Lone Sailor, North Charleston

[The Barbarian]

 

[Fujidave]

Bang on and not over done, a well taken image and PP is just right imo.

 

[Braineack]

and here I was going to post the PP is way off... HDR is overcooked and WB is way off.

 

[The Barbarian]

Everyone has a different eye, I guess. But the processing was just enough to get the texture in the bronze that I wanted.

 

[Jeff15]

I like this shot.....

 

[SquarePeg]

I don't know anything about HDR so won't comment on that other than to say I like how the flags look. But on the composition itself, it feels a bit squeezed. I wish there was more room in front of him so he wasn't looking immediately out of the frame and just cutting off that last flag base looks accidental. Was there something there that you were trying to crop out?

 

[The Barbarian]

I don't know anything about HDR so won't comment on that other than to say I like how the flags look. But on the composition itself, it feels a bit squeezed. I wish there was more room in front of him so he wasn't looking immediately out of the frame and just cutting off that last flag base looks accidental. Was there something there that you were trying to crop out?

It's because I broke a rule that's pretty widely accepted. If you have a live subject (or even a representation of one), it's good to have space for him to look into, move into, or whatever.

In this case, I wanted the flags and the sailor in two points of the composition, and I wanted to emphasize the loneliness of a sailor's experience.

So I tightened the composition. I don't think that cutting the base of the flag was of any consequence, but in retrospect, I think I might better have cloned out the block on the lower right.

 

[The Barbarian]

 

[Braineack]

the colors still look way off to me, that's my biggest issue. the whites in the scene are very blue and the tint is red/purple.

and it looks kinda dull; underexposed a bit. The histo agrees with me here:

I'm expecting to see a bright scene, with a huge chunk being sky, yet the histo weighted very heavily to the left.

Here's about where I'd like to see it (although this free online editor didn't adjust WB/Tint well for me):

the composition doesn't bother me at all, but leaving that black shape on the edge of the right frame does

this image does quite well in B&W, fwiw.

 

[ACS64]

"Correct" exposure is not necessarily the objective of every photograph. The right hand image is straight out of any travel brochure whereas the left provokes consideration of those who created this sculpture and installation and their connection to those who sailed the seas. Funny how small things make a difference.
A. C.

 

[The Barbarian]

I try to make the image look the way things were for me. So my work is very subjective. My practice is to make images that please me, and to be relentlessly critical of how well I manage to do that.

 

[ACS64]

I agree with that approach. If a completed image doesn't work the photographer how can it work for anyone else.
A. C.