Making a photograph interesting C&C

[Bee Bee]

For one of my assignments I have to take pretty boring pictures and make them somewhat interesting... this is my first attempt - original picture shown first taken on a dry but somewhat cloudy day. The second picture shows my attempt to make it more interesting...

 

[musicaleCA]

Pretty good. The horizon needs a wee bit more tweaking though.

 

[Bee Bee]

Tweaking in what way? xxx

 

[thenikonguy]

Tweaking in what way? xxx

making it straight (its really slanting to the left..) also you've cut off the building on the left. which kills it for me.. not a fan

 

[Bee Bee]

ah I can easily straighten that up - cutting off the building was intentional as the other beach hut was already cut off xxx

 

[choudhrysaab]

but making it "interesting" takes away that Natural look of it ... is it worth it?

cuz working in Lightroom I can make all kinds of changes to the picture but then I mostly don't because I know thats not why I captured the shot. I captured it because I liked it as I saw it.

 

[Bee Bee]

I totally agree only I have to change these for my assignment - I had to take 20 shots - horizon not level, lighting wrong and all the rest and then try and make the most of them . Usually when I shoot I don't need to do much because I shot it how I wanted xxx

 

[PhotoXopher]

Photoshop in a Great White Shark jumping out of the water with a seal in its mouth.

Or something.

 

[robertwsimpson]

Photoshop in a Great White Shark jumping out of the water with a seal in its mouth.

Or something.

RWQ@

 

[Bee Bee]

If only I was good enough to do that! xxx

 

[c.cloudwalker]

Pretty good. The horizon needs a wee bit more tweaking though.

Agreed.

But my preference would have been to not make any changes to the colors. And I would have cropped the bottom more, to get rid of the green thing advancing into the water. An almost all gray image with just a little bit of red in cabin 3 would make an interesting image to me.

But it's a tough assignment because what is interesting to me may not be be to someone else.

 

[Bee Bee]

Thank you - I guess I just found it a little dark and wanted to portray the feeling of the sun setting? Does that make sense? I am hating this assignment already! xxx

 

[choudhrysaab]

I am hating this assignment already! xxx

don't worry ... you're doing good. for sun setting i guess play around with the color to give it more orange effect.
too bad i don't have PS installed on my work computer or else I'd show you an example.

 

[choudhrysaab]

actually since your pictures are NOT OK to edit so I wouldn't be able to show any example anyways

 

[Bee Bee]

Thanks - I'll keep playing around with it wish we actually had some more orange sunsets round here - they tend to just be quite pinky purple and not all that interesting at the moment! xxx