Taken on the Jacobite Spirit just before we took off up river for Urquhart Castle. I did auto everything, enhanced the saturation and cropped the sky. Thank you for all your helpful comments.
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This, to my eye, borders on being a very fine photograph but doesn't quite make it. I like some of the compositional quality, though I would perhaps have found a greater dissociation between the near-ground and distance more effective - I'm not sure the anchor links the two areas convincingly enough. The metallic quality of the water is well caught, but then the far bank lets things down for me - neither silhouetted nor defined, it somehow isn't anything at all. Without that far bank - perhaps just the jetty and the anchor, especially the wetness of the jetty, perhaps you might have achieved that rare thing of making a heavily overcast day visually interesting. Nice attempt. 7
Not a composition that realy interests me. It give's me a cold and wet feeling.
It's not realy interesting to me as I see nothing exciting going on.
This is only my opinion, if you like your picture then its a good picture, no matter what others say.
First things first. Your horizon is not level. A leveled horizon helps "solidify" the pic. Next is the issue of composition. You have an extremely busy left side and a plain right side. Sometimes you can pull this off with strong negative space but I don't feel it works too well in this one because the negative space is very busy, or rather, choppy. I really like what's going on at the pier. I wish I could see more detail on the wet dock, etc. Focus and exposure are good. 5.
In my opinion the most impressive part of the image is pushed aside... If the anchor were bigger, and more centered, and shot from an angle where some of it extends into the sky so that the eye can catch the contrast of the metal against the pier, as well as against the sky and find a shape immediately, this short would have been much more focused.
It bothers me that the anchor ends on the shoreline, but not exactly, and I also do not see the reason for so much of the water - being cut off on the other side it does not convey a great depth, it is neither stormy nor calm, and it's color and texture is very much the same throughout the whole picture.
The rocks on the left also seem to me like they would complement the anchor just as well, if not better than the water.
Moreover, the details of the pier, like the little rocks, and the way the wood is cut, and all that is sort of dampenned because of the size of the subject.
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