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I'm going to try to be courteously critical of these shots.
The subject in all of them is just a blinding sun.
sennin wrote:
In this image, there's a very very busy foreground that isn't visually appealing. In the background is a potentially lovely water and landscape, but we see almost no color either natural or sunset-bathed because the sun is glaring and obscuring half of the photo. I have no doubt this is what it looked like when you were there, but it's a tough picture to look at because there's nothing interesting to look at, other than a huge sun that hurts my eyes
sennin wrote:
This one is better, but has the same problems as the first. The colors are just totally void IMO. There's a potentially beautiful sky, but the angle is focused more on the water, which is potentially beautiful as well...but not enough focus on that area either. The wooden pilings are an interesting subject, but, they're not the focus either. It's like you have a countertop of great ingredients that were just tossed into a pan, but nothing was enhanced by anything else. It was all dumped into the pot at the same time. I think if you focused more on any of these subjects and used the sun as less of a subject and more of a lighting aid (side angle perhaps), it would have been a knockout.
sennin wrote:
Probably the most potential of them all, but it's all obscured again by the sun. There's no color drawing your eyes away from this huge flash in your face.
I'd suggest turning away from the sun, rather than taking photos directly into it. It makes your colors go all-a-screwy.
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