Beached

[The_Traveler]

 

[The_Traveler]

 

[zombiesniper117 16]

Love the DOF on this one. Really nice isolation.

 

[spiralout462]

Excellent. Interesting composition and lovely detail!

 

[The_Traveler]

It was very bright out thus small aperture and great DOF.
To fix this, I masked the boat, slid in another background, duplicated the new background, lens blurred one of the copies of the background then gradient masked the blurred copy so that the clear background showed through closer so it looked natural even at 100%

Took more time to select the boat with all the wires and stuff than to do everything else.

showing selected boat and footings in Quick Mask mode.

 

[Mike Lamb]

Good stuff. I like the pasted darker snowy backgound with the shed but might make the BG more out of focus.

 

[JBes97]

Very cool! Something about the symmetry of the image really pleases me.

 

[jcdeboever]

Outstanding composition lesson. Well done.

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[The_Traveler]

I imagine that the size of the gaps is due to shrinkage from being out of the water for a long time.
Much of what looks like oakum is gone and from the crap field around the boat, it probably hasn't had much activity in a while.

These are two vintage boats that have been rehabilitated and are used for whale watching out of the port of Husavik, quite a bit further North, about 40 k from the Arctic Circle and in the mouth of a wide fjors that lets out into what I think is the Arctic Ocean.

Husavik and the Island of Grimsey are prime whale-watching venues.

 

[The_Traveler]

This was a boat up on shore for repair.

And immediately next to it is a boat enclosed in a plastic barrier, I guess, against the never-ending wind. That long black tube is probably used to steam planks so they will bend for hull repair.)
At the bottom of the picture is a long bin that held planks.