame and the light is quite flat. As the sky is quite bland and not really adding anything I would crop a large chunk of it out.

Thanks m8 I appriciate what you have said I have got this pic in my list to play around with and experiment with in cs2

Geoff

I certainly prefer it to the original one Geoff but there might be a little too much going on in the background to make a good abstract , looks like a great place to revisit and play around with composition .

Mark

Thank's again; for you thoughts I am taking it in, I will be going back there as it is just down the road from me also there is a lot of work going on down there just behine my position there is a swing bridfe being built.

Geoff

Hi Geoff, have you tried converting the image to black and white and playing with the contrast a little?

Justin