Island Bay Surf

[frisby]

Hi,

Just looking for some feedback on this and wondering in particular about colour and composition.



EXIF:

Camera Nikon D90
Exposure 0.04 sec (1/25)
Aperture f/16.0
Focal Length 13 mm
ISO Speed 200

Cheers,

Fraser

[Mike367]

I'm a little bothered by the surf on the right, it doesn't look level, although the horizon does.

[milosh]

Hello there,

you have a beautiful photo to begin with! I think the colours are fine, they're natural, except that there is a slight blue colour cast present. Removing it would make the water more white. The left portion of your sky is blown out, which makes it draw attention too much. I find the composition to be a bit, how to say it, scattered, uncentered. I see a lot of possible great compositions within this one. I think cropping off the right 1/4th of the image would make it more powerfull (just before your watermark). Did you shoot this in raw? If you did, I think there's a lot to get out from this photo.

[frisby]

Thanks for that.

I've toned the sky down a bit and the colour cast and done some cropping with this as a result:



Thanks for your feedback, Milosh, that was brilliant - cheers,

[milosh]

You're welcome! One more thing, open it in Photoshop (or what ever software you use) and try to apply a slight contrast curve, just to increase that mid tone contrast a bit. I suggest if you have Photoshop, try to apply one of its presets for Curves adjustment layer. I think either Linear Contrast or Medium Contrast preset would be enough to do the trick. You'll see it become more clear.

[frisby]

Awesome tweaked the contrast a bit and it's much clearer. Thanks :-)