Derelict fishing boat

[Rick58]

Boy there's a lot going on in those. I love the textures, contrast and subject but somehow the compositions weren't making me jump out of my chair.

I think it's because there's so much to pull my eye that I'm not sure what to look at, and the pictures feel like "these elements are neat, let me show them to you" and less like "look how I can stitch these neat elements together in an interesting visual way". The former relies almost entirely on the elements themselves and does not hold the interest as well beyond that.

Might just be me though... What do you think?

I think what you are trying to say in a gentle, kind, diplomatic way is, these are record, or snap, shots. You may be right. Would you mount these if you weren't into the sea, ships, boating and particularly working vessels? Maybe, maybe not. I can't really be a fair judge, because I am and I really like these. Then again, I really like my Turners Creek photo and no one else got it so...

 

[KenC]

I'm with Chris on these. My first impression was that they weren't tight enough and were trying to include too much - that and the sky being very uneven in the first. The exposure and contrast seem OK to me; I can see how the mid-tones could be spread out more, but that's really a matter of taste, and I'm not sure I would like that better.

 

[The_Traveler]

Since a picture is worth ten thousand words:

I think Amolitor is saying that while the range of the brightest white to the darkest black is fine, there is too much concentration at both ends and the mid-tones are virtually absent.
There doesn't seem to be a good word for that situation, 'too contrasty' somehow implying too great great a range and not fitting this situation unambiguously.

 

[gsgary]

Had and very quick play got to go out an shoot The Rat Pack at local theatre very soon

 

[Rick58]

Had and very quick play got to go out an shoot The Rat Pack at local theatre very soon

That definitely isn't working for me Gary.

 

[gsgary]

Had and very quick play got to go out an shoot The Rat Pack at local theatre very soon

That definitely isn't working for me Gary.

Or me, got to go and shoot some digital photos now