Starfish Sunset

[level200]

Hi Guys

I revisited Saltburn on Wednesday and ended up with this shot. Again I'm here to learn so any advice and feedback will be a great help.

Cheers guys
John

[Markulous]

Overall, you've some lovely light and then you've the foreground starfish, the background pier/sunset and they both work well. However, for me, there's a bunch of mid ground with little variation and all the other elements are left centric. I'd be tempted to turn this into a portrait, cropping just to the right of the cloud and, although you end up with the starfish in the middle of the resulting frame, the sun/cloud off balances it sufficiently

[level200]

Great suggestion Mark.

Hows this?



Cheers
John

[Justin McDonald]

love the edit

[Markulous]

Yup! Reckon it looks much better!

[dan123]

Yep it looks great... the first was good.the second even better.....

dan

[ianpinion]

The edit looks better, the composition of the first shot didn't quite work for me, though the colours a great. I think a little more definition in the sand would've helped too.

[MattUK]

Ian, "a little more definition in the sand" how, exactly?

[ianpinion]

Originally Posted by MattUK

Ian, "a little more definition in the sand" how, exactly?

It just looks a little softly focused on my monitor, Matt and no I don't think that's the fault of my monitor..., but I guess you're going to say different!

[MattUK]

Ah, I see. It doesn't look razor sharp, but then again there's no larger version to look at - I just assumed it was the JPG output that softened it up, but perhaps you're right.

John - did you use a hyperfocal distance when focussing / choosing aperture?