Up for Review...

[Trav-man]

This is my first attempt at displaying a photo for critique. It was taken a couple years back with my old Nikon Coolpix 885 (R.I.P.). I have since then upgraded to a Canon Rebel XT with just the 18-55mm kit lens for now.



It was taken at sunset in the auto mode. It is of 2 fishermen on the Li River in China, on a small bamboo raft.

[Gunsotsu]

Beautiful image!

Maybe just a tad bit dark.

[googlit]

ditto. great capture, but a touch dark. it works well in b&w.

[deck]

I like b&w and I like that shot

[mdwsta4]

i really like the image even though it breaks the rule of thirds. just goes to show some rules are meant to be broken

[hitkaiser]

Lovely, like the others said before, its a bit too dark

[ChristianJames]

Very nice, and not too dark. If you crop some of the bottom off it would look much better IMHO.

[Trav-man]

Thanks for all the comments, I thought about changing how dark it is, but kept it the way it is to keep the contrast between the men and the reflection of the sunset on the water. It originally was in color, this is the B&W conversion.

I think I'll try to adjust the lightness of it and see how it turns out.

[Fraggleroxer]

i think what makes it look so dark is that first layer of background. its pretty much silluetted. i "opened" up the shadows in photoshop, so there is some data there to lighten it up. i would try to just lighten up that first layer of "hills"

nice capture. i think the range of tones looks real nice..

;-)

zach

[Englishteacher]

I like it just the way it is. It really looks better in the large size on the flickr site. The background layer points to the fishermen which makes the rule of thirds exception work. The forground emphasizes the loneliness of the "trade". I like it.