It's just too grey!

[Sterling]

Conventional photo wisdom says that when skies are grey you should tighten up on your subject and attempt to minimize the amount of blown out grey/white sky. Bright white featureless skies really are a scourge of photographers everywhere.

[rockyjack]

[gnownad]

Originally Posted by windrider86

Could you post your exif info?

Oops, I forgot about that! I'll edit the first post to include it.

Originally Posted by leviathan

Gnownad, what a great location with such an interesting subject to capture. With how it is currently composed, it lacks a definitive subjective to initially grab the viewer's attention. From what I see, the boat would make a fantastic subject. If the boat were framed, for example, in the lower left or right third, it will create a more aesthetically pleasing balance to the image and allow the viewer to be grabbed by the boat and then continue exploring the quant town. Hope this might help. You could also boost the saturation and contrast a bit, which might help the colors and tones stand out a tad more.

Cool, thanks for the tips! I'll keep them in mind when I go back for another shot!

Originally Posted by romas13

Hey gnownad!
As you already mentioned weather doesn't help picture. You need shadows to get better feel of perspective. I would also suggest to zoom in or crop picture so you get boat closer and more detail on bridge and to loose the scaffolding. You also suggested bringing horizon on third which seems good idea for composition but be careful with converging verticals. You can fix that in PP.
But I'm new here and so I'm not really experienced and I could be wrong.

Important is that we all try our best as often as possible (-:

Thanks for your tips too- I'll think about them while recomposing! I might try a little photoshop too